From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>
To: Oded Gabbay <oded.gabbay@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [Linaro-mm-sig] [PATCH v3 1/2] habanalabs: define uAPI to export FD for DMA-BUF
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2021 15:50:45 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210623185045.GY1096940@ziepe.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFCwf111O0_YB_tixzEUmaKpGAHMNvMaOes2AfMD4x68Am4Yyg@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, Jun 23, 2021 at 09:43:04PM +0300, Oded Gabbay wrote:
> Can you please explain why it is so important to (allow) access them
> through the CPU ?
It is not so much important, as it reflects significant design choices
that are already tightly baked into alot of our stacks.
A SGL is CPU accessible by design - that is baked into this thing and
places all over the place assume it. Even in RDMA we have
RXE/SWI/HFI1/qib that might want to use the CPU side (grep for sg_page
to see)
So, the thing at the top of the stack - in this case the gaudi driver
- simply can't assume what the rest of the stack is going to do and
omit the CPU side. It breaks everything.
Logan's patch series is the most fully developed way out of this
predicament so far.
> The whole purpose is that the other device accesses my device,
> bypassing the CPU.
Sure, but you don't know that will happen, or if it is even possible
in any given system configuration. The purpose is to allow for that
optimization when possible, not exclude CPU based approaches.
Jason
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-06-23 18:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20210618123615.11456-1-ogabbay@kernel.org>
2021-06-21 12:28 ` [PATCH v3 1/2] habanalabs: define uAPI to export FD for DMA-BUF Daniel Vetter
2021-06-21 13:02 ` Greg KH
2021-06-21 14:12 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-06-21 16:26 ` Oded Gabbay
2021-06-21 17:55 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-06-21 18:27 ` Daniel Vetter
2021-06-21 19:24 ` Oded Gabbay
2021-06-21 23:29 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-06-22 6:37 ` [Linaro-mm-sig] " Christian König
2021-06-22 8:42 ` Oded Gabbay
2021-06-22 12:01 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-06-22 12:04 ` Oded Gabbay
2021-06-22 12:15 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-06-22 13:12 ` Oded Gabbay
2021-06-22 15:11 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-06-22 15:24 ` Christian König
2021-06-22 15:28 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-06-22 15:31 ` Oded Gabbay
2021-06-22 15:31 ` Christian König
2021-06-22 15:40 ` Oded Gabbay
2021-06-22 15:49 ` Christian König
2021-06-22 15:24 ` Oded Gabbay
2021-06-22 15:34 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-06-22 12:23 ` Christian König
2021-06-22 15:23 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-06-22 15:29 ` Christian König
2021-06-22 15:40 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-06-22 15:48 ` Christian König
2021-06-22 16:05 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-06-23 8:57 ` Christian König
2021-06-23 9:14 ` Oded Gabbay
2021-06-23 18:24 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-06-23 18:43 ` Oded Gabbay
2021-06-23 18:50 ` Jason Gunthorpe [this message]
2021-06-23 19:00 ` Oded Gabbay
2021-06-23 19:34 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-06-23 19:39 ` Oded Gabbay
2021-06-24 0:45 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-06-24 5:40 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-06-24 5:34 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-06-24 8:07 ` Christian König
2021-06-24 8:12 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-06-24 9:52 ` Christian König
2021-06-24 13:22 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-06-22 16:50 ` Felix Kuehling
2021-06-21 14:20 ` Daniel Vetter
2021-06-21 14:49 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-06-21 14:17 ` Jason Gunthorpe
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