[PATCH v3 01/11] PCI/P2PDMA: Support peer-to-peer memory

Dan Williams dan.j.williams at intel.com
Wed Mar 14 21:30:41 PDT 2018


On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 12:34 PM, Stephen  Bates <sbates at raithlin.com> wrote:
>> P2P over PCI/PCI-X is quite common in devices like raid controllers.
>
> Hi Dan
>
> Do you mean between PCIe devices below the RAID controller? Isn't it pretty novel to be able to support PCIe EPs below a RAID controller (as opposed to SCSI based devices)?

I'm thinking of the classic I/O offload card where there's an NTB to
an internal PCI bus that has a storage controller and raid offload
engines.



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