| IBV_REG_MR(3) | Libibverbs Programmer's Manual | IBV_REG_MR(3) |
ibv_reg_mr, ibv_reg_mr_iova, ibv_dereg_mr - register or deregister a memory region (MR)
#include <infiniband/verbs.h>
struct ibv_mr *ibv_reg_mr(struct ibv_pd *pd, void *addr,
size_t length, int access);
struct ibv_mr *ibv_reg_mr_iova(struct ibv_pd *pd, void *addr,
size_t length, uint64_t hca_va,
int access);
int ibv_dereg_mr(struct ibv_mr *mr);
ibv_reg_mr() registers a memory region (MR) associated with the protection domain pd. The MR's starting address is addr and its size is length. The argument access describes the desired memory protection attributes; it is either 0 or the bitwise OR of one or more of the following flags:
If IBV_ACCESS_REMOTE_WRITE or IBV_ACCESS_REMOTE_ATOMIC is set, then IBV_ACCESS_LOCAL_WRITE must be set too.
Local read access is always enabled for the MR.
To create an implicit ODP MR, IBV_ACCESS_ON_DEMAND should be set, addr should be 0 and length should be SIZE_MAX.
If IBV_ACCESS_HUGETLB is set, then application awares that for this MR all pages are huge and must promise it will never do anything to break huge pages.
ibv_reg_mr_iova() ibv_reg_mr_iova is the same as the normal reg_mr, except that the user is allowed to specify the virtual base address of the MR when accessed through a lkey or rkey. The offset in the memory region is computed as 'addr + (iova - hca_va)'. Specifying 0 for hca_va has the same effect as IBV_ACCESS_ZERO_BASED.
ibv_dereg_mr() deregisters the MR mr.
ibv_reg_mr() / ibv_reg_mr_iova() returns a pointer to the registered MR, or NULL if the request fails. The local key (L_Key) field lkey is used as the lkey field of struct ibv_sge when posting buffers with ibv_post_* verbs, and the the remote key (R_Key) field rkey is used by remote processes to perform Atomic and RDMA operations. The remote process places this rkey as the rkey field of struct ibv_send_wr passed to the ibv_post_send function.
ibv_dereg_mr() returns 0 on success, or the value of errno on failure (which indicates the failure reason).
ibv_dereg_mr() fails if any memory window is still bound to this MR.
ibv_alloc_pd(3), ibv_post_send(3), ibv_post_recv(3), ibv_post_srq_recv(3)
| 2006-10-31 | libibverbs |