> 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)?

> It would be useful if those configurations were not left behind so
> that Linux could feasibly deploy offload code to a controller in the
> PCI domain.
   
Agreed. I think this would be great. Kind of like the XCOPY framework that was 
proposed a while back for SCSI devices [1] but updated to also include NVMe 
devices. That is definitely a use case we would like this framework to support.

Stephen
 
[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/592094/

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