linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 08/10] nvme-pci: Add support for P2P memory in requests

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-ID: <c6639530-48ba-4655-c772-7d88a030e37e@grimberg.me>
Date:   Thu, 1 Mar 2018 13:07:41 +0200
From:   Sagi Grimberg <sagi@...mberg.me>
To:     Logan Gunthorpe <logang@...tatee.com>,
        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
Cc:     Stephen Bates <sbates@...thlin.com>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>, Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>,
        Keith Busch <keith.busch@...el.com>,
        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>,
        Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 08/10] nvme-pci: Add support for P2P memory in requests


> For P2P requests we must use the pci_p2pmem_[un]map_sg() functions
> instead of the dma_map_sg functions.
> 
> With that, we can then indicate PCI_P2P support in the request queue.
> For this, we create an NVME_F_PCI_P2P flag which tells the core to
> set QUEUE_FLAG_PCI_P2P in the request queue.

This looks fine to me,

Reviewed-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@...mberg.me>

Any plans adding the capability to nvme-rdma? Should be
straight-forward... In theory, the use-case would be rdma backend
fabric behind. Shouldn't be hard to test either...