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

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> From: Leon Romanovsky [mailto:leon@xxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Monday, March 05, 2018 11:41 AM
> To: Kalderon, Michal <Michal.Kalderon@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; netdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; dledford@xxxxxxxxxx;
> jgg@xxxxxxxxxxxx; linux-rdma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Elior, Ariel
> <Ariel.Elior@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: [PATCH net] qed: Free RoCE ILT Memory on rmmod qedr
> 
> 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
Thanks  for noticing, sending V2
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