Re: [RFC 0/7] Peer-direct memory

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On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 12:18:38PM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> Most of this stuff (eg the whole peer_memory_client thing) has no
> buisness being part of the RDMA stack. We can't ask other drivers to
> call IB functions just because their devices have ZONE_DIRECT memory.
> 
> Resubmit those parts under the mm subsystem, or another more
> appropriate place.
> 
> This is the same comment as last time this was submitted.
> 
> If you want to make some incremental progress then implement the
> existing ZONE_DEVICE API for the IB core and add the invalidate stuff
> later, once you've negotiated a common API for that with linux-mm.

Agreed on all points.  Nevermind that seems to be missing a user of all
the newly added infrastructure, which should come with the series.
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