From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751307AbdH1ExZ (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Aug 2017 00:53:25 -0400 Received: from mx0a-001b2d01.pphosted.com ([148.163.156.1]:56630 "EHLO mx0a-001b2d01.pphosted.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750871AbdH1ExY (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Aug 2017 00:53:24 -0400 Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2017 21:53:17 -0700 From: Sukadev Bhattiprolu To: Michael Ellerman Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt , mikey@neuling.org, stewart@linux.vnet.ibm.com, apopple@au1.ibm.com, hbabu@us.ibm.com, oohall@gmail.com, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 08/12] powerpc/vas: Define vas_win_id() References: <1503556688-15412-1-git-send-email-sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <1503556688-15412-9-git-send-email-sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <87378gugx3.fsf@concordia.ellerman.id.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87378gugx3.fsf@concordia.ellerman.id.au> X-Operating-System: Linux 2.0.32 on an i486 User-Agent: Mutt/1.7.1 (2016-10-04) X-TM-AS-GCONF: 00 x-cbid: 17082804-0020-0000-0000-00000C9FD26F X-IBM-SpamModules-Scores: X-IBM-SpamModules-Versions: BY=3.00007625; HX=3.00000241; KW=3.00000007; PH=3.00000004; SC=3.00000225; SDB=6.00908651; UDB=6.00455616; IPR=6.00688891; BA=6.00005555; NDR=6.00000001; ZLA=6.00000005; ZF=6.00000009; ZB=6.00000000; ZP=6.00000000; ZH=6.00000000; ZU=6.00000002; MB=3.00016893; XFM=3.00000015; UTC=2017-08-28 04:53:21 X-IBM-AV-DETECTION: SAVI=unused REMOTE=unused XFE=unused x-cbparentid: 17082804-0021-0000-0000-00005DE5B3A1 Message-Id: <20170828045317.GE12907@us.ibm.com> X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=fsecure engine=2.50.10432:,, definitions=2017-08-28_02:,, signatures=0 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=outbound_notspam policy=outbound score=0 spamscore=0 suspectscore=0 malwarescore=0 phishscore=0 adultscore=0 bulkscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx scancount=1 engine=8.0.1-1707230000 definitions=main-1708280077 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Michael Ellerman [mpe@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 space receive window. Applications can use this handle > > to pair send and receive windows for fast thread-wakeup. > > > > The hardware refers to this system-wide unique id as a Partition Send > > Window ID which is expected to be used during fault handling. Hence the > > "pswid" in the function names. > > Same comment as previous patch. Ok will drop them for now. > > cheers