Re: [PATCH RFC rdma-core 0/5] Add thread domain support

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On Sun, Nov 12, 2017 at 11:41:38PM +0200, Yishai Hadas wrote:
> This RFC series is based on some initial discussion that was in the mailing
> list to support resource domain.
> 
> The series includes detailed man pages of the suggested APIs and initial
> patches in both verbs and mlx5 driver to demonstrate the expected usage.
> 
> The motivation behind the series is to allow an application finer
> grain control over share hardware resources and locks when the
> resources are used by the same thread.

I think I'm basically fine with this approach.

It is weird trade off to have a ibv_pd have two roles, but this seems
like the least bad option when compared with revising every single
ABI.

I assume you'll also add a create_cq_ex to accept a PD instead of a
device?

Jason
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