On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 10:38:22AM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > scheme specific to RDMA which seems like a waste to me when we can > > generically signal an event on the fd for any event that effects any > > of the vma's on the file. The FL_LAYOUT lease impacts the entire file, > > so as far as I can see delaying the notification until MR-init is too > > late, too granular, and too RDMA specific. > > But for RDMA a FD is not what we care about - we want the MR handle so > the app knows which MR needs fixing. Yes. Although the fd for the ibX device might be a good handle to transport that information, unlike the fd for the mapped file.
