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Date:   Tue, 24 Apr 2018 23:41:18 -0700
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:     Alex Deucher <alexdeucher@...il.com>
Cc:     Daniel Vetter <daniel@...ll.ch>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        dri-devel <dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org>,
        "moderated list:DMA BUFFER SHARING FRAMEWORK" 
        <linaro-mm-sig@...ts.linaro.org>,
        Jerome Glisse <jglisse@...hat.com>,
        amd-gfx list <amd-gfx@...ts.freedesktop.org>,
        Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
        Logan Gunthorpe <logang@...tatee.com>,
        Christian König <christian.koenig@....com>,
        "open list:DMA BUFFER SHARING FRAMEWORK" 
        <linux-media@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Linaro-mm-sig] [PATCH 4/8] dma-buf: add peer2peer flag

On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 02:24:36AM -0400, Alex Deucher wrote:
> > It has a non-coherent transaction mode (which the chipset can opt to
> > not implement and still flush), to make sure the AGP horror show
> > doesn't happen again and GPU folks are happy with PCIe. That's at
> > least my understanding from digging around in amd the last time we had
> > coherency issues between intel and amd gpus. GPUs have some bits
> > somewhere (in the pagetables, or in the buffer object description
> > table created by userspace) to control that stuff.
> 
> Right.  We have a bit in the GPU page table entries that determines
> whether we snoop the CPU's cache or not.

I can see how that works with the GPU on the same SOC or SOC set as the
CPU.  But how is that going to work for a GPU that is a plain old PCIe
card?  The cache snooping in that case is happening in the PCIe root
complex.

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