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And does that need >>>> a special cleanup? >>> >>> FOLL_LONGTERM doesn't need a special cleanup AFAIK. It should be used >>> whenever there isn't reasonably bound time after which the page is >>> unpinned. So in case CIFS sets up RDMA and then it is up to userspace how >>> long the RDMA is going to be running it should be using FOLL_LONGTERM. The >> >> Yes, we have been pretty consistently deciding that RDMA generally >> implies FOLL_LONGTERM. (And furthermore, FOLL_LONGTERM implies >> FOLL_PIN--that one is actually enforced by the gup/pup APIs.) > > That's weird. For storage or file systems, pages are pinnen just as > long when using RDMA as when using local DMA, in fact if you do RDMA > to really fast remote media vs slow local media (e.g. SSD vs disk) you > might pin it shorter when using RDMA. ah OK, it is possible that I've been thinking too much about the HPC cases that set up RDMA and leave it there, and not enough about storage. > > I think FOLL_LONGTERM makes sense for non-ODP user space memory > registrations for RDMA, which will last basically forever. It does > not really make much sense at all for in-kernel memory registration for > RDMA that are very short term. Agreed. thanks, -- John Hubbard NVIDIA