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RDMA/rxe: Add dma-buf support for Soft-RoCE

From:  Zhu Yanjun <yanjun.zhu-AT-linux.dev>
To:  jgg-AT-ziepe.ca, leon-AT-kernel.org, zyjzyj2000-AT-gmail.com, linux-rdma-AT-vger.kernel.org, yanjun.zhu-AT-linux.dev, mie-AT-igel.co.jp
Subject:  [PATCH 0/2] RDMA/rxe: Add dma-buf support for Soft-RoCE
Date:  Wed, 25 Mar 2026 22:27:37 -0700
Message-ID:  <20260326052739.3778-1-yanjun.zhu@linux.dev>
Archive-link:  Article

This patchset introduces dma-buf support for the Soft-RoCE (RXE) driver.
By enabling dma-buf, RXE can now participate in zero-copy data transfers
with other providers (such as GPUs) that export memory via dma-buf fds.

Traditionally, RXE only supported user-space memory regions (UMEM) based
on system RAM. This change extends RXE’s capability to handle peer-to-peer
(P2P) like workflows in a software-defined RDMA environment.

This patchset pass the rdma-core tests with the following link for the
rdma-core:

https://github.com/linux-rdma/rdma-core/pull/1055

Zhu Yanjun (2):
  RDMA/umem: Change for rdma devices has not dma device
  RDMA/rxe: Add dma-buf support

 drivers/infiniband/core/umem_dmabuf.c | 35 ++++++++++-
 drivers/infiniband/sw/rxe/rxe.c       |  2 +
 drivers/infiniband/sw/rxe/rxe_loc.h   |  2 +
 drivers/infiniband/sw/rxe/rxe_mr.c    | 89 ++++++++++++++++++++++++---
 drivers/infiniband/sw/rxe/rxe_odp.c   |  2 +-
 drivers/infiniband/sw/rxe/rxe_verbs.c | 40 ++++++++++++
 drivers/infiniband/sw/rxe/rxe_verbs.h |  2 +-
 include/rdma/ib_umem.h                |  1 +
 8 files changed, 161 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

-- 
2.53.0




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