Re: [PATCH v11 0/9] Userspace P2PDMA with O_DIRECT NVMe devices

John Hubbard
2022-10-24T19:16:21Z

On 10/24/22 08:03, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> The series looks good to me know. How do we want to handle it? I think
> we need a special branch somewhere (maybe in the block or mm trees?)
> so that we can base the other iov_iter work from John on it. Also
> Al has a whole bunch of iov_iter changes that we probably want on
> the same branch as well, although some of those (READ vs WRITE fixups)
> look like 6.1 material to me.
>

A little earlier, Jens graciously offered [1] to provide a topic branch,
such as:

for-6.2/block-gup [2]

(I've moved the name forward from 6.1 to 6.2, because that discussion
was 7 weeks ago.)

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/ae675a01-90e6-4af1-6c43-660b3a6c7b72@kernel.dk
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/55a2d67f-9a12-9fe6-d73b-8c3f5eb36f31@kernel.dk

thanks,
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John Hubbard
NVIDIA