Re: [PATCHv12 1/3] rdmacg: Added rdma cgroup controller

[Jason Gunthorpe]

On Sun, Sep 11, 2016 at 07:24:45PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > > > I've posted some initial work toward a) a while ago, and once we
> > 
> > Did it get merged? Do you have a pointer?
> 
> http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-rdma/msg31958.html

Right, I remember that. Certainly the right direction

> > However, everything under verbs is not straightforward. The files in
> > userspace are not copies...
> > 
> > user:
> > 
> > struct ibv_query_device {
> >        __u32 command;
> >        __u16 in_words;
> >        __u16 out_words;
> >        __u64 response;
> >        __u64 driver_data[0];
> > };
> > 
> > kernel:
> > 
> > struct ib_uverbs_query_device {
> >         __u64 response;
> >         __u64 driver_data[0];
> > };
> 
> We'll obviously need different strutures for the libibvers API
> and the kernel interface in this case, and we'll need to figure out
> how to properly translate them.  I think a cast, plus compile time
> type checking ala BUILD_BUG_ON is the way to go.

I'm not sure I follow, which would I cast?

BUILD_BUG_ON(sizeof(ibv_query_device) == sizeof(ib_uverbs_cmd_hdr) +
             sizeof(ib_uverbs_query_device))

?

> > I'm thinking the best way forward might be to use a script and
> > transform userspace into:
> > 
> > struct ibv_query_device {
> > 	struct ib_uverbs_cmd_hdr hdr;
> > 	struct ib_uverbs_query_device cmd;
> > };
> 
> That would break the users of the interface.

Sorry, I mean doing this inside rdma-plumbing. Since the change is ABI
identical the modified libibverbs would still be binary compatible
with all providers but not source compatible. Since all kernel
supported providers are in rdma-plumbing we can add the '.cmd.' at the
same time.

The kernel uapi header would stay the same.

> However automatically generating the user ABI from the kernel one
> might still be a good idea in the long run.

My preference would be to try and use the kernel headers directly.

Jason