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        "From": "Zhiping Zhang <zhipingz@meta.com>",
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        "CC": "Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>, Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>,\n        Bjorn\n Helgaas <helgaas@kernel.org>, <linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org>,\n        <linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>, <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,\n        <dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org>, Yochai Cohen <yochai@nvidia.com>,\n        Yishai\n Hadas <yishaih@nvidia.com>, Zhiping Zhang <zhipingz@meta.com>",
        "Subject": "[PATCH v1 0/2] Retrieve TPH from dma-buf for PCIe P2P memory access",
        "Date": "Mon, 20 Apr 2026 11:39:14 -0700",
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    "content": "Currently, TPH steering tags are derived for CPUs via ACPI. This series\nextends the VFIO dma-buf path so a vfio-based accelerator can attach TPH\nmetadata to an exported dma-buf, and lets mlx5 consume that metadata\nwhen registering a dma-buf MR for PCIe peer-to-peer access.\n\nPatch 1 adds a dma-buf callback to retrieve raw TPH metadata and updates\nVFIO_DEVICE_FEATURE_DMA_BUF to carry the optional steering tag and\nprocessing hint in one extra trailing entries[] object without changing\nthe base uAPI layout. Patch 2 consumes the exported TPH metadata in mlx5\nand converts the raw steering tag into an mlx5 steering-tag index.\n\nPrevious RFC link:\nhttps://lore.kernel.org/linux-pci/20260324234615.3731237-1-zhipingz@meta.com/T/#u\n\nZhiping Zhang (2):\n  vfio: add callback to get tph info for dma-buf\n  RDMA/mlx5: get tph for p2p access when registering dma-buf mr\n\n drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/mr.c               | 38 ++++++++++++\n .../net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/lib/st.c  | 25 +++++---\n drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci_dmabuf.c            | 62 ++++++++++++++-----\n include/linux/dma-buf.h                       | 17 +++++\n include/linux/mlx5/driver.h                   |  7 +++\n include/uapi/linux/vfio.h                     | 28 +++++++--\n 6 files changed, 151 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-)"
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