Re: [PATCH net] qed: Free RoCE ILT Memory on rmmod qedr

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On Mon, Mar 05, 2018 at 11:04:11AM +0200, Michal Kalderon wrote:
> Rdma requires ILT Memory to be allocated for it's QPs.
> Each ILT entry points to a page used by several Rdma QPs.
> To avoid allocating all the memory in advance, the rdma
> implementation dynamically allocates memory as more QPs are
> added, however it does not dynamically free the memory.
> The memory should have been freed on rmmod qedr, but isn't.
> This patch adds the memory freeing on rmmod qedr (currently
> it will be freed with qed is removed).
>
> An outcome of this bug, is that if qedr is unloaded and loaded
> without unloaded qed, there will be no more RoCE traffic.
>
> The reason these are related, is that the logic of detecting the
> first QP ever opened is by asking whether ILT memory for RoCE has
> been allocated.
>
> In addition, this patch modifies freeing of the Task context to
> always use the PROTOCOLID_ROCE and not the protocol passed,
> this is because task context for iWARP and ROCE both use the
> ROCE protocol id, as opposed to the connection context.
>
> Fixes: dbb799c39717e7b7

Your fixes line was truncated.

Thanks

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