From: Vincent Whitchurch <vincent.whitchurch@axis.com>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org>
Cc: Sherry Sun <sherry.sun@nxp.com>,
"Dutt, Sudeep" <sudeep.dutt@intel.com>,
dl-linux-imx <linux-imx@nxp.com>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"hch@infradead.org" <hch@infradead.org>,
"kishon@ti.com" <kishon@ti.com>,
"lorenzo.pieralisi@arm.com" <lorenzo.pieralisi@arm.com>,
"gregkh@linuxfoundation.org" <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
"Dixit, Ashutosh" <ashutosh.dixit@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V3 2/4] misc: vop: do not allocate and reassign the used ring
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2020 11:07:27 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201029100727.trbppgbusd5vogpz@axis.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAK8P3a3u06ZHdAb_n3byTqfxAvy_wi48X1g0N4ODuH2uEM0xLA@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, Oct 28, 2020 at 04:50:36PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> I think we should try to do something on top of the PCIe endpoint subsystem
> to make it work across arbitrary combinations of host and device
> implementations,
> and provide a superset of what the MIC driver, (out-of-tree) Bluefield endpoint
> driver, and the NTB subsystem as well as a couple of others used to do,
> each of them tunneling block/network/serial/... over a PCIe link of some
> sort, usually with virtio.
VOP is not PCIe-specific (as demonstrated by the vop-loopback patches I
posted a while ago [1]), and it would be a shame for a replacement to be
tied to the PCIe endpoint subsystem. There are many SOCs out there
which have multiple Linux-capable processors without cache-coherency
between them. VOP is (or should I say was since I guess it's being
deleted) the closest we have in mainline to easily get generic virtio
(and not just rpmsg) running between these kind of Linux instances. If
a new replacement framework were to be PCIe-exclusive then we'd have to
invent one more framework for non-PCIe links to do pretty much the same
thing.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190403104746.16063-1-vincent.whitchurch@axis.com/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-10-29 10:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-10-22 5:06 [PATCH V3 0/4] Change vring space from nomal memory to dma coherent memory Sherry Sun
2020-10-22 5:06 ` [PATCH V3 1/4] misc: vop: change the way of allocating vring and device page Sherry Sun
2020-10-22 7:58 ` kernel test robot
2020-10-22 7:58 ` kernel test robot
2020-10-23 9:25 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-10-26 2:54 ` Sherry Sun
2020-10-22 5:06 ` [PATCH V3 2/4] misc: vop: do not allocate and reassign the used ring Sherry Sun
2020-10-22 8:53 ` kernel test robot
2020-10-22 8:53 ` kernel test robot
2020-10-23 9:26 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-10-26 3:04 ` Sherry Sun
2020-10-27 6:28 ` gregkh
2020-10-27 7:05 ` Sherry Sun
2020-10-27 15:11 ` Vincent Whitchurch
2020-10-28 1:47 ` Sherry Sun
[not found] ` <93bd1c60ea4d910489a7592200856eaf8022ced0.camel@intel.com>
2020-10-28 6:29 ` Sherry Sun
[not found] ` <CAK8P3a1JRx32VfFcwFpK0i6F5MQMCK-yCKw8=d_R08Y3iQ7wLQ@mail.gmail.com>
2020-10-28 15:50 ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-10-29 2:42 ` Sherry Sun
2020-10-29 9:20 ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-10-29 10:07 ` Vincent Whitchurch [this message]
2020-10-29 10:34 ` gregkh
2020-10-29 11:53 ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-10-29 13:35 ` Dixit, Ashutosh
2020-10-29 13:54 ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-10-29 13:23 ` Dixit, Ashutosh
2020-10-28 9:14 ` Vincent Whitchurch
2020-10-22 5:06 ` [PATCH V3 3/4] misc: vop: simply return the saved dma address instead of virt_to_phys Sherry Sun
2020-10-22 5:06 ` [PATCH V3 4/4] misc: vop: mapping kernel memory to user space as noncached Sherry Sun
2020-10-23 9:28 ` Christoph Hellwig
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