On Wed, Dec 20, 2023 at 2:10 AM Dragos Tatulea <dtatu...@nvidia.com> wrote:
>
> Deleting the old mr during mr update (.set_map) and then modifying the
> vqs with the new mr is not a good flow for firmware. The firmware
> expects that mkeys are deleted after there are no more vqs referencing
> them.
>
> Introduce reference counting for mrs to fix this. It is the only way to
> make sure that mkeys are not in use by vqs.
>
> An mr reference is taken when the mr is associated to the mr asid table
> and when the mr is linked to the vq on create/modify. The reference is
> released when the mkey is unlinked from the vq (trough modify/destroy)
> and from the mr asid table.
>
> To make things consistent, get rid of mlx5_vdpa_destroy_mr and use
> get/put semantics everywhere.
>
> Reviewed-by: Gal Pressman <g...@nvidia.com>
> Acked-by: Eugenio Pérez <epere...@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Dragos Tatulea <dtatu...@nvidia.com>
> ---

Acked-by: Jason Wang <jasow...@redhat.com>

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