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Message-ID: <20200724150641.GA1518875@bjorn-Precision-5520>
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2020 10:06:41 -0500
From: Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@...nel.org>
To: Logan Gunthorpe <logang@...tatee.com>
Cc: Alex Deucher <alexdeucher@...il.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Linux PCI <linux-pci@...r.kernel.org>,
Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>,
Christian König <christian.koenig@....com>,
Huang Rui <ray.huang@....com>,
Andrew Maier <andrew.maier@...eticom.com>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] PCI/P2PDMA: Add AMD Zen 2 root complex to the list of
allowed bridges
On Thu, Jul 23, 2020 at 02:10:52PM -0600, Logan Gunthorpe wrote:
> On 2020-07-23 1:57 p.m., Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 23, 2020 at 02:01:17PM -0400, Alex Deucher wrote:
> >> On Thu, Jul 23, 2020 at 1:43 PM Logan Gunthorpe <logang@...tatee.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> The AMD Zen 2 root complex (Starship/Matisse) was tested for P2PDMA
> >>> transactions between root ports and found to work. Therefore add it
> >>> to the list.
> >>>
> >>> Signed-off-by: Logan Gunthorpe <logang@...tatee.com>
> >>> Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>
> >>> Cc: Christian König <christian.koenig@....com>
> >>> Cc: Huang Rui <ray.huang@....com>
> >>> Cc: Alex Deucher <alexdeucher@...il.com>
> >>
> >> Starting with Zen, all AMD platforms support P2P for reads and writes.
> >
> > What's the plan for getting out of the cycle of "update this list for
> > every new chip"? Any new _DSMs planned, for instance?
>
> Well there was an effort to add capabilities in the PCI spec to describe
> this but, as far as I know, they never got anywhere, and hardware still
> doesn't self describe with this.
Any idea what happened? Is there hope for the future? I'm really not
happy about signing up for open-ended device-specific patches like
this. It's certainly not in the plug and play spirit that has made
PCI successful. I know, preaching to the choir here.
Bjorn
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