[LSF/MM TOPIC][LSF/MM ATTEND] Enabling Peer-to-Peer DMAs between PCIe devices

2016-12-12 Thread Stephen Bates
Hi I'd like to discuss the topic of how best to enable DMAs between PCIe devices in the Linux kernel. There have been many attempts to add to the kernel the ability to DMA between two PCIe devices. However, to date, none of these have been accepted. However as PCIe devices like NICs, NVMe SSDs

[LSF/MM TOPIC][LSF/MM ATTEND] Enabling Peer-to-Peer DMAs between PCIe devices

2016-12-12 Thread Stephen Bates
Hi I'd like to discuss the topic of how best to enable DMAs between PCIe devices in the Linux kernel. There have been many attempts to add to the kernel the ability to DMA between two PCIe devices. However, to date, none of these have been accepted. However as PCIe devices like NICs, NVMe SSDs