Re: [RFC PATCH 0/7] A General Accelerator Framework, WarpDrive

2018-08-05 Thread Kenneth Lee
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Re: [RFC PATCH 0/7] A General Accelerator Framework, WarpDrive

2018-08-03 Thread Jerome Glisse
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Re: [RFC PATCH 0/7] A General Accelerator Framework, WarpDrive

2018-08-02 Thread Xu Zaibo
Hi, On 2018/8/2 18:10, Alan Cox wrote: One motivation I guess, is that most accelerators lack of a well-abstracted high level APIs similar to GPU side (e.g. OpenCL clearly defines Shared Virtual Memory models). VFIO mdev might be an alternative common interface to enable SVA usages on various ac