On Thu, Dec 19, 2019 at 12:49:44AM -0800, Haren Myneni wrote:
>
> Virtual Accelerator Switchboard (VAS) can provide support different
> accelerators, Right now only NX is used, but possible to extend to
> others in future. Or different functionalities such as fast thread
> wakeup (VAS feature)
On Tue, 2019-12-17 at 17:33 +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 15, 2019 at 05:05:19AM -0800, Haren Myneni wrote:
> >
> > On power9, userspace can send GZIP compression requests directly to NX
> > once kernel establishes NX channel / window. This patch provides GZIP
> > engine access to user
On Sun, Dec 15, 2019 at 05:05:19AM -0800, Haren Myneni wrote:
>
> On power9, userspace can send GZIP compression requests directly to NX
> once kernel establishes NX channel / window. This patch provides GZIP
> engine access to user space via /dev/crypto/nx-gzip device node with
> open,
On power9, userspace can send GZIP compression requests directly to NX
once kernel establishes NX channel / window. This patch provides GZIP
engine access to user space via /dev/crypto/nx-gzip device node with
open, VAS_TX_WIN_OPEN ioctl, mmap and close operations.
Each window corresponds to