From: hch@lst.de (hch@lst.de)
Subject: phys_addr_t instead of dma_addr_t for nvme_dev->cmb_dma_addr
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2017 10:06:11 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170111090611.GC7350@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1484122522.26936.9.camel@mellanox.com>
On Wed, Jan 11, 2017@08:15:23AM +0000, Haggai Eran wrote:
> If the BAR is smaller than (offset + size) then any address that is
> outside the BAR must be treated by the device as if it is not in the
> CMB (otherwise some other devices / host memory will simply be
> inaccessible by the NVMe device).?
Yes. I so wish the CMB design wasn't so messed up and we'd just have
a separate BAR with a relative index for it. Maybe we'll need to
propose a CMBv2 in the working group, at least for the proposed new
extensions :)
> > I think this would only happen if we're behind a bridge with a
> > smaller
> > window than BAR.
>
> I'm pretty sure that the bridge window must contain the underlying
> device BARs. If it can't contain them, they can be simply left
> disabled.
Exactly.
> I'm not talking about DMA translation. I'm talking about MMIO
> translation. From what I understand this can happen on POWER systems.
> The physical addresses for MMIO that are used by the CPU are different
> from the ones that are used on the PCIe bus.
As far as I know MMIO translation is absolutely usual for IOMMUs.
That being said my knowledge of IOMMUs is mostly form before Intel
and AMD chipset added them and thus from the RISC/IA64 world.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-01-11 9:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-01-05 10:20 phys_addr_t instead of dma_addr_t for nvme_dev->cmb_dma_addr Max Gurtovoy
2017-01-05 11:02 ` Haggai Eran
2017-01-05 18:39 ` Jon Derrick
2017-01-08 8:55 ` Haggai Eran
2017-01-09 21:54 ` Jon Derrick
2017-01-11 8:15 ` Haggai Eran
2017-01-11 9:06 ` hch [this message]
2017-01-11 15:36 ` Jon Derrick
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