From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
To: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-accelerators@lists.ozlabs.org,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
Frederic Barrat <fbarrat@linux.ibm.com>,
Andrew Donnellan <andrew.donnellan@au1.ibm.com>,
ogabbay@habana.ai, airlied@redhat.com, jglisse@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/5] drivers/accel: Introduce subsystem
Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2019 09:09:15 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a56a9283-55ad-abd3-e45c-b72c8a676925@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190125211335.65783-1-olof@lixom.net>
Hi,
Please see a few corrections inline...
On 1/25/19 1:13 PM, Olof Johansson wrote:
>
> Documentation/accelerators/README.rst | 42 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> MAINTAINERS | 8 +++++++
> drivers/Kconfig | 2 ++
> drivers/Makefile | 1 +
> drivers/accel/Kconfig | 16 +++++++++++++
> drivers/accel/Makefile | 5 +++++
> 6 files changed, 74 insertions(+)
> create mode 100644 Documentation/accelerators/README.rst
> create mode 100644 drivers/accel/Kconfig
> create mode 100644 drivers/accel/Makefile
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/accelerators/README.rst b/Documentation/accelerators/README.rst
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000000000..79049ff99e93e
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/Documentation/accelerators/README.rst
> @@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
> +.. _readme:
> +
> +Hardware offload accelerator subsystem
> +======================================
> +
> +This is a brief overview of the subsystem (grouping) of hardware
> +accelerators kept under drivers/accel
> +
> +Types of hardware supported
> +---------------------------
> +
> + The general types of hardware supported are hardware devices that has
that have
> + general interactions of sending commands and buffers to the hardware,
> + returning completions and possible filled buffers back, together
> + with the usual driver pieces around hardware control, setup, error
> + handling, etc.
> +
> + Drivers that fit into other subsystems are expected to be merged
> + there, and use the appropriate userspace interfaces of said functional
> + areas. We don't expect to see drivers for network, storage, graphics
> + and similar hardware implemented by drivers here.
> +
> +Expectations for contributions
> +------------------------------
> +
> + - Platforms and hardware that has fully open stacks, from Firmware to
that have
> + Userspace, are always going to be given preferential treatment. These
> + platforms give the best insight for behavior and interaction of all
> + layers, including ability to improve implementation across the stack
> + over time.
> +
> + - If a platform is partially proprietary, it is still expected that the
> + portions that interact the driver can be shared in a form that allows
that interact with the driver
> + for exercising the hardware/driver and evolution of the interface over
> + time. This could be separated into a shared library and test/sample
> + programs, for example.
> +
> + - Over time, there is an expectation to converge drivers over to shared
> + frameworks and interfaces. Until then, the general rule is that no
> + more than one driver per vendor will be acceptable. For vendors that
> + aren't participating in the work towards shared frameworks over time,
> + we reserve the right to phase out support for the hardware.
> diff --git a/drivers/accel/Kconfig b/drivers/accel/Kconfig
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000000000..13b36c0398895
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/drivers/accel/Kconfig
> @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
> +#
> +# Drivers for hardware offload accelerators
> +# See Documentation/accel/README.rst for more details
> +#
> +
> +menuconfig ACCEL
> + bool "Hardware offload accelerator support"
> + help
Use tab instead of spaces above.
> + HW offload accelerators are used for high-bandwidth workloads
> + where a higher-level kernel/userspace interface isn't suitable.
> +
> +if ACCEL
> +
> +comment "HW Accellerator drivers"
> +
> +endif
--
~Randy
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-01-26 17:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 103+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-01-23 0:00 [PATCH 00/15] Habana Labs kernel driver Oded Gabbay
2019-01-23 0:00 ` [PATCH 01/15] habanalabs: add skeleton driver Oded Gabbay
2019-01-23 0:49 ` Joe Perches
2019-01-25 19:18 ` Oded Gabbay
2019-01-23 12:28 ` Mike Rapoport
2019-01-23 12:40 ` Greg KH
2019-01-23 12:55 ` Mike Rapoport
2019-01-25 20:09 ` Oded Gabbay
2019-01-25 20:05 ` Oded Gabbay
2019-01-26 16:05 ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-01-26 16:24 ` Oded Gabbay
2019-01-26 21:14 ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-01-26 21:48 ` Oded Gabbay
2019-01-27 8:32 ` gregkh
2019-01-29 22:49 ` Oded Gabbay
2019-01-23 0:00 ` [PATCH 03/15] habanalabs: add basic Goya support Oded Gabbay
2019-01-23 12:28 ` Mike Rapoport
2019-01-25 20:32 ` Oded Gabbay
2019-01-27 6:39 ` Mike Rapoport
2019-01-28 7:44 ` Oded Gabbay
2019-01-23 0:00 ` [PATCH 04/15] habanalabs: add context and ASID modules Oded Gabbay
2019-01-23 12:28 ` Mike Rapoport
2019-01-25 21:07 ` Oded Gabbay
2019-01-23 0:00 ` [PATCH 05/15] habanalabs: add command buffer module Oded Gabbay
2019-01-23 12:28 ` Mike Rapoport
2019-01-25 21:47 ` Oded Gabbay
2019-01-27 6:49 ` Mike Rapoport
2019-01-28 7:55 ` Oded Gabbay
2019-01-28 8:41 ` Mike Rapoport
2019-01-23 0:00 ` [PATCH 06/15] habanalabs: add basic Goya h/w initialization Oded Gabbay
2019-01-25 7:46 ` Mike Rapoport
2019-01-28 10:35 ` Oded Gabbay
2019-01-23 0:00 ` [PATCH 07/15] habanalabs: add h/w queues module Oded Gabbay
2019-01-25 7:50 ` Mike Rapoport
2019-01-28 10:50 ` Oded Gabbay
2019-01-23 0:00 ` [PATCH 08/15] habanalabs: add event queue and interrupts Oded Gabbay
2019-01-25 7:51 ` Mike Rapoport
2019-01-28 11:14 ` Oded Gabbay
2019-01-23 0:00 ` [PATCH 09/15] habanalabs: add sysfs and hwmon support Oded Gabbay
2019-01-25 7:54 ` Mike Rapoport
2019-01-28 11:26 ` Oded Gabbay
2019-01-23 0:00 ` [PATCH 10/15] habanalabs: add device reset support Oded Gabbay
2019-01-27 7:51 ` Mike Rapoport
2019-01-28 12:53 ` Oded Gabbay
2019-01-23 0:00 ` [PATCH 11/15] habanalabs: add command submission module Oded Gabbay
2019-01-27 15:11 ` Mike Rapoport
2019-01-28 13:51 ` Oded Gabbay
2019-01-23 0:00 ` [PATCH 12/15] habanalabs: add virtual memory and MMU modules Oded Gabbay
2019-01-27 16:13 ` Mike Rapoport
2019-01-30 10:34 ` Oded Gabbay
2019-01-23 0:00 ` [PATCH 13/15] habanalabs: implement INFO IOCTL Oded Gabbay
2019-01-23 0:00 ` [PATCH 14/15] habanalabs: add debugfs support Oded Gabbay
2019-01-23 0:00 ` [PATCH 15/15] Update MAINTAINERS and CREDITS with habanalabs info Oded Gabbay
2019-01-23 12:27 ` [PATCH 00/15] Habana Labs kernel driver Mike Rapoport
2019-01-23 22:43 ` Oded Gabbay
2019-01-23 21:52 ` Olof Johansson
2019-01-23 22:40 ` Oded Gabbay
2019-01-23 23:16 ` Olof Johansson
2019-01-24 1:03 ` Andrew Donnellan
2019-01-24 11:59 ` Jonathan Cameron
2019-01-25 17:13 ` Olof Johansson
2019-02-24 22:23 ` Pavel Machek
2019-01-23 21:57 ` Dave Airlie
2019-01-23 22:02 ` Dave Airlie
2019-01-23 22:31 ` Oded Gabbay
2019-01-23 22:45 ` Dave Airlie
2019-01-23 23:04 ` Olof Johansson
2019-01-23 23:20 ` Jerome Glisse
2019-01-23 23:35 ` Oded Gabbay
2019-01-23 23:41 ` Olof Johansson
2019-01-23 23:40 ` Olof Johansson
2019-01-23 23:48 ` Jerome Glisse
2019-01-24 7:35 ` Daniel Vetter
2019-01-24 9:50 ` Oded Gabbay
2019-01-24 10:22 ` Dave Airlie
2019-01-25 0:13 ` Olof Johansson
2019-01-25 7:43 ` Daniel Vetter
2019-01-25 15:02 ` Olof Johansson
2019-01-25 16:00 ` Daniel Vetter
2019-01-24 23:51 ` Olof Johansson
2019-01-23 23:23 ` Oded Gabbay
2019-01-25 7:37 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-01-25 15:33 ` Olof Johansson
2019-01-25 16:06 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-01-25 17:12 ` Olof Johansson
2019-01-25 18:16 ` [PATCH/RFC 0/5] HW accel subsystem Olof Johansson
2019-01-25 18:16 ` [PATCH 1/5] drivers/accel: Introduce subsystem Olof Johansson
2019-01-25 21:13 ` [PATCH v2 " Olof Johansson
2019-01-26 17:09 ` Randy Dunlap [this message]
2019-01-27 4:31 ` Andrew Donnellan
2019-01-28 19:36 ` Frederic Barrat
2019-01-25 22:23 ` [PATCH " Daniel Vetter
2019-01-27 16:31 ` Daniel Vetter
2019-01-25 18:16 ` [PATCH 2/5] cxl: Move to drivers/accel Olof Johansson
2019-01-25 18:16 ` [PATCH 3/5] drivers/accel: cxl: Move non-uapi include files Olof Johansson
2019-01-25 18:16 ` [PATCH 4/5] ocxl: Move to drivers/accel Olof Johansson
2019-01-25 18:16 ` [PATCH 5/5] drivers/accel: ocxl: Move non-uapi include files Olof Johansson
2019-01-26 13:51 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-01-26 21:11 ` [PATCH/RFC 0/5] HW accel subsystem Arnd Bergmann
2019-02-01 9:10 ` Kenneth Lee
2019-02-01 10:07 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-02-01 12:09 ` Kenneth Lee
2019-01-26 13:52 ` [PATCH 00/15] Habana Labs kernel driver Greg Kroah-Hartman
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