[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]
Message-ID: <20220705161240.GB13721@lst.de>
Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2022 18:12:40 +0200
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...pe.ca>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
Logan Gunthorpe <logang@...tatee.com>,
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>,
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>,
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>,
Ralph Campbell <rcampbell@...dia.com>,
Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 20/21] PCI/P2PDMA: Introduce pci_mmap_p2pmem()
On Tue, Jul 05, 2022 at 10:51:02AM -0300, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > In fact I'm not even sure this should be a character device, it seems
> > to fit it way better with the PCI sysfs hierchacy, just like how we
> > map MMIO resources, which these are anyway. And once it is on sysfs
> > we do have a uniqueue inode and need none of the pseudofs stuff, and
> > don't need all the glue code in nvme either.
>
> Shouldn't there be an allocator here? It feels a bit weird that the
> entire CMB is given to a single process, it is a sharable resource,
> isn't it?
Making the entire area given by the device to the p2p allocator available
to user space seems sensible to me. That is what the current series does,
and what a sysfs interface would do as well.
Powered by blists - more mailing lists