On Tue, Dec 6, 2016 at 1:47 PM, Logan Gunthorpe <logang@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hey, > >> Okay, so clearly this needs a kernel side NVMe specific allocator >> and locking so users don't step on each other.. > > Yup, ideally. That's why device dax isn't ideal for this application: it > doesn't provide any way to prevent users from stepping on each other. On this particular point I'm in the process of posting patches that allow device-dax sub-division, so you could carve up a bar into multiple devices of various sizes. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-pci" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
