linux-kernel - Re: Enabling peer to peer device transactions for PCIe devices

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Date:   Thu, 24 Nov 2016 10:45:18 +0100
From:   Christian König <christian.koenig@....com>
To:     Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@...idianresearch.com>,
        Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
CC:     Logan Gunthorpe <logang@...tatee.com>,
        Serguei Sagalovitch <serguei.sagalovitch@....com>,
        "Deucher, Alexander" <Alexander.Deucher@....com>,
        "linux-nvdimm@...ts.01.org" <linux-nvdimm@...1.01.org>,
        "linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org" <linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-pci@...r.kernel.org" <linux-pci@...r.kernel.org>,
        "Kuehling, Felix" <Felix.Kuehling@....com>,
        "Bridgman, John" <John.Bridgman@....com>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org" <dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org>,
        "Sander, Ben" <ben.sander@....com>,
        "Suthikulpanit, Suravee" <Suravee.Suthikulpanit@....com>,
        "Blinzer, Paul" <Paul.Blinzer@....com>,
        "Linux-media@...r.kernel.org" <Linux-media@...r.kernel.org>,
        Haggai Eran <haggaie@...lanox.com>
Subject: Re: Enabling peer to peer device transactions for PCIe devices

Am 24.11.2016 um 00:25 schrieb Jason Gunthorpe:
> There is certainly nothing about the hardware that cares
> about ZONE_DEVICE vs System memory.
Well that is clearly not so simple. When your ZONE_DEVICE pages describe 
a PCI BAR and another PCI device initiates a DMA to this address the DMA 
subsystem must be able to check if the interconnection really works.

E.g. it can happen that PCI device A exports it's BAR using ZONE_DEVICE. 
Not PCI device B (a SATA device) can directly read/write to it because 
it is on the same bus segment, but PCI device C (a network card for 
example) can't because it is on a different bus segment and the bridge 
can't handle P2P transactions.

We need to be able to handle such cases and fall back to bouncing 
buffers, but I don't see that in the DMA subsystem right now.

Regards,
Christian.