From: "Ertman, David M" <david.m.ertman@intel.com>
To: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>, Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
Cc: "alsa-devel@alsa-project.org" <alsa-devel@alsa-project.org>,
"tiwai@suse.de" <tiwai@suse.de>,
Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
"Sridharan, Ranjani" <ranjani.sridharan@intel.com>,
"pierre-louis.bossart@linux.intel.com"
<pierre-louis.bossart@linux.intel.com>,
"parav@nvidia.com" <parav@nvidia.com>
Subject: RE: [PATCH 0/6] Ancillary bus implementation and SOF multi-client support
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2020 17:23:53 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <DM6PR11MB28417402C0F65B993C6E7E8CDD310@DM6PR11MB2841.namprd11.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201002111932.GA5527@sirena.org.uk>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
> Sent: Friday, October 2, 2020 4:20 AM
> To: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
> Cc: Ertman, David M <david.m.ertman@intel.com>; Greg KH
> <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>; alsa-devel@alsa-project.org;
> tiwai@suse.de; pierre-louis.bossart@linux.intel.com; Sridharan, Ranjani
> <ranjani.sridharan@intel.com>; parav@nvidia.com
> Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] Ancillary bus implementation and SOF multi-client
> support
>
> On Thu, Oct 01, 2020 at 09:47:40PM -0300, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 01, 2020 at 09:17:18PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
>
> > Instead of making ancillary bus giant, it might be interesting to use
> > a library technique to avoid the code duplication you are talking
> > about, eg
>
> > struct my_ancillary_data {
> > struct ancillary_device adev;
> > struct ancillary_resource resources;
> > }
>
> > Then each user can access the facets they need.
>
> The way most of this stuff works already it's not a table in the device
> itself, it's an array of resources with type information. Your second
> struct there is presumably just going to be the pointer and size
> information which you *could* split out but I'm really not sure what
> you're buying there.
>
> The interesting bit isn't really the data in the devices themselves,
> it's the code that allows devices to just supply a data table and have
> things mapped through to their child devices. That isn't particularly
> complex either, but it's still worth avoiding having lots of copies of
> it. *None* of this bus stuff is hugely complex but we still don't want
> each device with children having to open code it all when they could
> just do something data driven.
Would you recommend adding two elements to the ancillary_device like:
void *ancillary_data;
u32 ancildata_size;
like the platform_device uses?
-DaveE
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-10-02 17:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 104+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-09-30 22:50 [PATCH 0/6] Ancillary bus implementation and SOF multi-client support Dave Ertman
2020-09-30 22:50 ` [PATCH 1/6] Add ancillary bus support Dave Ertman
2020-09-30 23:05 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-10-01 11:01 ` Greg KH
2020-10-01 11:46 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-10-01 11:54 ` Greg KH
2020-10-01 12:02 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-10-01 12:15 ` Greg KH
2020-10-01 18:26 ` Ertman, David M
2020-10-01 11:02 ` Greg KH
2020-10-01 16:30 ` Ertman, David M
2020-10-01 11:05 ` Greg KH
2020-10-01 11:58 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-10-01 12:14 ` Greg KH
2020-10-01 14:33 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-10-01 14:38 ` Greg KH
2020-10-01 16:06 ` Pierre-Louis Bossart
2020-10-01 17:42 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-10-01 14:39 ` Parav Pandit
2020-10-01 14:43 ` Greg KH
2020-10-01 13:27 ` Mark Brown
2020-09-30 22:50 ` [PATCH 2/6] ASoC: SOF: Introduce descriptors for SOF client Dave Ertman
2020-10-01 13:02 ` Greg KH
2020-10-01 15:59 ` Sridharan, Ranjani
2020-10-01 22:16 ` Sridharan, Ranjani
2020-10-02 4:53 ` gregkh
2020-10-02 17:07 ` Sridharan, Ranjani
2020-10-03 9:02 ` gregkh
2020-10-05 2:35 ` Sridharan, Ranjani
2020-10-05 11:27 ` gregkh
2020-10-05 15:18 ` Pierre-Louis Bossart
2020-10-05 15:32 ` gregkh
2020-10-01 13:38 ` Mark Brown
2020-10-01 16:48 ` Sridharan, Ranjani
2020-09-30 22:50 ` [PATCH 3/6] ASoC: SOF: Create client driver for IPC test Dave Ertman
2020-10-01 13:04 ` Greg KH
2020-10-01 16:46 ` Sridharan, Ranjani
2020-10-01 13:09 ` Greg KH
2020-10-01 13:55 ` Pierre-Louis Bossart
2020-10-01 16:48 ` Ertman, David M
2020-10-01 13:59 ` Mark Brown
2020-09-30 22:50 ` [PATCH 4/6] ASoC: SOF: ops: Add ops for client registration Dave Ertman
2020-09-30 22:50 ` [PATCH 5/6] ASoC: SOF: Intel: Define " Dave Ertman
2020-09-30 22:50 ` [PATCH 6/6] ASoC: SOF: debug: Remove IPC flood test support in SOF core Dave Ertman
2020-10-01 5:58 ` [PATCH 0/6] Ancillary bus implementation and SOF multi-client support Greg KH
2020-10-01 15:54 ` Ertman, David M
2020-10-01 7:14 ` Greg KH
2020-10-01 15:55 ` Ertman, David M
2020-10-01 16:10 ` Greg KH
2020-10-01 17:13 ` Ertman, David M
2020-10-02 20:23 ` Ertman, David M
2020-10-03 9:08 ` Greg KH
2020-10-03 9:09 ` Greg KH
2020-10-04 2:26 ` Parav Pandit
2020-10-04 23:45 ` Williams, Dan J
2020-10-05 1:18 ` Ertman, David M
2020-10-05 2:39 ` Parav Pandit
2020-10-05 11:25 ` gregkh
2020-10-06 22:40 ` Dan Williams
2020-10-07 9:14 ` gregkh
2020-10-07 16:19 ` Dan Williams
2020-10-07 16:22 ` Mark Brown
2020-10-07 16:41 ` Dan Williams
2020-10-07 16:42 ` Pierre-Louis Bossart
2020-10-07 16:56 ` Parav Pandit
2020-10-01 10:05 ` Rojewski, Cezary
2020-10-01 10:59 ` gregkh
2020-10-01 12:49 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-10-01 12:55 ` gregkh
2020-10-01 13:26 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-10-01 14:17 ` gregkh
2020-10-01 15:08 ` Parav Pandit
2020-10-01 12:50 ` Mark Brown
2020-10-01 13:12 ` Greg KH
2020-10-01 13:42 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-10-01 14:40 ` Mark Brown
2020-10-01 15:32 ` Greg KH
2020-10-01 16:03 ` Mark Brown
2020-10-01 18:16 ` Greg KH
2020-10-01 18:29 ` Ertman, David M
2020-10-01 19:38 ` Mark Brown
2020-10-01 19:54 ` Ertman, David M
2020-10-01 20:17 ` Mark Brown
2020-10-02 0:47 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-10-02 11:19 ` Mark Brown
2020-10-02 17:23 ` Ertman, David M [this message]
2020-10-02 17:25 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-10-02 17:44 ` Mark Brown
2020-10-01 14:07 ` Pierre-Louis Bossart
2020-10-01 15:24 ` Mark Brown
2020-10-01 16:20 ` Pierre-Louis Bossart
2020-10-01 16:51 ` Mark Brown
2020-10-01 18:04 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-10-01 18:13 ` Greg KH
2020-10-01 19:23 ` Mark Brown
2020-10-01 16:50 ` Ertman, David M
2020-10-01 17:10 ` Mark Brown
2020-10-01 17:16 ` Ertman, David M
2020-10-01 17:52 ` Ertman, David M
[not found] <20201001050534.890666-1-david.m.ertman@intel.com>
2020-10-03 9:04 ` Leon Romanovsky
2020-10-03 9:10 ` Greg KH
2020-10-03 9:24 ` Leon Romanovsky
2020-10-03 9:32 ` Greg KH
2020-10-05 1:20 ` Ertman, David M
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