Re: [PATCH V2 0/4] misc: xgene: Add support for APM X-Gene SoC Queue Manager/Traffic Manager

2014-01-30 Thread Arnd Bergmann
On Tuesday 28 January 2014, Ravi Patel wrote: > On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 7:15 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote: - > > For the DT binding, I would suggest using something along the lines of > > what we have for clocks, pinctrl and dmaengine. OMAP doesn't use this > > (yet), but now would be a good time to st

Re: [PATCH V2 0/4] misc: xgene: Add support for APM X-Gene SoC Queue Manager/Traffic Manager

2014-01-27 Thread Ravi Patel
On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 7:15 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > Now that I have a better understanding of what the driver is good for and > how it's used, let's have a look at how we can make it fit into the Linux > driver APIs and the DT bindings. We don't have anything exactly like this > yet, but I thi

Re: [PATCH V2 0/4] misc: xgene: Add support for APM X-Gene SoC Queue Manager/Traffic Manager

2014-01-14 Thread Arnd Bergmann
On Monday 13 January 2014, Ravi Patel wrote: > > Examples for local resource management (I had to think about this > > a long time, but probably some of these are wrong) would be > > * balancing between multiple non-busmaster devices connected to > > a dma-engine > > * distributing incoming ether

Re: [PATCH V2 0/4] misc: xgene: Add support for APM X-Gene SoC Queue Manager/Traffic Manager

2014-01-13 Thread Arnd Bergmann
On Monday 13 January 2014, Ravi Patel wrote: > > For inbound messages, the QMTM serves a similar purpose as an MSI > > controller, ensuring that inbound DMA data has arrived in RAM > > before an interrupt is delivered to the CPU and thereby avoiding > > the need for an expensive MMIO read to serial

Re: [PATCH V2 0/4] misc: xgene: Add support for APM X-Gene SoC Queue Manager/Traffic Manager

2014-01-13 Thread Ravi Patel
On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 1:19 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Friday 10 January 2014, Ravi Patel wrote: > >> Do you want any further clarification or document related to QMTM. >> We want to make sure everyone is on same page, understand and >> conclude upon that QMTM is a device and and not a bus or

Re: [PATCH V2 0/4] misc: xgene: Add support for APM X-Gene SoC Queue Manager/Traffic Manager

2014-01-12 Thread Arnd Bergmann
On Friday 10 January 2014, Ravi Patel wrote: > Do you want any further clarification or document related to QMTM. > We want to make sure everyone is on same page, understand and > conclude upon that QMTM is a device and and not a bus or a dma > engine. I have a much better understanding now, but

Re: [PATCH V2 0/4] misc: xgene: Add support for APM X-Gene SoC Queue Manager/Traffic Manager

2014-01-10 Thread Ravi Patel
On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 12:48 PM, Ravi Patel wrote: > On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 10:11 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote: >> On Sunday 05 January 2014, Ravi Patel wrote: >>> On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 11:03 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote: >>> > >>> > Please describe here what the purpose of the qmtm is, as this is not >

Re: [PATCH V2 0/4] misc: xgene: Add support for APM X-Gene SoC Queue Manager/Traffic Manager

2014-01-05 Thread Ravi Patel
On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 10:01 AM, Greg KH wrote: > On Sat, Jan 04, 2014 at 09:39:08PM -0800, Loc Ho wrote: >> Hi, >> >> >> >> >> This patch adds support for APM X-Gene SoC Queue Manager/Traffic >> >> >> >> Manager. >> >> >> >> QMTM is required by APM X-Gene SoC Ethernet, PktDMA (XOR Engine) >> >

Re: [PATCH V2 0/4] misc: xgene: Add support for APM X-Gene SoC Queue Manager/Traffic Manager

2014-01-05 Thread Ravi Patel
On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 10:11 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Sunday 05 January 2014, Ravi Patel wrote: >> On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 11:03 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote: >> > On Saturday 21 December 2013 17:00:51 Loc Ho wrote: >> >> On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 12:11 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote: >> > >> > Please de

Re: [PATCH V2 0/4] misc: xgene: Add support for APM X-Gene SoC Queue Manager/Traffic Manager

2014-01-05 Thread Arnd Bergmann
On Sunday 05 January 2014, Ravi Patel wrote: > On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 11:03 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > On Saturday 21 December 2013 17:00:51 Loc Ho wrote: > >> On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 12:11 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > > > Please describe here what the purpose of the qmtm is, as this is not >

Re: [PATCH V2 0/4] misc: xgene: Add support for APM X-Gene SoC Queue Manager/Traffic Manager

2014-01-05 Thread Greg KH
On Sat, Jan 04, 2014 at 09:39:08PM -0800, Loc Ho wrote: > Hi, > > >> >> >> This patch adds support for APM X-Gene SoC Queue Manager/Traffic > >> >> >> Manager. > >> >> >> QMTM is required by APM X-Gene SoC Ethernet, PktDMA (XOR Engine) and > >> >> >> Security Engine subsystems. All subsystems c

Re: [PATCH V2 0/4] misc: xgene: Add support for APM X-Gene SoC Queue Manager/Traffic Manager

2014-01-04 Thread Loc Ho
Hi, >> >> >> This patch adds support for APM X-Gene SoC Queue Manager/Traffic >> >> >> Manager. >> >> >> QMTM is required by APM X-Gene SoC Ethernet, PktDMA (XOR Engine) and >> >> >> Security Engine subsystems. All subsystems communicate with QMTM using >> >> >> messages which include informat

Re: [PATCH V2 0/4] misc: xgene: Add support for APM X-Gene SoC Queue Manager/Traffic Manager

2014-01-04 Thread Ravi Patel
On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 7:38 PM, Greg KH wrote: > On Sat, Jan 04, 2014 at 03:59:46PM -0800, Ravi Patel wrote: >> On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 11:03 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote: >> > On Saturday 21 December 2013 17:00:51 Loc Ho wrote: >> >> On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 12:11 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote: >> >> > On

Re: [PATCH V2 0/4] misc: xgene: Add support for APM X-Gene SoC Queue Manager/Traffic Manager

2014-01-04 Thread Greg KH
On Sat, Jan 04, 2014 at 03:59:46PM -0800, Ravi Patel wrote: > On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 11:03 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > On Saturday 21 December 2013 17:00:51 Loc Ho wrote: > >> On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 12:11 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > >> > On Saturday 21 December 2013, Ravi Patel wrote: > >> >> T

Re: [PATCH V2 0/4] misc: xgene: Add support for APM X-Gene SoC Queue Manager/Traffic Manager

2014-01-04 Thread Ravi Patel
On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 11:03 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Saturday 21 December 2013 17:00:51 Loc Ho wrote: >> On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 12:11 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote: >> > On Saturday 21 December 2013, Ravi Patel wrote: >> >> This patch adds support for APM X-Gene SoC Queue Manager/Traffic Manage

Re: [PATCH V2 0/4] misc: xgene: Add support for APM X-Gene SoC Queue Manager/Traffic Manager

2013-12-21 Thread Arnd Bergmann
On Saturday 21 December 2013 17:00:51 Loc Ho wrote: > On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 12:11 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > On Saturday 21 December 2013, Ravi Patel wrote: > >> This patch adds support for APM X-Gene SoC Queue Manager/Traffic Manager. > >> QMTM is required by APM X-Gene SoC Ethernet, PktDMA

Re: [PATCH V2 0/4] misc: xgene: Add support for APM X-Gene SoC Queue Manager/Traffic Manager

2013-12-21 Thread Loc Ho
Hi Arnd, On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 12:11 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Saturday 21 December 2013, Ravi Patel wrote: >> This patch adds support for APM X-Gene SoC Queue Manager/Traffic Manager. >> QMTM is required by APM X-Gene SoC Ethernet, PktDMA (XOR Engine) and >> Security Engine subsystems. A

Re: [PATCH V2 0/4] misc: xgene: Add support for APM X-Gene SoC Queue Manager/Traffic Manager

2013-12-21 Thread Ravi Patel
On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 1:06 PM, Greg KH wrote: > On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 06:57:27PM -0800, Ravi Patel wrote: >> This patch adds support for APM X-Gene SoC Queue Manager/Traffic Manager. >> QMTM is required by APM X-Gene SoC Ethernet, PktDMA (XOR Engine) and >> Security Engine subsystems. All su

Re: [PATCH V2 0/4] misc: xgene: Add support for APM X-Gene SoC Queue Manager/Traffic Manager

2013-12-21 Thread Greg KH
On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 06:57:27PM -0800, Ravi Patel wrote: > This patch adds support for APM X-Gene SoC Queue Manager/Traffic Manager. > QMTM is required by APM X-Gene SoC Ethernet, PktDMA (XOR Engine) and > Security Engine subsystems. All subsystems communicate with QMTM using > messages which

Re: [PATCH V2 0/4] misc: xgene: Add support for APM X-Gene SoC Queue Manager/Traffic Manager

2013-12-21 Thread Arnd Bergmann
On Saturday 21 December 2013, Ravi Patel wrote: > This patch adds support for APM X-Gene SoC Queue Manager/Traffic Manager. > QMTM is required by APM X-Gene SoC Ethernet, PktDMA (XOR Engine) and > Security Engine subsystems. All subsystems communicate with QMTM using > messages which include inf

[PATCH V2 0/4] misc: xgene: Add support for APM X-Gene SoC Queue Manager/Traffic Manager

2013-12-20 Thread Ravi Patel
This patch adds support for APM X-Gene SoC Queue Manager/Traffic Manager. QMTM is required by APM X-Gene SoC Ethernet, PktDMA (XOR Engine) and Security Engine subsystems. All subsystems communicate with QMTM using messages which include information about the work to be performed and the locatio