Re: [PATCH 0/3] Add gup fast + longterm and use it in HFI1

From: Ira Weiny
Date: Mon Feb 11 2019 - 16:29:29 EST


On Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 12:34:17PM -0800, Davidlohr Bueso wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Feb 2019, ira.weiny@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > Ira Weiny (3):
> > mm/gup: Change "write" parameter to flags
> > mm/gup: Introduce get_user_pages_fast_longterm()
> > IB/HFI1: Use new get_user_pages_fast_longterm()
>
> Out of curiosity, are you planning on having all rdma drivers
> use get_user_pages_fast_longterm()? Ie:
>
> hw/mthca/mthca_memfree.c: ret = get_user_pages_fast(uaddr & PAGE_MASK, 1, FOLL_WRITE, pages);
> hw/qib/qib_user_sdma.c: ret = get_user_pages_fast(addr, j, 0, pages);

I missed that when I change the other qib call to longterm... :-(

Yes both of these should be changed. Although I need to look into Jasons
comment WRT the mthca call.

Ira

>
> Thanks,
> Davidlohr