linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5 06/13] PCI/P2PDMA: Add P2P DMA driver writer's documentation

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Date:   Fri, 31 Aug 2018 10:08:11 +0200
From:   Christian König <christian.koenig@....com>
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>,
        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>,
        Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@...hat.com>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 06/13] PCI/P2PDMA: Add P2P DMA driver writer's
 documentation

Am 30.08.2018 um 20:53 schrieb Logan Gunthorpe:
> [SNIP]
> +============================
> +PCI Peer-to-Peer DMA Support
> +============================
> +
> +The PCI bus has pretty decent support for performing DMA transfers
> +between two devices on the bus. This type of transaction is henceforth
> +called Peer-to-Peer (or P2P). However, there are a number of issues that
> +make P2P transactions tricky to do in a perfectly safe way.
> +
> +One of the biggest issues is that PCI doesn't require forwarding
> +transactions between hierarchy domains, and in PCIe, each Root Port
> +defines a separate hierarchy domain. To make things worse, there is no
> +simple way to determine if a given Root Complex supports this or not.
> +(See PCIe r4.0, sec 1.3.1). Therefore, as of this writing, the kernel
> +only supports doing P2P when the endpoints involved are all behind the
> +same PCI bridge, as such devices are all in the same PCI hierarchy
> +domain, and the spec guarantees that all transacations within the
> +hierarchy will be routable, but it does not require routing
> +between hierarchies.

Can we add a kernel command line switch and a whitelist to enable P2P 
between separate hierarchies?

At least all newer AMD chipsets supports this and I'm pretty sure that 
Intel has a list with PCI-IDs of the root hubs for this as well.

Regards,
Christian.