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Great, thanks to both of you for the quick responses! I probably should have specified that I was doing RMA, but as a libfabric "outsider" (middleware writer) the distinction between MSG and RMA traffic is less in the front of my mind than it would be for,
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000" style="font-size:11pt"><b>From:</b> Wespetal, Robert <wesper@amazon.com><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, July 27, 2020 5:18 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> libfabric-users@lists.openfabrics.org <libfabric-users@lists.openfabrics.org>; Titus, Greg <gregory.titus@hpe.com>; sean.hefty@intel.com <sean.hefty@intel.com><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [libfabric-users] memory registration "not needed", with the efa provider?</font>
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<div class="PlainText">Right, this is correct and we do require and validate the keys for one<br>
sided ops. I'll update the manpage so that this is clearer.<br>
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> My guess is that they mean, "memory registration is not required for<br>
> send or receive buffers".<br>
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> That is, EFA likely doesn't require FI_MR_LOCAL.<br>
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> Registration is always required for RMA target buffers for security<br>
> reasons.<br>
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> - Sean<br>
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