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.TH IBV_REG_MR_RELAXED 3 2012-02-29 libibverbs "Libibverbs Programmer's Manual"

.SH "NAME"

ibv_reg_mr_relaxed, ibv_dereg_mr_relaxed, ibv_flush_relaxed_mr \- register or deregister a memory region (MR) in relaxed mode, flush relaxed MRs

.SH "SYNOPSIS"

.nf

.B #include <infiniband/verbs.h>

.sp

.BI "struct ibv_mr *ibv_reg_mr_relaxed(struct ibv_pd " "*pd" ", void " "*addr" ,

.BI "                                  size_t " "length" ", int " "access" );

.sp

.BI "int ibv_dereg_mr_relaxed(struct ibv_mr " "*mr" );

.sp

.BI "int ibv_flush_relaxed_mr(struct ibv_pd " "*pd" );

.fi

.SH "DESCRIPTION"

Relaxed MRs are different from normal MRs in following ways :

.PP

.PP

 *  Registration is done using Fast Memory Registration(FMR) interface provided by the RDMA device.

.PP

 *  Access permissions are extended to specified memory area's last page boundary.

.PP

 *  There could be a finite time gap between the deregistration call and actual invalidation in the RDMA device for an MR.

.sp

.PP

.B ibv_reg_mr_relaxed()

registers a memory region (MR) associated with the protection domain

.I pd\fR.

The MR's starting address is

.I addr

and its size is

.I length\fR.

The argument

.I access

describes the desired memory protection attributes; for details on 

.I access

options see description of 

.B ibv_reg_mr()\fR.

.PP

.B ibv_dereg_mr_relaxed()

deregisters the MR

.I mr\fR.

This call marks 

.I mr

as ready to be invalidated; however actual invalidation happens later.

.PP

.B ibv_flush_relaxed_mr()

forces all deregistered relaxed MRs under PD

.I pd

to be invalidated by the RDMA device.

.SH "RETURN VALUE"

.B ibv_reg_mr_relaxed()

returns a pointer to the registered MR, or NULL if the request fails.

The local key (\fBL_Key\fR) field

.B lkey

is used as the lkey field of struct ibv_sge when posting buffers with

ibv_post_* verbs, and the remote key (\fBR_Key\fR)

field

.B rkey

is used by remote processes to perform Atomic and RDMA operations.  The remote process places this

.B rkey

as the rkey field of struct ibv_send_wr passed to the ibv_post_send function.

.PP

.B ibv_dereg_mr_relaxed()

returns 0 on success, or the value of errno on failure (which indicates the failure reason).

.PP

.B ibv_flush_relaxed_mr() 

returns 0 on success, or the value of errno on failure.

.SH "NOTES"

.B ibv_reg_mr_relaxed()

can return transient error EAGAIN. User may retry the operation after sometime.

.PP

The user of relaxed memory regions should take care to avoid reliance on

immediate deregistration behavior.  Also, because of the page granularity

of relaxed memory regions, it is often advisable to use page sized

registrations or to align registered regions to a page boundary.

.SH "SEE ALSO"

.BR ibv_alloc_pd (3),

.BR ibv_post_send (3),

.BR ibv_post_recv (3),

.BR ibv_post_srq_recv (3)

.SH "AUTHORS"

.TP

Arun Kaimalettu <gotoarunk at gmail dot com>