From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Florian Fainelli Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/7] MIPS: Octeon: Add Free Pointer Unit (FPA) support. Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2017 20:29:20 -0700 Message-ID: References: <20171102003606.19913-1-david.daney@cavium.com> <20171102003606.19913-5-david.daney@cavium.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20171102003606.19913-5-david.daney@cavium.com> Content-Language: en-US Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: David Daney , linux-mips@linux-mips.org, ralf@linux-mips.org, James Hogan , netdev@vger.kernel.org, "David S. Miller" , Rob Herring , Mark Rutland Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Steven J. Hill" , devicetree@vger.kernel.org, Carlos Munoz List-Id: devicetree@vger.kernel.org Le 11/01/17 à 17:36, David Daney a écrit : > From: Carlos Munoz > > From the hardware user manual: "The FPA is a unit that maintains > pools of pointers to free L2/DRAM memory. To provide QoS, the pools > are referenced indirectly through 1024 auras. Both core software > and hardware units allocate and free pointers." This looks like a possibly similar implement to what drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvneta_bm.c, can you see if you can make any use of genpool_* and include/net/hwbm.h here as well? -- Florian