> -----Original Message----- > From: linux-rdma-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:linux-rdma-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Sagi Grimberg > Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 2015 4:15 AM > To: Christoph Hellwig > Cc: Steve Wise; dledford@xxxxxxxxxx; sagig@xxxxxxxxxxxx; ogerlitz@xxxxxxxxxxxx; roid@xxxxxxxxxxxx; linux-rdma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; > eli@xxxxxxxxxxxx; target-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; linux-nfs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; bfields@xxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: [PATCH V3 1/5] RDMA/core: Transport-independent access flags > > On 7/7/2015 12:00 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 06, 2015 at 07:17:38PM +0300, Sagi Grimberg wrote: > >>> Ok. I'll remove all uses of ib_get_dma_mr()... > >>> > >>> > >> > >> I meant that rdma_get_dma_mr can go away. I'd prefer to get the > >> needed access_flags and just call existing verb. > > > > I strongly disagree. As this series has shown the existing API is not > > epressive enough for all transports. It thus needs to go away and be > > fully replaced by the new API introduced here. > > > > Christoph, > > I wasn't arguing about having a transport independent API. I was > referring to this wrapper specifically that trampolines to > ib_get_dma_mr() with rdma_device_access_flags(pd, roles, attrs) helper. > > The rdma_device_access_flags() itself is fine. However, given that > this helper is used elsewhere as well, I don't see the point of having > yet another helper specifically just for the dma_mr case that does > nothing more than trampolines with a call to rdma_device_access_flags(). > I took the feedback from Christoph and Jason to mean I should remove ib_get_dma_mr() entirely and pull its guts into rdma_get_dma_mr(), and change all the users of ib_get_dma_mr() to use rdma_get_dma_mr(). So the net result isn't a wrapper. It would of course still use rdma_device_access_flags()... Steve. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rdma" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
