Re: [PATCH rdma-next] RDMA/restrack: Delay QP deletion till all users are gone

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On Sun, Apr 25, 2021 at 08:38:57PM +0300, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 25, 2021 at 02:22:54PM -0300, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > On Sun, Apr 25, 2021 at 04:44:55PM +0300, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> > > > > The proposed prepare/abort/finish flow is much harder to implement correctly.
> > > > > Let's take as an example ib_destroy_qp_user(), we called to rdma_rw_cleanup_mrs(),
> > > > > but didn't restore them after .destroy_qp() failure.
> > > > 
> > > > I think it is a bug we call rdma_rw code in a a user path.
> > > 
> > > It was an example of a flow that wasn't restored properly. 
> > > The same goes for ib_dealloc_pd_user(), release of __internal_mr.
> > > 
> > > Of course, these flows shouldn't fail because of being kernel flows, but it is not clear
> > > from the code.
> > 
> > Well, exactly, user flows are not allowed to do extra stuff before
> > calling the driver destroy
> > 
> > So the arrangement I gave is reasonable and make sense, it is
> > certainly better than the hodge podge of ordering that we have today
> 
> I thought about simpler solution - move rdma_restrack_del() before .destroy() 
> callbacks together with attempt to readd res object if destroy fails.

Is isn't simpler, now add can fail and can't be recovered

Jason



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