Re: [RFC PATCH v4 0/2] RDMA/rxe: Add dma-buf support

[Shunsuke Mie]

Hi maintainers,

Could you please review this patch series?

Regards,
Shunsuke Mie

2021年11月22日(月) 20:08 Shunsuke Mie <mie@xxxxxxxxxx>:
>
> This patch series add a dma-buf support for rxe driver.
>
> A dma-buf based memory registering has beed introduced to use the memory
> region that lack of associated page structures (e.g. device memory and CMA
> managed memory) [1]. However, to use the dma-buf based memory, each rdma
> device drivers require add some implementation. The rxe driver has not
> support yet.
>
> [1] https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-rdma/msg98592.html
>
> To enable to use the dma-buf memory in rxe rdma device, add some changes
> and implementation in this patch series.
>
> This series consists of two patches. The first patch changes the IB core
> to support for rdma drivers that has not dma device. The secound patch adds
> the dma-buf support to rxe driver.
>
> Related user space RDMA library changes are provided as a separate patch.
>
> v4:
> * Fix warnings, unused variable and casting
> v3: https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-rdma/msg106776.html
> * Rebase to the latest linux-rdma 'for-next' branch (5.15.0-rc6+)
> * Fix to use dma-buf-map helpers
> v2: https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-rdma/msg105928.html
> * Rebase to the latest linux-rdma 'for-next' branch (5.15.0-rc1+)
> * Instead of using a dummy dma_device to attach dma-buf, just store
>   dma-buf to use software RDMA driver
> * Use dma-buf vmap() interface
> * Check to pass tests of rdma-core
> v1: https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-rdma/msg105376.html
> * The initial patch set
> * Use ib_device as dma_device.
> * Use dma-buf dynamic attach interface
> * Add dma-buf support to rxe device
>
> Shunsuke Mie (2):
>   RDMA/umem: Change for rdma devices has not dma device
>   RDMA/rxe: Add dma-buf support
>
>  drivers/infiniband/core/umem_dmabuf.c |  20 ++++-
>  drivers/infiniband/sw/rxe/rxe_loc.h   |   2 +
>  drivers/infiniband/sw/rxe/rxe_mr.c    | 113 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  drivers/infiniband/sw/rxe/rxe_verbs.c |  34 ++++++++
>  include/rdma/ib_umem.h                |   1 +
>  5 files changed, 166 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
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> 2.17.1
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