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Message-ID: <20220120140047.GB11223@lst.de>
Date:   Thu, 20 Jan 2022 15:00:47 +0100
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To:     Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...dia.com>
Cc:     Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        Joao Martins <joao.m.martins@...cle.com>,
        John Hubbard <jhubbard@...dia.com>,
        Logan Gunthorpe <logang@...tatee.com>,
        Ming Lei <ming.lei@...hat.com>, linux-block@...r.kernel.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org, dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org,
        nvdimm@...ts.linux.dev
Subject: Re: Phyr Starter

On Tue, Jan 11, 2022 at 11:01:42AM -0400, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> Then we are we using get_user_phyr() at all if we are just storing it
> in a sg?

I think we need to stop calling the output of the phyr dma map
helper a sg.  Yes, a { dma_addr, len } tuple is scatter/gather I/O in its
purest form, but it will need a different name in Linux as the scatterlist
will have to stay around for a long time before all that mess is cleaned
up.

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