Re: [RFC PATCH 3/5] mm/vma: add support for peer to peer to device vma

[Jason Gunthorpe]

On Wed, Jan 30, 2019 at 06:26:53PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 30, 2019 at 10:55:43AM -0500, Jerome Glisse wrote:
> > Even outside GPU driver, device driver like RDMA just want to share their
> > doorbell to other device and they do not want to see those doorbell page
> > use in direct I/O or anything similar AFAICT.
> 
> At least Mellanox HCA support and inline data feature where you
> can copy data directly into the BAR.  For something like a usrspace
> NVMe target it might be very useful to do direct I/O straight into
> the BAR for that.

It doesn't really work like that. 

The PCI-E TLP sequence to trigger this feature is very precise, and
the data requires the right headers/etc. Mixing that with O_DIRECT
seems very unlikely.

Jason