Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2018 17:55:49 +0100
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
        Logan Gunthorpe <logang@deltatee.com>,
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        Stephen Bates <sbates@raithlin.com>,
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        Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>,
        Max Gurtovoy <maxg@mellanox.com>,
        Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>,
        =?iso-8859-1?B?Suly9G1l?= Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com>,
        Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 06/12] IB/core: Add optional PCI P2P flag to
        rdma_rw_ctx_[init|destroy]()
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On Mon, Jan 08, 2018 at 12:01:16PM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > So I very much disagree about where to place that workaround - the
> > RDMA code is exactly the right place.
> 
> But why? RDMA is using core code to do this. It uses dma_ops in struct
> device and it uses normal dma_map SG. How is it RDMA's problem that
> some PCI drivers provide strange DMA ops?

Because RDMA uses the dma_virt_ops to pretend a device does DMA when
in fact it doesn't - at least not for the exact data mapped, or
as far as I can tell often not all - e.g. the QIB/HFI devices
might do mmio access for data mapped.

This whole problem only exist because a few RDMA HCA drivers lie
with the help of the RDMA core.