Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 9/9] xen/gntdev: Expose gntdev's dma-buf API for in-kernel use

[Dongwon Kim]

On Wed, Jun 06, 2018 at 05:51:38PM -0400, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
> On 06/06/2018 08:46 AM, Oleksandr Andrushchenko wrote:
> > On 06/05/2018 01:36 AM, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
> >> On 06/01/2018 07:41 AM, Oleksandr Andrushchenko wrote:
> >>> From: Oleksandr Andrushchenko <oleksandr_andrushchenko@xxxxxxxx>
> >>>
> >>> Allow creating grant device context for use by kernel modules which
> >>> require functionality, provided by gntdev. Export symbols for dma-buf
> >>> API provided by the module.
> >> Can you give an example of who'd be using these interfaces?
> > There is no use-case at the moment I can think of, but hyper dma-buf
> > [1], [2]
> > I let Intel folks (CCed) to defend this patch as it was done primarily
> > for them
> > and I don't use it in any of my use-cases. So, from this POV it can be
> > dropped,
> > at least from this series.
> 
> 
> Yes, let's drop this until someone actually needs it.
> 
> -boris

I agree. We are working on re-architecturing hyper_dmabuf. We would use zcopy
apis however, not sure if we are going to do it from kernel or from userspace.
So please do not expose those for now.

> 
> 
> >>
> >> -boris
> >>
> > [1] https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/series/38207/
> > [2] https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/204447/
> >
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