On Fri, Oct 06, 2017 at 03:35:54PM -0700, Dan Williams wrote:
> otherwise be quiesced. The need for this knowledge is driven by a need
> to make RDMA transfers to DAX mappings safe. If the DAX file's block map
> changes we need to be to reliably stop accesses to blocks that have been
> freed or re-assigned to a new file.

If RDMA is driving this need, why not invalidate backing RDMA MRs
instead of requiring a IOMMU to do it? RDMA MR are finer grained and
do not suffer from the re-use problem David W. brought up with IOVAs..

Jason
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