linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 01/12] pci-p2p: Support peer to peer memory

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Date:   Thu, 4 Jan 2018 17:20:19 -0700
From:   Logan Gunthorpe <logang@...tatee.com>
To:     Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@...nel.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-pci@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-nvme@...ts.infradead.org, linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-nvdimm@...ts.01.org, linux-block@...r.kernel.org,
        Stephen Bates <sbates@...thlin.com>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>, Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>,
        Keith Busch <keith.busch@...el.com>,
        Sagi Grimberg <sagi@...mberg.me>,
        Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>,
        Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...lanox.com>,
        Max Gurtovoy <maxg@...lanox.com>,
        Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
        Jérôme Glisse <jglisse@...hat.com>,
        Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/12] pci-p2p: Support peer to peer memory



On 04/01/18 02:59 PM, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 04, 2018 at 12:01:26PM -0700, Logan Gunthorpe wrote:
>> Some PCI devices may have memory mapped in a BAR space that's
>> intended for use in Peer-to-Peer transactions. In order to enable
>> such transactions the memory must be registered with ZONE_DEVICE pages
>> so it can be used by DMA interfaces in existing drivers.
>> ...
> 
>> + * pci_p2pmem_alloc_sgl - allocate p2p memory in an sgl
>> + * @pdev:	the device to allocate memory from
>> + * @sgl:	the allocated sgl
>> + * @nents:      the number of sgs in the list
>> + * @length:     number of bytes to allocate
> 
> Your later patches use "SGL" in English text.  If that's the conventional
> capitalization, please use it here, too.
> 

I'm not sure there is a convention. scatterlist.h uses 'sglist' and 
'scatterlist' so I'll just change my comments to use the latter.

Logan