[rds-devel] [PATCH net-next] rds: rely on IB/core to determine if device is ODP capable

[Allison Henderson]

On Tue, 2025-04-08 at 22:11 +0300, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 08, 2025 at 09:38:14AM -0300, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 08, 2025 at 03:34:13PM +0300, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> > > On Tue, Apr 08, 2025 at 09:23:38AM -0300, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > > > On Tue, Apr 08, 2025 at 02:04:55PM +0300, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> > > > > diff --git a/net/rds/ib.c b/net/rds/ib.c
> > > > > index 9826fe7f9d00..c62aa2ff4963 100644
> > > > > --- a/net/rds/ib.c
> > > > > +++ b/net/rds/ib.c
> > > > > @@ -153,14 +153,6 @@ static int rds_ib_add_one(struct ib_device *device)
> > > > >  	rds_ibdev->max_wrs = device->attrs.max_qp_wr;
> > > > >  	rds_ibdev->max_sge = min(device->attrs.max_send_sge, RDS_IB_MAX_SGE);
> > > > >  
> > > > > -	rds_ibdev->odp_capable =
> > > > > -		!!(device->attrs.kernel_cap_flags &
> > > > > -		   IBK_ON_DEMAND_PAGING) &&
> > > > > -		!!(device->attrs.odp_caps.per_transport_caps.rc_odp_caps &
> > > > > -		   IB_ODP_SUPPORT_WRITE) &&
> > > > > -		!!(device->attrs.odp_caps.per_transport_caps.rc_odp_caps &
> > > > > -		   IB_ODP_SUPPORT_READ);
> > > > 
> > > > This patch seems to drop the check for WRITE and READ support on the
> > > > ODP.
> > > 
> > > Right, and they are part of IBK_ON_DEMAND_PAGING support. All ODP
> > > providers support both IB_ODP_SUPPORT_WRITE and IB_ODP_SUPPORT_READ.
> > 
> > Where? mlx5 reads this from FW and I don't see anything blocking
> > IBK_ON_DEMAND_PAGING if the FW is weird.
> 
> As the one who added it, I can assure you that we added these checks not
> because of weird FW, but because these caps existed.
Hi Leon,

Thanks for the patch.  Is there a commit id for the FW checks we can see?  Maybe we can just add a little more detail to
the commit description to make clear where they are and what they're checking for.  Thank you!

Allison

> 
> RDS calls to ib_reg_user_mr() with the following access_flags.
> 
>   564                 int access_flags =
>   565                         (IB_ACCESS_LOCAL_WRITE | IB_ACCESS_REMOTE_READ |
>   566                          IB_ACCESS_REMOTE_WRITE | IB_ACCESS_REMOTE_ATOMIC |
>   567                          IB_ACCESS_ON_DEMAND);
>   <...>
>   575
>   576                 ib_mr = ib_reg_user_mr(rds_ibdev->pd, start, length, virt_addr,
>   577                                        access_flags);
> 
> If for some reason ODP doesn't support WRITE and/or READ, ib_reg_user_mr() will return an error from FW,
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 
> > 
> > Jason