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Date:   Wed, 29 Sep 2021 15:50:02 -0600
From:   Logan Gunthorpe <logang@...tatee.com>
To:     Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...pe.ca>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-nvme@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-block@...r.kernel.org, linux-pci@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-mm@...ck.org, iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
        Stephen Bates <sbates@...thlin.com>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
        Christian König <christian.koenig@....com>,
        John Hubbard <jhubbard@...dia.com>,
        Don Dutile <ddutile@...hat.com>,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
        Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@...ll.ch>,
        Jakowski Andrzej <andrzej.jakowski@...el.com>,
        Minturn Dave B <dave.b.minturn@...el.com>,
        Jason Ekstrand <jason@...kstrand.net>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>,
        Xiong Jianxin <jianxin.xiong@...el.com>,
        Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@...nel.org>,
        Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@...el.com>,
        Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@....com>,
        Martin Oliveira <martin.oliveira@...eticom.com>,
        Chaitanya Kulkarni <ckulkarnilinux@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 00/20] Userspace P2PDMA with O_DIRECT NVMe devices



On 2021-09-28 2:02 p.m., Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 16, 2021 at 05:40:40PM -0600, Logan Gunthorpe wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> This patchset continues my work to add userspace P2PDMA access using
>> O_DIRECT NVMe devices. My last posting[1] just included the first 13
>> patches in this series, but the early P2PDMA cleanup and map_sg error
>> changes from that series have been merged into v5.15-rc1. To address
>> concerns that that series did not add any new functionality, I've added
>> back the userspcae functionality from the original RFC[2] (but improved
>> based on the original feedback).
> 
> I really think this is the best series yet, it really looks nice
> overall. I know the sg flag was a bit of a debate at the start, but it
> serves an undeniable purpose and the resulting standard DMA APIs 'just
> working' is really clean.

Actually, so far, nobody has said anything negative about using the SG flag.

> There is more possible here, we could also pass the new GUP flag in the
> ib_umem code..

Yes, that would be very useful.

> After this gets merged I would make a series to split out the CMD
> genalloc related stuff and try and probably get something like VFIO to
> export this kind of memory as well, then it would have pretty nice
> coverage.

Yup!

Thanks for the review. Anything I didn't respond to I've either made
changes for, or am still working on and will be addressed for subsequent
postings.

Logan