ibv_alloc_pd(3)

ibv_alloc_pd3

Allocate or deallocate a protection domain (pds)

Usage

#include <infiniband/verbs.h>

struct ibv_pd *ibv_alloc_pd(struct ibv_context *context);

int ibv_dealloc_pd(struct ibv_pd *pd);

Overview

ibv_alloc_pd() allocates a PD for the RDMA device context context.

ibv_dealloc_pd() deallocates the PD pd.

Return value

ibv_alloc_pd() returns a pointer to the allocated PD, or NULL if the request fails.

ibv_dealloc_pd() returns 0 on success, or the value of errno on failure (which indicates the failure reason).

Notes

ibv_dealloc_pd() may fail if any other resource is still associated with the PD being freed.

Releases

Unchanged in 22 releases since FreeBSD 11.3-RELEASE.

  1. 11.3–16.0

Authors

Dotan Barak <[email protected]>

From base 16.0-CURRENT-20261027-61c70dc16a79 in FreeBSD 16.0-CURRENT (2026-10-27). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.