From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Mike Ximing Chen <mike.ximing.chen@intel.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, arnd@arndb.de,
dan.j.williams@intel.com, pierre-louis.bossart@linux.intel.com,
Gage Eads <gage.eads@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v10 01/20] dlb: add skeleton for DLB driver
Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2021 14:36:37 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YCKP5ZUL1/wMzmf4@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210127225641.1342-2-mike.ximing.chen@intel.com>
On Wed, Jan 27, 2021 at 04:56:22PM -0600, Mike Ximing Chen wrote:
> Add basic driver functionality (load, unload, probe, and remove callbacks)
> for the DLB driver.
>
> Add documentation which describes in detail the hardware, the user
> interface, device interrupts, and the driver's power-management strategy.
> For more details about the driver see the documentation in the patch.
>
> Add a DLB entry to the MAINTAINERS file.
>
> Signed-off-by: Gage Eads <gage.eads@intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Mike Ximing Chen <mike.ximing.chen@intel.com>
> Reviewed-by: Magnus Karlsson <magnus.karlsson@intel.com>
> Reviewed-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
> ---
> Documentation/misc-devices/dlb.rst | 259 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> Documentation/misc-devices/index.rst | 1 +
> MAINTAINERS | 8 +
> drivers/misc/Kconfig | 1 +
> drivers/misc/Makefile | 1 +
> drivers/misc/dlb/Kconfig | 18 ++
> drivers/misc/dlb/Makefile | 9 +
> drivers/misc/dlb/dlb_hw_types.h | 32 ++++
> drivers/misc/dlb/dlb_main.c | 156 ++++++++++++++++
> drivers/misc/dlb/dlb_main.h | 37 ++++
> 10 files changed, 522 insertions(+)
> create mode 100644 Documentation/misc-devices/dlb.rst
> create mode 100644 drivers/misc/dlb/Kconfig
> create mode 100644 drivers/misc/dlb/Makefile
> create mode 100644 drivers/misc/dlb/dlb_hw_types.h
> create mode 100644 drivers/misc/dlb/dlb_main.c
> create mode 100644 drivers/misc/dlb/dlb_main.h
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/misc-devices/dlb.rst b/Documentation/misc-devices/dlb.rst
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000000..aa79be07ee49
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/Documentation/misc-devices/dlb.rst
> @@ -0,0 +1,259 @@
> +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
> +
> +===========================================
> +Intel(R) Dynamic Load Balancer Overview
> +===========================================
> +
> +:Authors: Gage Eads and Mike Ximing Chen
> +
> +Contents
> +========
> +
> +- Introduction
> +- Scheduling
> +- Queue Entry
> +- Port
> +- Queue
> +- Credits
> +- Scheduling Domain
> +- Interrupts
> +- Power Management
> +- User Interface
> +- Reset
> +
> +Introduction
> +============
> +
> +The Intel(r) Dynamic Load Balancer (Intel(r) DLB) is a PCIe device that
> +provides load-balanced, prioritized scheduling of core-to-core communication.
> +
> +Intel DLB is an accelerator for the event-driven programming model of
> +DPDK's Event Device Library[2]. The library is used in packet processing
> +pipelines that arrange for multi-core scalability, dynamic load-balancing, and
> +variety of packet distribution and synchronization schemes.
As this is a networking related thing, I would like you to get the
proper reviews/acks from the networking maintainers before I can take
this.
Or, if they think it has nothing to do with networking, that's fine too,
but please do not try to route around them.
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-02-09 13:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-01-27 22:56 [PATCH v10 00/20] dlb: introduce DLB device driver Mike Ximing Chen
2021-01-27 22:56 ` [PATCH v10 01/20] dlb: add skeleton for DLB driver Mike Ximing Chen
2021-02-09 13:36 ` Greg KH [this message]
2021-02-09 16:29 ` Dan Williams
2021-02-10 18:09 ` Chen, Mike Ximing
2021-03-08 20:00 ` Chen, Mike Ximing
2021-03-08 20:13 ` Greg KH
2021-03-08 22:05 ` Dan Williams
2021-03-08 23:14 ` Chen, Mike Ximing
2021-03-09 4:53 ` Chen, Mike Ximing
2021-03-10 20:10 ` Dan Williams
2021-01-27 22:56 ` [PATCH v10 02/20] dlb: initialize device Mike Ximing Chen
2021-01-27 22:56 ` [PATCH v10 03/20] dlb: add resource and device initialization Mike Ximing Chen
2021-01-27 22:56 ` [PATCH v10 04/20] dlb: add device ioctl layer and first three ioctls Mike Ximing Chen
2021-01-27 22:56 ` [PATCH v10 05/20] dlb: add scheduling domain configuration Mike Ximing Chen
2021-01-27 22:56 ` [PATCH v10 06/20] dlb: add domain software reset Mike Ximing Chen
2021-01-27 22:56 ` [PATCH v10 07/20] dlb: add low-level register reset operations Mike Ximing Chen
2021-01-27 22:56 ` [PATCH v10 08/20] dlb: add runtime power-management support Mike Ximing Chen
2021-01-27 22:56 ` [PATCH v10 09/20] dlb: add queue create, reset, get-depth ioctls Mike Ximing Chen
2021-01-27 22:56 ` [PATCH v10 10/20] dlb: add register operations for queue management Mike Ximing Chen
2021-01-27 22:56 ` [PATCH v10 11/20] dlb: add ioctl to configure ports and query poll mode Mike Ximing Chen
2021-01-27 22:56 ` [PATCH v10 12/20] dlb: add register operations for port management Mike Ximing Chen
2021-01-27 22:56 ` [PATCH v10 13/20] dlb: add port mmap support Mike Ximing Chen
2021-01-27 22:56 ` [PATCH v10 14/20] dlb: add start domain ioctl Mike Ximing Chen
2021-01-27 22:56 ` [PATCH v10 15/20] dlb: add queue map, unmap, and pending unmap operations Mike Ximing Chen
2021-01-27 22:56 ` [PATCH v10 16/20] dlb: add port map/unmap state machine Mike Ximing Chen
2021-01-27 22:56 ` [PATCH v10 17/20] dlb: add static queue map register operations Mike Ximing Chen
2021-01-27 22:56 ` [PATCH v10 18/20] dlb: add dynamic " Mike Ximing Chen
2021-01-27 22:56 ` [PATCH v10 19/20] dlb: add queue unmap " Mike Ximing Chen
2021-01-27 22:56 ` [PATCH v10 20/20] dlb: queue map/unmap workqueue Mike Ximing Chen
[not found] <20210210175423.1873-1-mike.ximing.chen@intel.com>
[not found] ` <20210210175423.1873-2-mike.ximing.chen@intel.com>
2021-02-18 7:34 ` [PATCH v10 01/20] dlb: add skeleton for DLB driver Chen, Mike Ximing
2021-02-18 7:52 ` gregkh
2021-02-18 15:37 ` Chen, Mike Ximing
2021-03-07 13:59 ` Chen, Mike Ximing
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