On Wed, Jan 27, 2021 at 04:56:22PM -0600, Mike Ximing Chen wrote: > Add basic driver functionality (load, unload, probe, and remove callbacks) > for the DLB driver. > > Add documentation which describes in detail the hardware, the user > interface, device interrupts, and the driver's power-management strategy. > For more details about the driver see the documentation in the patch. > > Add a DLB entry to the MAINTAINERS file. > > Signed-off-by: Gage Eads <gage.e...@intel.com> > Signed-off-by: Mike Ximing Chen <mike.ximing.c...@intel.com> > Reviewed-by: Magnus Karlsson <magnus.karls...@intel.com> > Reviewed-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.willi...@intel.com> > --- > Documentation/misc-devices/dlb.rst | 259 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > Documentation/misc-devices/index.rst | 1 + > MAINTAINERS | 8 + > drivers/misc/Kconfig | 1 + > drivers/misc/Makefile | 1 + > drivers/misc/dlb/Kconfig | 18 ++ > drivers/misc/dlb/Makefile | 9 + > drivers/misc/dlb/dlb_hw_types.h | 32 ++++ > drivers/misc/dlb/dlb_main.c | 156 ++++++++++++++++ > drivers/misc/dlb/dlb_main.h | 37 ++++ > 10 files changed, 522 insertions(+) > create mode 100644 Documentation/misc-devices/dlb.rst > create mode 100644 drivers/misc/dlb/Kconfig > create mode 100644 drivers/misc/dlb/Makefile > create mode 100644 drivers/misc/dlb/dlb_hw_types.h > create mode 100644 drivers/misc/dlb/dlb_main.c > create mode 100644 drivers/misc/dlb/dlb_main.h > > diff --git a/Documentation/misc-devices/dlb.rst > b/Documentation/misc-devices/dlb.rst > new file mode 100644 > index 000000000000..aa79be07ee49 > --- /dev/null > +++ b/Documentation/misc-devices/dlb.rst > @@ -0,0 +1,259 @@ > +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only > + > +=========================================== > +Intel(R) Dynamic Load Balancer Overview > +=========================================== > + > +:Authors: Gage Eads and Mike Ximing Chen > + > +Contents > +======== > + > +- Introduction > +- Scheduling > +- Queue Entry > +- Port > +- Queue > +- Credits > +- Scheduling Domain > +- Interrupts > +- Power Management > +- User Interface > +- Reset > + > +Introduction > +============ > + > +The Intel(r) Dynamic Load Balancer (Intel(r) DLB) is a PCIe device that > +provides load-balanced, prioritized scheduling of core-to-core communication. > + > +Intel DLB is an accelerator for the event-driven programming model of > +DPDK's Event Device Library[2]. The library is used in packet processing > +pipelines that arrange for multi-core scalability, dynamic load-balancing, > and > +variety of packet distribution and synchronization schemes.
As this is a networking related thing, I would like you to get the proper reviews/acks from the networking maintainers before I can take this. Or, if they think it has nothing to do with networking, that's fine too, but please do not try to route around them. thanks, greg k-h