From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_PASS autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33645C282D7 for ; Wed, 30 Jan 2019 18:13:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 11DD420870 for ; Wed, 30 Jan 2019 18:13:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1732886AbfA3SNZ (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Jan 2019 13:13:25 -0500 Received: from ale.deltatee.com ([207.54.116.67]:40016 "EHLO ale.deltatee.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1727473AbfA3SNZ (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Jan 2019 13:13:25 -0500 Received: from s01061831bf6ec98c.cg.shawcable.net ([68.147.80.180] helo=[192.168.6.205]) by ale.deltatee.com with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1gouMO-0007KC-FJ; Wed, 30 Jan 2019 11:13:17 -0700 To: Jason Gunthorpe , Christoph Hellwig Cc: Jerome Glisse , "linux-mm@kvack.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Greg Kroah-Hartman , "Rafael J . Wysocki" , Bjorn Helgaas , Christian Koenig , Felix Kuehling , "linux-pci@vger.kernel.org" , "dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org" , Marek Szyprowski , Robin Murphy , Joerg Roedel , "iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org" References: <20190129174728.6430-1-jglisse@redhat.com> <20190129174728.6430-4-jglisse@redhat.com> <20190129191120.GE3176@redhat.com> <20190129193250.GK10108@mellanox.com> <99c228c6-ef96-7594-cb43-78931966c75d@deltatee.com> <20190129205827.GM10108@mellanox.com> <20190130080208.GC29665@lst.de> <20190130174424.GA17080@mellanox.com> From: Logan Gunthorpe Message-ID: Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2019 11:13:11 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20190130174424.GA17080@mellanox.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 68.147.80.180 X-SA-Exim-Rcpt-To: iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org, jroedel@suse.de, robin.murphy@arm.com, m.szyprowski@samsung.com, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, linux-pci@vger.kernel.org, Felix.Kuehling@amd.com, christian.koenig@amd.com, bhelgaas@google.com, rafael@kernel.org, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, jglisse@redhat.com, hch@lst.de, jgg@mellanox.com X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: logang@deltatee.com Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 3/5] mm/vma: add support for peer to peer to device vma 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 Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 2019-01-30 10:44 a.m., Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > I don't see why a special case with a VMA is really that different. Well one *really* big difference is the VMA changes necessarily expose specialized new functionality to userspace which has to be supported forever and may be difficult to change. The p2pdma code is largely in-kernel and we can rework and change the interfaces all we want as we improve our struct page infrastructure. I'd also argue that p2pdma isn't nearly as specialized as this VMA thing and can be used pretty generically to do other things. Though, the other ideas we've talked about doing are pretty far off and may have other challenges. Logan