RE: [PATCH v3 rdma-next 08/10] RDMA/nldev: provide detailed MR information

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> 
> On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 06:19:34PM -0600, Steve Wise wrote:
> 
> > But the rdma devices do support a range of page sizes, and the intent of
> > ib_mr.page_size was to express what page_size is being used for that MR.
> 
> I think reporting a min & max page size used in the actual physical
> hardware could be useful, but as you noticed the internal page size
> thing is pretty useless.
> 
> The drivers aggregate larger pages on their own based on their own
> internal capability, so new reporting would need driver changes.

The device supported page sizes are advertised already via
ib_device_attr.page_size_cap, which is a bit mask of supported page sizes.

Steve.




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