Re: [RFC 7/7] NVMe: CMB on DMA-BUF
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Date: 2016-08-01 15:52:06
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linux-nvme, linux-pci
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Date: 2016-08-01 15:52:06
Also in:
linux-nvme, linux-pci
On Mon, Aug 01, 2016 at 09:57:33AM +0300, Haggai Eran wrote:
Allocate a CMB region to user-space as a DMA-BUF object.
NACK. Absolutely no way we're going to export a low-level device specific feature to userspace like that. If you want to DMA to the CMB do it from the kernel, and for that we'll need a proper block device level API.