[PATCH v9 4/5] RDMA/mlx5: Support dma-buf based userspace memory region

[Jason Gunthorpe]

On Mon, Nov 09, 2020 at 09:05:16PM +0000, Xiong, Jianxin wrote:
> > From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg at ziepe.ca>
> > Sent: Monday, November 09, 2020 12:53 PM
> > To: Xiong, Jianxin <jianxin.xiong at intel.com>
> > Cc: linux-rdma at vger.kernel.org; dri-devel at lists.freedesktop.org; Doug Ledford <dledford at redhat.com>; Leon Romanovsky
> > <leon at kernel.org>; Sumit Semwal <sumit.semwal at linaro.org>; Christian Koenig <christian.koenig at amd.com>; Vetter, Daniel
> > <daniel.vetter at intel.com>
> > Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 4/5] RDMA/mlx5: Support dma-buf based userspace memory region
> > 
> > On Mon, Nov 09, 2020 at 11:23:00AM -0800, Jianxin Xiong wrote:
> > > @@ -1291,8 +1303,11 @@ static struct mlx5_ib_mr *reg_create(struct ib_mr *ibmr, struct ib_pd *pd,
> > >  	int err;
> > >  	bool pg_cap = !!(MLX5_CAP_GEN(dev->mdev, pg));
> > >
> > > -	page_size =
> > > -		mlx5_umem_find_best_pgsz(umem, mkc, log_page_size, 0, iova);
> > > +	if (umem->is_dmabuf)
> > > +		page_size = ib_umem_find_best_pgsz(umem, PAGE_SIZE, iova);
> > > +	else
> > > +		page_size = mlx5_umem_find_best_pgsz(umem, mkc, log_page_size,
> > > +						     0, iova);
> > 
> > Any place touching the sgl has to also hold the resv lock, and sgl might be NULL since an invalidation could come in at any time, eg before
> > we get here.
> > 
> > You can avoid those problems by ingoring the SGL and hard wiring PAGE_SIZE here
> > 
> > > +static int pagefault_dmabuf_mr(struct mlx5_ib_mr *mr, size_t bcnt,
> > > +			       u32 *bytes_mapped, u32 flags) {
> > > +	struct ib_umem_dmabuf *umem_dmabuf = to_ib_umem_dmabuf(mr->umem);
> > > +	u32 xlt_flags = 0;
> > > +	int err;
> > > +
> > > +	if (flags & MLX5_PF_FLAGS_ENABLE)
> > > +		xlt_flags |= MLX5_IB_UPD_XLT_ENABLE;
> > > +
> > > +	dma_resv_lock(umem_dmabuf->attach->dmabuf->resv, NULL);
> > > +	err = ib_umem_dmabuf_map_pages(umem_dmabuf);
> > > +	if (!err)
> > > +		err = mlx5_ib_update_mr_pas(mr, xlt_flags);
> > 
> > This still has to call mlx5_umem_find_best_pgsz() each time the sgl changes to ensure it is still Ok. Just checking that
> > 
> >   mlx5_umem_find_best_pgsz() > PAGE_SIZE
> > 
> > and then throwing away the value is OK
> 
> ib_umem_find_best_pgsz() is already called inside ib_umem_dmabuf_map_pages(). Do we
> still need to call mlx5_umem_find_best_pgsz() here?

ib_umem_find_best_pgsz() should only be called by drivers

Jason