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From: Steve WIse <swise@opengridcomputing.com>
To: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: rdreier@cisco.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	openib-general@openib.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH  v3 13/13] Kconfig/Makefile
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2006 17:04:14 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1165791854.25243.11.camel@linux-q667.site> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061210145602.d2a8bb98.randy.dunlap@oracle.com>

> > +++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb3/Kconfig
> > @@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
> > +config INFINIBAND_CXGB3
> > +	tristate "Chelsio RDMA Driver"
> > +	depends on CHELSIO_T3 && INFINIBAND
> > +	select GENERIC_ALLOCATOR
> > +	---help---
> > +	  This is an iWARP/RDMA driver for the Chelsio T3 1GbE and
> > +	  10GbE adapters.
> > +
> > +          For general information about Chelsio and our products, visit
> > +          our website at <http://www.chelsio.com>.
> > +
> > +          For customer support, please visit our customer support page at
> > +          <http://www.chelsio.com/support.htm>.
> > +
> > +          Please send feedback to <linux-bugs@chelsio.com>.
> > +
> > +          To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module
> > +          will be called iw_cxgb3.
> 
> Please indent all of that the same amount.
> Kconfig help text should be indented 1 tab + 2 spaces,
> like the first 2 lines are.
> 

Will do.

> 
> > diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb3/locking.txt b/drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb3/locking.txt
> > new file mode 100644
> > index 0000000..e5e9991
> > --- /dev/null
> > +++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb3/locking.txt
> > @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
> > +cq lock:
> > +	- spin lock
> > +	- used to synchronize the t3_cq
> > +
> > +qp lock:
> > +	- spin lock
> > +	- used to synchronize updates to the qp state, attrs, and the t3_wq.
> > +	- touched on interrupt and process context
> > +	
> > +rnicp lock:
> > +	- spin lock
> > +	- touched on interrupt and process context
> > +	- used around lookup tables mapping CQID and QPID to a structure.
> > +	- used also to bump the refcnt atomically with the lookup.
> > +
> > +poll:
> > +	lock+disable on cq lock
> > +		lock qp lock for each cqe that is polled around the call
> > +		to cxio_poll_cq().
> > +	
> > +post: 
> > +	lock+disable qp lock
> > +
> > +global mutex iwch_mutex:
> > +	used to maintain global device list.
> 
> Should be in Documentation/infiniband/.
> Docs go in the Documentation/ dir, not in drivers/ dir.
> 

I think I'll just remove this file.  I don't think its that useful...


Steve.




  reply	other threads:[~2006-12-10 23:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-12-10 22:32 [PATCH v3 00/13] 2.6.20 Chelsio T3 RDMA Driver Steve Wise
2006-12-10 22:33 ` [PATCH v3 01/13] Linux RDMA Core Changes Steve Wise
2006-12-10 22:33 ` [PATCH v3 02/13] Device Discovery and ULLD Linkage Steve Wise
2006-12-10 22:34 ` [PATCH v3 03/13] Provider Methods and Data Structures Steve Wise
2006-12-10 22:34 ` [PATCH v3 04/13] Connection Manager Steve Wise
2006-12-10 22:35 ` [PATCH v3 05/13] Queue Pairs Steve Wise
2006-12-10 22:35 ` [PATCH v3 06/13] Completion Queues Steve Wise
2006-12-10 22:36 ` [PATCH v3 07/13] Async Event Handler Steve Wise
2006-12-10 22:36 ` [PATCH v3 08/13] Memory Registration Steve Wise
2006-12-10 22:37 ` [PATCH v3 09/13] Core WQE/CQE Types Steve Wise
2006-12-10 22:37 ` [PATCH v3 10/13] Core HAL Steve Wise
2006-12-10 22:38 ` [PATCH v3 11/13] Core Resource Allocation Steve Wise
2006-12-10 22:38 ` [PATCH v3 12/13] Core Debug functions Steve Wise
2006-12-10 22:39 ` [PATCH v3 13/13] Kconfig/Makefile Steve Wise
2006-12-10 22:56   ` Randy Dunlap
2006-12-10 23:04     ` Steve WIse [this message]
2006-12-11  5:02     ` Roland Dreier
2006-12-11  4:02 ` [PATCH v3 00/13] 2.6.20 Chelsio T3 RDMA Driver Roland Dreier
2006-12-11 15:36   ` Steve Wise
2006-12-11 19:25     ` Divy Le Ray
2006-12-11 19:49       ` Divy Le Ray

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