Subject: Re: [PATCH rdma-next 0/4] Introduce dynamic UAR allocation mode

From: Jason Gunthorpe <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2020 09:54:59 -0300

On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 02:43:25PM +0200, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> From: Leon Romanovsky <[email-masked]>
> 
> From Yishai,
> 
> This series exposes API to enable a dynamic allocation and management of a
> UAR which now becomes to be a regular uobject.
> 
> Moving to that mode enables allocating a UAR only upon demand and drop the
> redundant static allocation of UARs upon context creation.
> 
> In addition, it allows master and secondary processes that own the same command
> FD to allocate and manage UARs according to their needs, this can’t be achieved
> today.
> 
> As part of this option, QP & CQ creation flows were adapted to support this
> dynamic UAR mode once asked by user space.
> 
> Once this mode is asked by mlx5 user space driver on a given context, it will
> be mutual exclusive, means both the static and legacy dynamic modes for using
> UARs will be blocked.
> 
> The legacy modes are supported for backward compatible reasons, looking
> forward we expect this new mode to be the default.

We are starting to accumulate a lot of code that is now old-rdma-core
only.

I have been wondering if we should add something like

#if CONFIG_INFINIBAND_MIN_RDMA_CORE_VERSION < 21
#endif

So we can keep track of what is actually a used code flow and what is
now hard to test legacy code.

eg this config would also disable the write interface(), turn off
compat write interfaces as they are switched to use ioctl, etc, etc.

Jason