Re: [Linaro-mm-sig] [PATCH 4/8] dma-buf: add peer2peer flag

Christoph Hellwig
2018-04-25T06:41:26Z

On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 02:24:36AM -0400, Alex Deucher wrote:
> > It has a non-coherent transaction mode (which the chipset can opt to
> > not implement and still flush), to make sure the AGP horror show
> > doesn't happen again and GPU folks are happy with PCIe. That's at
> > least my understanding from digging around in amd the last time we had
> > coherency issues between intel and amd gpus. GPUs have some bits
> > somewhere (in the pagetables, or in the buffer object description
> > table created by userspace) to control that stuff.
>
> Right. We have a bit in the GPU page table entries that determines
> whether we snoop the CPU's cache or not.

I can see how that works with the GPU on the same SOC or SOC set as the
CPU. But how is that going to work for a GPU that is a plain old PCIe
card? The cache snooping in that case is happening in the PCIe root
complex.