Enabling peer to peer device transactions for PCIe devices

Serguei Sagalovitch serguei.sagalovitch at amd.com
Fri Jan 6 00:41:26 UTC 2017


On 2017-01-05 07:30 PM, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> ........ but I am opposed to
> the idea we need two API paths that the *driver* has to figure out.
> That is fundamentally not what I want as a driver developer.
>
> Give me a common API to convert '__user *' to a scatter list and pin
> the pages.
Completely agreed. IMHO there is no sense to duplicate the same logic
everywhere as well as  trying to find places where it is missing.

Sincerely yours,
Serguei Sagalovitch



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