Re: Phyr Starter

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On 2022-01-11 3:57 p.m., Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 11, 2022 at 03:09:13PM -0700, Logan Gunthorpe wrote:
> 
>> Either that, or we need a wrapper that allocates an appropriately
>> sized SGL to pass to any dma_map implementation that doesn't support
>> the new structures.
> 
> This is what I think we should do. If we start with RDMA then we can
> motivate the 4 main server IOMMU drivers to get updated ASAP, then it
> can acceptably start to spread to other users.

I suspect the preferred path forward is for the IOMMU drivers that don't
use dma-iommu should be converted to use it. Then anything we do to
dma-iommu will be applicable to the IOMMU drivers. Better than expecting
them to implement a bunch of new functionality themselves.

Logan



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