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From: Stephen Bates <Stephen.Bates@pmcs.com>
To: Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@obsidianresearch.com>,
	Haggai Eran <haggaie@mellanox.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>,
	"linux-mm@kvack.org" <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	"linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org" <linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-nvdimm@ml01.01.org" <linux-nvdimm@ml01.01.org>,
	"javier@cnexlabs.com" <javier@cnexlabs.com>,
	"sagig@mellanox.com" <sagig@mellanox.com>,
	"leonro@mellanox.com" <leonro@mellanox.com>,
	"artemyko@mellanox.com" <artemyko@mellanox.com>,
	"hch@infradead.org" <hch@infradead.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH RFC 1/1] Add support for ZONE_DEVICE IO memory with struct pages.
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2016 19:25:29 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <36F6EBABA23FEF4391AF72944D228901EB72CA35@BBYEXM01.pmc-sierra.internal> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160317161121.GA19501@obsidianresearch.com>

> 
> There are fringe cases that are more complex, and maybe the correct reading
> of the spec is to setup routing to avoid optimal paths, but it certainly is
> possible to configure switches in a way that could not guarentee global
> ordering.
> 
> Jason

If someone configures a multipath PCIe topology I think they will have potential for out of order RDMA reads/writes regardless of whether the target MR is in system memory of PCIe memory. So I don't think these crazy topologies are uniquely problematic for IOPMEM.

Stephen

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      reply	other threads:[~2016-03-21 19:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-03-14 18:14 Stephen Bates
2016-03-14 21:23 ` Matthew Wilcox
2016-03-14 21:57   ` Jason Gunthorpe
2016-03-15  4:09     ` Logan Gunthorpe
2016-03-15 17:00       ` Stephen Bates
2016-03-17 15:18     ` Haggai Eran
2016-03-17 16:11       ` Jason Gunthorpe
2016-03-21 19:25         ` Stephen Bates [this message]

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