Re: [PATCH rdma-next 08/10] RDMA/uverbs: Add new relaxed ordering memory region access flag

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On Wed, Jan 08, 2020 at 08:05:38PM +0200, Yishai Hadas wrote:
> From: Michael Guralnik <michaelgur@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Adding new relaxed ordering access flag for memory regions.
> Using memory regions with relaxed ordeing set can enhance performance.
> 
> This access flag is handled in a best-effort manner, drivers should
> ignore if they don't support setting relaxed ordering.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Michael Guralnik <michaelgur@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Yishai Hadas <yishaih@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>  include/rdma/ib_verbs.h                 | 1 +
>  include/uapi/rdma/ib_user_ioctl_verbs.h | 1 +
>  2 files changed, 2 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/include/rdma/ib_verbs.h b/include/rdma/ib_verbs.h
> index ffb358f..2b3c16f 100644
> +++ b/include/rdma/ib_verbs.h
> @@ -1418,6 +1418,7 @@ enum ib_access_flags {
>  	IB_ZERO_BASED = IB_UVERBS_ACCESS_ZERO_BASED,
>  	IB_ACCESS_ON_DEMAND = IB_UVERBS_ACCESS_ON_DEMAND,
>  	IB_ACCESS_HUGETLB = IB_UVERBS_ACCESS_HUGETLB,
> +	IB_ACCESS_RELAXED_ORDERING = IB_UVERBS_ACCESS_RELAXED_ORDERING,
>  
>  	IB_ACCESS_OPTIONAL = IB_UVERBS_ACCESS_OPTIONAL_RANGE,
>  	IB_ACCESS_SUPPORTED =
> diff --git a/include/uapi/rdma/ib_user_ioctl_verbs.h b/include/uapi/rdma/ib_user_ioctl_verbs.h
> index 76dbbd9..2a165f4 100644
> +++ b/include/uapi/rdma/ib_user_ioctl_verbs.h
> @@ -54,6 +54,7 @@ enum ib_uverbs_access_flags {
>  	IB_UVERBS_ACCESS_ON_DEMAND = 1 << 6,
>  	IB_UVERBS_ACCESS_HUGETLB = 1 << 7,
>  
> +	IB_UVERBS_ACCESS_RELAXED_ORDERING = IB_UVERBS_ACCESS_OPTIONAL_FIRST,
>  	IB_UVERBS_ACCESS_OPTIONAL_RANGE =
>  		((IB_UVERBS_ACCESS_OPTIONAL_LAST << 1) - 1) &
>  		~(IB_UVERBS_ACCESS_OPTIONAL_FIRST - 1)

I would like to see a followup patch to add the DMA_ATTR_WEAK_ORDERING
setting to ib_umem_get when RELAXED_ORDERING is set.

Jason



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