ibv_reg_mr, ibv_reg_mr_iova, ibv_dereg_mr — register or deregister a memory region (MR)
Synopsis
#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);Description
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:
IBV_ACCESS_LOCAL_WRITE Enable Local Write Access
IBV_ACCESS_REMOTE_WRITE Enable Remote Write Access
IBV_ACCESS_REMOTE_READ Enable Remote Read Access
IBV_ACCESS_REMOTE_ATOMIC Enable Remote Atomic Operation Access (if supported)
IBV_ACCESS_MW_BIND Enable Memory Window Binding
IBV_ACCESS_ZERO_BASED Use byte offset from beginning of MR to access this MR, instead of a pointer address
IBV_ACCESS_ON_DEMAND Create an on-demand paging MR
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.
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.
Return Value
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).
Notes
ibv_dereg_mr() fails if any memory window is still bound to this MR.
See Also
ibv_alloc_pd(3), ibv_post_send(3), ibv_post_recv(3), ibv_post_srq_recv(3)
Referenced By
ibv_advise_mr(3), ibv_alloc_mw(3), ibv_alloc_null_mr(3), ibv_alloc_pd(3), ibv_bind_mw(3), ibv_rereg_mr(3), rdma_dereg_mr(3), rdma_post_recv(3), rdma_post_recvv(3), rdma_reg_msgs(3), rdma_reg_read(3), rdma_reg_write(3).
The man page ibv_dereg_mr(3) is an alias of ibv_reg_mr(3).