From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751942AbeEJTAS (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 May 2018 15:00:18 -0400 Received: from ale.deltatee.com ([207.54.116.67]:49046 "EHLO ale.deltatee.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751207AbeEJTAQ (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 May 2018 15:00:16 -0400 To: Stephen Bates , Jerome Glisse Cc: =?UTF-8?Q?Christian_K=c3=b6nig?= , Alex Williamson , Bjorn Helgaas , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-pci@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-nvme@lists.infradead.org" , "linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org" , "linux-block@vger.kernel.org" , Christoph Hellwig , Jens Axboe , Keith Busch , Sagi Grimberg , Bjorn Helgaas , Jason Gunthorpe , Max Gurtovoy , Dan Williams , Benjamin Herrenschmidt References: <20180508133407.57a46902@w520.home> <5fc9b1c1-9208-06cc-0ec5-1f54c2520494@deltatee.com> <20180508141331.7cd737cb@w520.home> <20180508205005.GC15608@redhat.com> <7FFB9603-DF9F-4441-82E9-46037CB6C0DE@raithlin.com> <4e0d0b96-ab02-2662-adf3-fa956efd294c@deltatee.com> <2fc61d29-9eb4-d168-a3e5-955c36e5d821@amd.com> <94C8FE12-7FC3-48BD-9DCA-E6A427E71810@raithlin.com> <20180510144137.GA3652@redhat.com> From: Logan Gunthorpe Message-ID: <3e2269ca-126e-ec13-5133-6591c45ccbf4@deltatee.com> Date: Thu, 10 May 2018 12:59:47 -0600 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 172.16.1.162 X-SA-Exim-Rcpt-To: benh@kernel.crashing.org, dan.j.williams@intel.com, maxg@mellanox.com, jgg@mellanox.com, bhelgaas@google.com, sagi@grimberg.me, keith.busch@intel.com, axboe@kernel.dk, hch@lst.de, linux-block@vger.kernel.org, linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org, linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org, linux-nvme@lists.infradead.org, linux-pci@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, helgaas@kernel.org, alex.williamson@redhat.com, christian.koenig@amd.com, jglisse@redhat.com, sbates@raithlin.com X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: logang@deltatee.com Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 04/14] PCI/P2PDMA: Clear ACS P2P flags for all devices behind switches X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2.1 (built Tue, 02 Aug 2016 21:08:31 +0000) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on ale.deltatee.com) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 10/05/18 12:41 PM, Stephen Bates wrote: > Hi Jerome > >> Note on GPU we do would not rely on ATS for peer to peer. Some part >> of the GPU (DMA engines) do not necessarily support ATS. Yet those >> are the part likely to be use in peer to peer. > > OK this is good to know. I agree the DMA engine is probably one of the GPU components most applicable to p2pdma. > >> We (ake GPU people aka the good guys ;)) do no want to do peer to peer >> for performance reasons ie we do not care having our transaction going >> to the root complex and back down the destination. At least in use case >> i am working on this is fine. > > If the GPU people are the good guys does that make the NVMe people the bad guys ;-). If so, what are the RDMA people??? Again good to know. The NVMe people are the Nice Neighbors, the RDMA people are the Righteous Romantics and the PCI people are the Pleasant Protagonists... Obviously. Logan