Re: RDMA subsystem namespace related questions (was Re: Finding the namespace of a struct ib_device)

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On Mon, Oct 12, 2020 at 04:20:40PM +0800, Ka-Cheong Poon wrote:
> On 10/9/20 11:34 PM, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> 
> > Yes, because namespaces are fundamentally supposed to be anchored in
> > the processes inside the namespace.
> > 
> > Having the kernel jump in and start opening holes as soon as a
> > namespace is created is just wrong.
> > 
> > At a bare minimum the listener should not exist until something in the
> > namespace is willing to work with RDS.
> 
> 
> As I mentioned in a previous email, starting is not the problem.  It
> is the problem of deleting a namespace.

Starting and ending are symmetric. When the last thing inside the
namespace stops needing RDS then RDS should close down the cm_id's.

Jason



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