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Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2026 21:32:40 +0300
From: Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
To: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>
Cc: Pranjal Shrivastava <praan@google.com>, linux-pci@vger.kernel.org,
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/5] vfio/pci: Support ZONE_DEVICE-backed P2P
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On Wed, Jun 10, 2026 at 01:28:48PM -0300, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 10, 2026 at 03:18:48PM +0000, Pranjal Shrivastava wrote:
> 
> > Users utilize the standard sysfs p2pmem/allocate interface for managing
> > memory slices once a BAR is registered.
> 
> I'm shocked someone wants to use API, what are you expecting to do
> with it??

I was under impression what we all want to move from that API.

Thanks