[RFC PATCH v2 0/3] RDMA: add dma-buf support

[Jason Gunthorpe]

On Thu, Jul 02, 2020 at 08:15:40PM +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> > > > 3. rdma driver worker gets busy to restart rx:
> > > > 	1. lock all dma-buf that are currently in use (dma_resv_lock).
> > > > 	thanks to ww_mutex deadlock avoidance this is possible
> > > Why all? Why not just lock the one that was invalidated to restore the
> > > mappings? That is some artifact of the GPU approach?
> > 
> > No, but you must make sure that mapping one doesn't invalidate others you
> > need.
> > 
> > Otherwise you can end up in a nice live lock :)
> 
> Also if you don't have pagefaults, but have to track busy memory at a
> context level, you do need to grab all locks of all buffers you need, or
> you'd race. There's nothing stopping a concurrent ->notify_move on some
> other buffer you'll need otherwise, and if you try to be clever and roll
> you're own locking, you'll anger lockdep - you're own lock will have to be
> on both sides of ww_mutex or it wont work, and that deadlocks.

So you are worried about atomically building some multi buffer
transaction? I don't think this applies to RDMA which isn't going to
be transcational here..

> > > And why is this done with work queues and locking instead of a
> > > callback saying the buffer is valid again?
> > 
> > You can do this as well, but a work queue is usually easier to handle than a
> > notification in an interrupt context of a foreign driver.
> 
> Yeah you can just install a dma_fence callback but
> - that's hardirq context
> - if you don't have per-page hw faults you need the multi-lock ww_mutex
>   dance anyway to avoid races.

It is still best to avoid the per-page faults and preload the new
mapping once it is ready.

Jason