Re: [PATCH v7 08/12] powerpc/vas: Define vas_win_id()

2017-08-27 Thread Sukadev Bhattiprolu
Michael Ellerman [m...@ellerman.id.au] wrote: > Sukadev Bhattiprolu writes: > > > Define an interface to return a system-wide unique id for a given VAS > > window. > > > > The vas_win_id() will be used in a follow-on patch to generate an unique > > handle for a user

Re: [PATCH v7 08/12] powerpc/vas: Define vas_win_id()

2017-08-25 Thread Michael Ellerman
Sukadev Bhattiprolu writes: > Define an interface to return a system-wide unique id for a given VAS > window. > > The vas_win_id() will be used in a follow-on patch to generate an unique > handle for a user space receive window. Applications can use this handle > to

[PATCH v7 08/12] powerpc/vas: Define vas_win_id()

2017-08-24 Thread Sukadev Bhattiprolu
Define an interface to return a system-wide unique id for a given VAS window. The vas_win_id() will be used in a follow-on patch to generate an unique handle for a user space receive window. Applications can use this handle to pair send and receive windows for fast thread-wakeup. The hardware