On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 04:50:41PM -0700, Jon Mason wrote: > On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 10:04:11AM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 02:44:59PM -0700, Jon Mason wrote: > > > The NTB device driver is needed to configure these memory windows, > > > doorbell, and > > > scratch-pad registers as well as use them in such a way as they can be > > > turned > > > into a viable communication channel to the remote system. ntb_hw.[ch] > > > determines the usage model (NTB to NTB or NTB to Root Port) and abstracts > > > away > > > the underlying hardware to provide access and a common interface to the > > > doorbell > > > registers, scratch pads, and memory windows. These hardware interfaces > > > are > > > exported so that other, non-mainlined kernel drivers can access these. > > > > Why would you have non-mainlined drivers? > > > > Can you submit the drivers at the same time so we see how you are using > > these new interfaces? > > There are none at this time. In the near future, the transport will > be modified to use IOAT instead of the CPU copy to improve throughput > performance, and it may be beneficial to have that separate. If you > wish for me to remove the hooks until it is necessary for that, then I > can.
Yes, please do so, we don't add apis for things that are not in-kernel as they almost always need to change once we actually get a user of them, as you know. thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
