Re: [PATCH 04/15] fpga: dfl: fme: support 512bit data width PR

From: Wu Hao <hao.wu@intel.com>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Moritz Fischer <mdf@kernel.org>,
	linux-fpga@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
	Ananda Ravuri <ananda.ravuri@intel.com>,
	Xu Yilun <yilun.xu@intel.com>, Alan Tull <atull@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/15] fpga: dfl: fme: support 512bit data width PR
Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2019 07:44:02 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190703234402.GC15825@hao-dev> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190703175601.GA14034@kroah.com>

On Wed, Jul 03, 2019 at 07:56:01PM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 27, 2019 at 05:49:40PM -0700, Moritz Fischer wrote:
> > From: Wu Hao <hao.wu@intel.com>
> > 
> > In early partial reconfiguration private feature, it only
> > supports 32bit data width when writing data to hardware for
> > PR. 512bit data width PR support is an important optimization
> > for some specific solutions (e.g. XEON with FPGA integrated),
> > it allows driver to use AVX512 instruction to improve the
> > performance of partial reconfiguration. e.g. programming one
> > 100MB bitstream image via this 512bit data width PR hardware
> > only takes ~300ms, but 32bit revision requires ~3s per test
> > result.
> > 
> > Please note now this optimization is only done on revision 2
> > of this PR private feature which is only used in integrated
> > solution that AVX512 is always supported. This revision 2
> > hardware doesn't support 32bit PR.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Ananda Ravuri <ananda.ravuri@intel.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Xu Yilun <yilun.xu@intel.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Wu Hao <hao.wu@intel.com>
> > Acked-by: Alan Tull <atull@kernel.org>
> > Signed-off-by: Moritz Fischer <mdf@kernel.org>
> > ---
> >  drivers/fpga/dfl-fme-main.c |   3 +
> >  drivers/fpga/dfl-fme-mgr.c  | 113 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
> >  drivers/fpga/dfl-fme-pr.c   |  43 +++++++++-----
> >  drivers/fpga/dfl-fme.h      |   2 +
> >  drivers/fpga/dfl.h          |   5 ++
> >  5 files changed, 135 insertions(+), 31 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/fpga/dfl-fme-main.c b/drivers/fpga/dfl-fme-main.c
> > index 086ad2420ade..076d74f6416d 100644
> > --- a/drivers/fpga/dfl-fme-main.c
> > +++ b/drivers/fpga/dfl-fme-main.c
> > @@ -21,6 +21,8 @@
> >  #include "dfl.h"
> >  #include "dfl-fme.h"
> >  
> > +#define DRV_VERSION	"0.8"
> > +
> >  static ssize_t ports_num_show(struct device *dev,
> >  			      struct device_attribute *attr, char *buf)
> >  {
> > @@ -277,3 +279,4 @@ MODULE_DESCRIPTION("FPGA Management Engine driver");
> >  MODULE_AUTHOR("Intel Corporation");
> >  MODULE_LICENSE("GPL v2");
> >  MODULE_ALIAS("platform:dfl-fme");
> > +MODULE_VERSION(DRV_VERSION);
> 
> No, we ripped out these useless "driver version" things all over the
> place, please do not add them back in again.  They mean nothing and
> confuse people to no end.
> 
> I'll not take this patch, sorry.

Let me remove them from these patches, and generate a new version quickly.

Thanks for the review and comments.

Hao

> 
> greg k-h