Re: [RFC PATCH 1/3] RDMA/umem: Change for rdma devices has not dma device

Thank you for your comment.

On Wed, Sep 08, 2021 at 03:16:09PM +0900, Shunsuke Mie wrote:

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To share memory space using dma-buf, a API of the dma-buf requires dma
device, but devices such as rxe do not have a dma device. For those case,
change to specify a device of struct ib instead of the dma device.

So if dma-buf doesn't actually need a device to dma map why do we ever
pass the dma_device here?  Something does not add up.

As described in the dma-buf api guide [1], the dma_device is used by dma-buf
exporter to know the device buffer constraints of importer.
[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/489703/