Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Enabling peer to peer device transactions for PCIe devices | From | Haggai Eran <> | Date | Sun, 4 Dec 2016 09:42:22 +0200 |
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On 11/30/2016 8:01 PM, Logan Gunthorpe wrote: > > > On 30/11/16 09:23 AM, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: >>> Two cases I can think of are RDMA access to an NVMe device's controller >>> memory buffer, >> >> I'm not sure on the use model there.. > > The NVMe fabrics stuff could probably make use of this. It's an > in-kernel system to allow remote access to an NVMe device over RDMA. So > they ought to be able to optimize their transfers by DMAing directly to > the NVMe's CMB -- no userspace interface would be required but there > would need some kernel infrastructure.
Yes, that's what I was thinking. The NVMe/f driver needs to map the CMB for RDMA. I guess if it used ZONE_DEVICE like in the iopmem patches it would be relatively easy to do.
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