Re: [RFC PATCH 1/3] RDMA/umem: Change for rdma devices has not dma device

[Jason Gunthorpe]

On Wed, Sep 08, 2021 at 05:41:39PM +0900, Shunsuke Mie wrote:
> 2021年9月8日(水) 16:20 Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> >
> > On Wed, Sep 08, 2021 at 04:01:14PM +0900, Shunsuke Mie wrote:
> > > Thank you for your comment.
> > > >
> > > > On Wed, Sep 08, 2021 at 03:16:09PM +0900, Shunsuke Mie wrote:
> > > > > To share memory space using dma-buf, a API of the dma-buf requires dma
> > > > > device, but devices such as rxe do not have a dma device. For those case,
> > > > > change to specify a device of struct ib instead of the dma device.
> > > >
> > > > So if dma-buf doesn't actually need a device to dma map why do we ever
> > > > pass the dma_device here?  Something does not add up.
> > > As described in the dma-buf api guide [1], the dma_device is used by dma-buf
> > > exporter to know the device buffer constraints of importer.
> > > [1] https://lwn.net/Articles/489703/
> >
> > Which means for rxe you'd also have to pass the one for the underlying
> > net device.
> I thought of that way too. In that case, the memory region is constrained by the
> net device, but rxe driver copies data using CPU. To avoid the constraints, I
> decided to use the ib device.

Well, that is the whole problem.

We can't mix the dmabuf stuff people are doing that doesn't fill in
the CPU pages in the SGL with RXE - it is simply impossible as things
currently are for RXE to acess this non-struct page memory.

Jason