Re: [RFC 0/8] Copy Offload with Peer-to-Peer PCI Memory

From: Jason Gunthorpe
Date: Wed Apr 19 2017 - 16:48:51 EST


On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 01:41:49PM -0600, Logan Gunthorpe wrote:

> > But.. it could point to a GPU and the GPU struct device could have a
> > proxy dma_ops like Dan pointed out.
>
> Seems a bit awkward to me that in order for the intended use case, you
> have to proxy the dma_ops. I'd probably still suggest throwing a couple
> ops for things like this in the dev_pagemap.

Another option is adding a new 'struct completer_dma_ops *' to struct
device for this use case.

Seems like a waste to expand dev_pagemap when we only need a unique
value per struct device?

Jason