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@ 2018-09-19  9:26 Antoine Tenart
  2018-09-19  9:27 ` [PATCH net-next 01/12] net: mvpp2: increase the number of s/w threads to 9 Antoine Tenart
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  0 siblings, 13 replies; 16+ messages in thread
From: Antoine Tenart @ 2018-09-19  9:26 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: davem
  Cc: Antoine Tenart, netdev, linux-kernel, thomas.petazzoni,
	maxime.chevallier, gregory.clement, miquel.raynal, nadavh,
	stefanc, ymarkman, mw

Hi all,

This series aims to improve the interrupts descriptions and usage in the
Marvell PPv2 driver.

- Before the series interrupts were named after their s/w usage,
  which in fact can be configured. The series rename all those
  interrupts and add a description of the ones left over.

- In PPv2 the interrupts are mapped to vectors. Those vectors were
  directly mapped to a given CPU, and per-cpu accesses were done. While
  this worked on our cases, the registers accesses mapped to the vectors
  are not actually linked to a given CPU. They instead are linked to
  what is called a "s/w thread". The series modify this so that the s/w
  threads are used instead of the CPU numbers, by adding an indirection.
  This means we now can have systems with more CPUs than s/w threads.

This is based on today's net-next, and was tested on various boards
using both versions of the PPv2 engine.

Two more patches will be coming, to update the device trees describing a
PPv2 engine. The patches are ready, but will go through a different
tree. I'll send them once this series will be accepted. This is not an
issue as the PPv2 driver keeps the dt bindings backward compatibility.

Thanks!
Antoine

Antoine Tenart (12):
  net: mvpp2: increase the number of s/w threads to 9
  net: mvpp2: rename the IRQs to match the hardware
  Documentation/bindings: net: marvell-pp2: update the IRQs description
  net: mvpp2: do not update the queue mode while probing
  net: mvpp2: fix the number of queues per cpu for PPv2.2
  net: mvpp2: cpu should always be unsigned
  net: mvpp2: make the per-cpu helpers static
  net: mvpp2: make mvpp2_read_relaxed static
  net: mvpp2: do not use the CPU number to access the per-thread
    registers
  net: mvpp2: map the CPUs to threads
  net: mvpp2: handle cases where more CPUs are available than s/w
    threads
  net: mvpp2: rename mvpp2_percpu function to mvpp2_thread

 .../devicetree/bindings/net/marvell-pp2.txt   |  45 +-
 drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvpp2/mvpp2.h    |  27 +-
 .../net/ethernet/marvell/mvpp2/mvpp2_main.c   | 431 +++++++++++-------
 3 files changed, 315 insertions(+), 188 deletions(-)

-- 
2.17.1


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2018-09-19  9:27 ` [PATCH net-next 05/12] net: mvpp2: fix the number of queues per cpu for PPv2.2 Antoine Tenart
2018-09-19  9:27 ` [PATCH net-next 06/12] net: mvpp2: cpu should always be unsigned Antoine Tenart
2018-09-19  9:27 ` [PATCH net-next 07/12] net: mvpp2: make the per-cpu helpers static Antoine Tenart
2018-09-19  9:27 ` [PATCH net-next 08/12] net: mvpp2: make mvpp2_read_relaxed static Antoine Tenart
2018-09-19  9:27 ` [PATCH net-next 09/12] net: mvpp2: do not use the CPU number to access the per-thread registers Antoine Tenart
2018-09-19  9:27 ` [PATCH net-next 10/12] net: mvpp2: map the CPUs to threads Antoine Tenart
2018-09-19  9:27 ` [PATCH net-next 11/12] net: mvpp2: handle cases where more CPUs are available than s/w threads Antoine Tenart
2018-10-29 17:35   ` Marc Zyngier
2018-10-30 13:53     ` Antoine Tenart
2018-09-19  9:27 ` [PATCH net-next 12/12] net: mvpp2: rename mvpp2_percpu function to mvpp2_thread Antoine Tenart
2018-09-20  4:13 ` [PATCH net-next 00/12] net: mvpp2: improve the interrupt usage David Miller

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