Re: FMR Support in multi-function environment

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Hi,

> no, the proprietary FMRs are not supported for mlx4 VFs, nor for mlx5 both
> PF/VFs
> use the fast reg API, see for example this commit 5587856 "IB/iser:
> Introduce fast memory registration model (FRWR)" how this is done. The API
> was introduced in commit  00f7ec3 "RDMA/core: Add memory management
> extensions support"
>

Thanks so much for the detailed information. This is very much helpful.
I will go through these.


Best Regards,
Bob

On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 11:55 AM, Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 11/10/2014 4:28 PM, Bob Biloxi wrote:
>>
>> Suppose a VF driver wants to register large amount of memory using
>> FMR, will it be able to do so using the mlx4 code.
>
>
> no, the proprietary FMRs are not supported for mlx4 VFs, nor for mlx5 both
> PF/VFs
>
>>
>> Or FMR is supported only in dedicated mode?
>
>
> use the fast reg API, see for example this commit 5587856 "IB/iser:
> Introduce fast memory registration model (FRWR)" how this is done. The API
> was introduced in commit  00f7ec3 "RDMA/core: Add memory management
> extensions support"
>
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