[PATCH v3 1/2] habanalabs: define uAPI to export FD for DMA-BUF

[Jason Gunthorpe]

On Mon, Jun 21, 2021 at 07:26:14PM +0300, Oded Gabbay wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 21, 2021 at 5:12 PM Jason Gunthorpe <jgg at ziepe.ca> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Jun 21, 2021 at 03:02:10PM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> > > On Mon, Jun 21, 2021 at 02:28:48PM +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> >
> > > > Also I'm wondering which is the other driver that we share buffers
> > > > with. The gaudi stuff doesn't have real struct pages as backing
> > > > storage, it only fills out the dma_addr_t. That tends to blow up with
> > > > other drivers, and the only place where this is guaranteed to work is
> > > > if you have a dynamic importer which sets the allow_peer2peer flag.
> > > > Adding maintainers from other subsystems who might want to chime in
> > > > here. So even aside of the big question as-is this is broken.
> > >
> > > From what I can tell this driver is sending the buffers to other
> > > instances of the same hardware,
> >
> > A dmabuf is consumed by something else in the kernel calling
> > dma_buf_map_attachment() on the FD.
> >
> > What is the other side of this? I don't see any
> > dma_buf_map_attachment() calls in drivers/misc, or added in this patch
> > set.
> 
> This patch-set is only to enable the support for the exporter side.
> The "other side" is any generic RDMA networking device that will want
> to perform p2p communication over PCIe with our GAUDI accelerator.
> An example is indeed the mlnx5 card which has already integrated
> support for being an "importer".

It raises the question of how you are testing this if you aren't using
it with the only intree driver: mlx5.

Jason