On 11/30/22 18:41, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > On Wed, Nov 30, 2022 at 06:36:56PM -0600, Bob Pearson wrote: >> I'm not looking at my patch you responded to but the one you posted to replace maps >> by xarrays. > > I see, I botched that part > >> The existing rxe driver assumes that if ibmr->type == IB_MR_TYPE_DMA >> that the iova is just a kernel (virtual) address that is already >> mapped. > > No, it is not correct > >> Maybe this is not correct but it has always worked this way. These >> are heavily used by storage stacks (e.g. Lustre) which always use >> DMA mr's. Since we don't actually do any DMAs we don't need to setup >> the iommu for these and just do memcpy's without dealing with pages. > > You still should be doing the kmap > > Jason Does this have to do with 32 bit machines? I have always tested on 64 bit machines and dma mr's are always already mapped. Bob
