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SubjectRe: [RFC 0/8] Copy Offload with Peer-to-Peer PCI Memory
> On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 12:35 PM, Logan Gunthorpe <logang@deltatee.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On 18/04/17 01:01 PM, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> >> Ultimately every dma_ops will need special code to support P2P with
> >> the special hardware that ops is controlling, so it makes some sense
> >> to start by pushing the check down there in the first place. This
> >> advice is partially motivated by how dma_map_sg is just a small
> >> wrapper around the function pointer call...
> >
> > Yes, I noticed this problem too and that makes sense. It just means
> > every dma_ops will probably need to be modified to either support p2p
> > pages or fail on them. Though, the only real difficulty there is that it
> > will be a lot of work.
>
> I don't think you need to go touch all dma_ops, I think you can just
> arrange for devices that are going to do dma to get redirected to a
> p2p aware provider of operations that overrides the system default
> dma_ops. I.e. just touch get_dma_ops().

This would not work well for everyone, for instance on GPU we usualy
have buffer object with a mix of device memory and regular system
memory but call dma sg map once for the list.

Cheers,
Jérôme

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