On Wed, Jun 06, 2018 at 05:51:38PM -0400, Boris Ostrovsky wrote: > On 06/06/2018 08:46 AM, Oleksandr Andrushchenko wrote: > > On 06/05/2018 01:36 AM, Boris Ostrovsky wrote: > >> On 06/01/2018 07:41 AM, Oleksandr Andrushchenko wrote: > >>> From: Oleksandr Andrushchenko <oleksandr_andrushche...@epam.com> > >>> > >>> Allow creating grant device context for use by kernel modules which > >>> require functionality, provided by gntdev. Export symbols for dma-buf > >>> API provided by the module. > >> Can you give an example of who'd be using these interfaces? > > There is no use-case at the moment I can think of, but hyper dma-buf > > [1], [2] > > I let Intel folks (CCed) to defend this patch as it was done primarily > > for them > > and I don't use it in any of my use-cases. So, from this POV it can be > > dropped, > > at least from this series. > > > Yes, let's drop this until someone actually needs it. > > -boris
I agree. We are working on re-architecturing hyper_dmabuf. We would use zcopy apis however, not sure if we are going to do it from kernel or from userspace. So please do not expose those for now. > > > >> > >> -boris > >> > > [1] https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/series/38207/ > > [2] https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/204447/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Xen-devel mailing list > > xen-de...@lists.xenproject.org > > https://lists.xenproject.org/mailman/listinfo/xen-devel > _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
