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From: "Pearson, Robert B" <robert.pearson2@hpe.com>
To: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>
Cc: Md Haris Iqbal <haris.phnx@gmail.com>,
	"linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org" <linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org>,
	"zyjzyj2000@gmail.com" <zyjzyj2000@gmail.com>,
	"aleksei.marov@ionos.com" <aleksei.marov@ionos.com>,
	"leon@kernel.org" <leon@kernel.org>,
	"haris.iqbal@ionos.com" <haris.iqbal@ionos.com>,
	"jinpu.wang@ionos.com" <jinpu.wang@ionos.com>,
	"rpearsonhpe@gmail.com" <rpearsonhpe@gmail.com>
Subject: RE: [PATCH] RDMA/rxe: For invalidate compare keys according to the MR access
Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2022 18:47:54 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <MW4PR84MB23074C9D7F136278F37FD7FEBCBB9@MW4PR84MB2307.NAMPRD84.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220629184432.GW23621@ziepe.ca>

> > > If the rkey's and lkeys are always the same why do we store them twice in the mr ?
> > 
> > They are not always the same currently. If you request remote access they are the same if you don't rkey is set to zero.
> > You could, of course, check both the keys and the access bits but that is not the way it is written currently.

> Storing the rkey instead of checking the flags seems like a weird obfuscation to me..

> Jason

One always has the choice to always just use the lkey and check the flags. But referring the rkey just uses one memory reference 😊

  reply	other threads:[~2022-06-29 18:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-06-29 16:49 [PATCH] RDMA/rxe: For invalidate compare keys according to the MR access Md Haris Iqbal
2022-06-29 17:20 ` haris iqbal
2022-06-29 18:34 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2022-06-29 18:40   ` Pearson, Robert B
2022-06-29 18:44     ` Jason Gunthorpe
2022-06-29 18:47       ` Pearson, Robert B [this message]
2022-07-05  9:28         ` haris iqbal
2022-07-05 13:59           ` Jason Gunthorpe
2022-07-06  3:41             ` haris iqbal
2022-07-06 16:39               ` Jason Gunthorpe
2022-07-07  7:32                 ` haris iqbal

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