Re: [PATCH v9 11/13] nvme-pci: Add a quirk for a pseudo CMB

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Fri Oct 05 2018 - 03:10:50 EST


On Thu, Oct 04, 2018 at 03:27:45PM -0600, Logan Gunthorpe wrote:
> Introduce a quirk to use CMB-like memory on older devices that have
> an exposed BAR but do not advertise support for using CMBLOC and
> CMBSIZE.
>
> We'd like to use some of these older cards to test P2P memory.

I can't sat that I really like adding support for non-standardized
"features" (vs bugs) in the nvme driver.