Re: [PATCHv2] rdma: add a new IB_ACCESS_GIFT flag

Michael S. Tsirkin
2013-04-09T17:39:30Z

On Fri, Apr 05, 2013 at 04:54:39PM -0400, Michael R. Hines wrote:
> To be more specific, here's what I did:
>
> 1. apply kernel module patch - re-insert module
> 1. QEMU does: ibv_reg_mr(........IBV_ACCESS_GIFT | IBV_ACCESS_REMOTE_READ)
> 2. Start the RDMA migration
> 3. Migration completes without any errors
>
> This test does *not* work with a cgroup swap limit, however. The
> process gets killed. (Both with and without GIFT)
>
> - Michael

Try to attach a debugger and see where it is when it gets killed?

> On 04/05/2013 04:43 PM, Roland Dreier wrote:
> >On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 1:17 PM, Michael R. Hines
> ><mrhines@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> >>I also removed the IBV_*_WRITE flags on the sender-side and activated
> >>cgroups with the "memory.memsw.limit_in_bytes" activated and the migration
> >>with RDMA also succeeded without any problems (both with *and* without GIFT
> >>also worked).
> >Not sure I'm interpreting this correctly. Are you saying that things
> >worked without actually setting the GIFT flag? In which case why are
> >we adding this flag?
> >
> > - R.
> >
>