Re: [PATCH rdma-next 2/6] RDMA/umem: Add ODP type indicator within ib_umem_odp

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On Wed, Aug 07, 2019 at 03:13:35PM +0300, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 07, 2019 at 11:44:16AM +0000, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 07, 2019 at 01:33:59PM +0300, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> > > From: Erez Alfasi <ereza@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > > ODP type can be divided into 2 subclasses:
> > > Explicit and Implicit ODP.
> > >
> > > Adding a type enums and an odp type flag within
> > > ib_umem_odp will give us an indication whether a
> > > given MR is ODP implicit/explicit registered.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Erez Alfasi <ereza@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > >  drivers/infiniband/core/umem.c    |  1 +
> > >  include/rdma/ib_umem_odp.h        | 14 ++++++++++++++
> > >  include/uapi/rdma/ib_user_verbs.h |  5 +++++
> > >  3 files changed, 20 insertions(+)
> >
> > No for this patch, I've got a series cleaning up this
> > implicit/explicit nonsense, and the result is much cleaner than this.
> 
> It doesn't really clean anything, just stores implicit/explicit information.
> 
> >
> > This series will have to wait.
> 
> The information exposed in this series is already available in uverbs,
> so whatever cleanup will come, we still need to expose ODP MR type.
> 
> This patch is tiny part of whole series, why should we block whole
> series and iproute2?

This whole approach is really ugly, I even object to the very idea of
patch #1

The umem is an internal detail and should not be exposed out of the
driver for nldev to use.

Jason



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