RE: Enabling peer to peer device transactions for PCIe devices

2017-01-06 Thread Deucher, Alexander
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RE: Enabling peer to peer device transactions for PCIe devices

2016-11-30 Thread Deucher, Alexander
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Enabling peer to peer device transactions for PCIe devices

2016-11-21 Thread Deucher, Alexander
This is certainly not the first time this has been brought up, but I'd like to try and get some consensus on the best way to move this forward. Allowing devices to talk directly improves performance and reduces latency by avoiding the use of staging buffers in system memory. Also in cases wher