From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Ira Snyder <iws@ovro.caltech.edu>
Cc: arnd@arndb.de, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org,
shemminger@vyatta.com, David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC v5] net: add PCINet driver
Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 10:32:35 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1231630355.2142.92.camel@pasglop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090108215127.GA28935@ovro.caltech.edu>
On Thu, 2009-01-08 at 13:51 -0800, Ira Snyder wrote:
> The guests (PowerPC computers running Linux) are PCI cards in the host
> system (an Intel Pentium3-M system). The guest computers can access all
> of the host's memory. The guests provide a 1MB (movable) window into
> their memory.
>
> The PowerPC computers also have a DMA controller, which I've used to get
> better throughput from my driver. I have a way to create interrupts to
> both the host and guest systems.
That looks -very- similar to the PCI driver for CAB and Cell triblades
that was, I think, submitted a while ago. Arnd what's the status with
that driver ?
Cheers,
Ben.
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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Ira Snyder <iws@ovro.caltech.edu>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org,
shemminger@vyatta.com, arnd@arndb.de, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC v5] net: add PCINet driver
Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 10:32:35 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1231630355.2142.92.camel@pasglop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090108215127.GA28935@ovro.caltech.edu>
On Thu, 2009-01-08 at 13:51 -0800, Ira Snyder wrote:
> The guests (PowerPC computers running Linux) are PCI cards in the host
> system (an Intel Pentium3-M system). The guest computers can access all
> of the host's memory. The guests provide a 1MB (movable) window into
> their memory.
>
> The PowerPC computers also have a DMA controller, which I've used to get
> better throughput from my driver. I have a way to create interrupts to
> both the host and guest systems.
That looks -very- similar to the PCI driver for CAB and Cell triblades
that was, I think, submitted a while ago. Arnd what's the status with
that driver ?
Cheers,
Ben.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-10 23:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-07 19:50 [PATCH RFC v5] net: add PCINet driver Ira Snyder
2009-01-07 19:50 ` Ira Snyder
2009-01-08 19:16 ` David Miller
2009-01-08 19:16 ` David Miller
2009-01-08 19:16 ` David Miller
2009-01-08 19:27 ` Ira Snyder
2009-01-08 19:27 ` Ira Snyder
2009-01-08 21:51 ` Ira Snyder
2009-01-10 23:32 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2009-01-10 23:32 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-01-12 17:56 ` Arnd Bergmann
2009-01-12 17:56 ` Arnd Bergmann
2009-01-13 2:32 ` Rusty Russell
2009-01-13 2:32 ` Rusty Russell
2009-01-13 3:34 ` Ira Snyder
2009-01-13 3:34 ` Ira Snyder
2009-01-13 16:33 ` Arnd Bergmann
2009-01-13 16:33 ` Arnd Bergmann
2009-01-13 16:40 ` Ira Snyder
2009-01-13 16:40 ` Ira Snyder
2009-01-13 17:42 ` Arnd Bergmann
2009-01-13 17:42 ` Arnd Bergmann
2009-01-15 0:12 ` Ira Snyder
2009-01-15 0:12 ` Ira Snyder
2009-01-15 12:58 ` Arnd Bergmann
2009-01-15 12:58 ` Arnd Bergmann
2009-01-15 16:54 ` Ira Snyder
2009-01-15 16:54 ` Ira Snyder
2009-01-15 17:53 ` Arnd Bergmann
2009-01-15 17:53 ` Arnd Bergmann
2009-01-15 18:20 ` Ira Snyder
2009-01-15 18:20 ` Ira Snyder
2009-01-15 20:57 ` Arnd Bergmann
2009-01-15 23:27 ` Ira Snyder
2009-01-15 23:27 ` Ira Snyder
2009-01-15 19:21 ` Ira Snyder
2009-01-15 19:21 ` Ira Snyder
2009-01-15 21:22 ` Arnd Bergmann
2009-01-15 21:22 ` Arnd Bergmann
2009-01-15 21:40 ` Ira Snyder
2009-01-15 21:40 ` Ira Snyder
2009-01-15 22:53 ` Arnd Bergmann
2009-01-15 22:53 ` Arnd Bergmann
2009-01-15 23:31 ` Ira Snyder
2009-01-15 23:31 ` Ira Snyder
2009-01-16 9:15 ` Jan-Bernd Themann
2009-01-16 9:15 ` Jan-Bernd Themann
2009-01-08 19:16 ` David Miller
2009-01-08 19:16 ` David Miller
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-01-07 19:50 Ira Snyder
2009-01-07 19:50 Ira Snyder
2009-01-07 19:50 Ira Snyder
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