Re: [PATCH 0/8 v1] Remove FMR support from RDMA drivers

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On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 10:26:37AM -0400, Dennis Dalessandro wrote:
> On 5/19/2020 10:19 AM, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> > On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 10:53:52AM -0300, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > > On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 09:43:14AM -0400, Dennis Dalessandro wrote:
> > > > On 5/18/2020 2:10 PM, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > > > > On Mon, May 18, 2020 at 11:20:04AM -0400, Dennis Dalessandro wrote:
> > > > > > On 5/14/2020 8:02 AM, Max Gurtovoy wrote:
> > > > > > > This series removes the support for FMR mode to register memory. This ancient
> > > > > > > mode is unsafe and not maintained/tested in the last few years. It also doesn't
> > > > > > > have any reasonable advantage over other memory registration methods such as
> > > > > > > FRWR (that is implemented in all the recent RDMA adapters). This series should
> > > > > > > be reviewed and approved by the maintainer of the effected drivers and I
> > > > > > > suggest to test it as well.
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > The tests that I made for this series (fio benchmarks and fio verify data):
> > > > > > > 1. iSER initiator on ConnectX-4
> > > > > > > 2. iSER initiator on ConnectX-3
> > > > > > > 3. SRP initiator on ConnectX-4 (loopback to SRP target)
> > > > > > > 4. SRP initiator on ConnectX-3
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > Not tested:
> > > > > > > 1. RDS
> > > > > > > 2. mthca
> > > > > > > 3. rdmavt
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > This will effectively kill qib which uses rdmavt. It's gonna have to be a
> > > > > > NAK from me.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Are you objecting the SRP and iSER changes too?
> > > > 
> > > > No, just want to keep basic verbs support at least. NFS already dropped,
> > > > similarly we are ok with dropping it from SRP/iSER as a next step.
> > > 
> > > So you see a major user in RDS for qib?
> > 
> > Didn't we agree to drop it from RDS too?
> > 
> 
> Just basic verbs application support is enough for qib I think. I don't see
> any major use of RDS.

Well, once the in-kernel users of an API are gone that API will be
purged. This is standard kernel policy.

So you can't NAK this series on the grounds you want to keep an API
without users, presumably for out of tree modules...

Jason



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