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A comment on GpuScan and SSD-To-GPU Direct DMA.

Re:GpuScan and SSD-To-GPU Direct DMA by MrBuddyCasino on Sunday September 18, 2016 @08:22AM (#12524999)
Who is providing the DMA engine in this case? Has the GPU access to PCIe device memory?
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Re:GpuScan and SSD-To-GPU Direct DMA by kaigai on Sunday September 18, 2016 @08:29AM (#12525015)
NVME-SSD performs as DMAC in this case. All GPU doing is mapping its own device memory on the PCI BAR area.
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