From: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>
To: Sinan Kaya <okaya@codeaurora.org>
Cc: dmaengine@vger.kernel.org, marc.zyngier@arm.com,
mark.rutland@arm.com, timur@codeaurora.org,
devicetree@vger.kernel.org, cov@codeaurora.org,
vinod.koul@intel.com, jcm@redhat.com, vikrams@codeaurora.org,
arnd@arndb.de, eric.auger@linaro.org,
linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, agross@codeaurora.org,
shankerd@codeaurora.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH V14 0/9] dma: add Qualcomm Technologies HIDMA driver
Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2016 11:14:32 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160208101432.GA1150@cbox> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1454646882-24369-1-git-send-email-okaya@codeaurora.org>
Hi Sinan,
On Thu, Feb 04, 2016 at 11:34:31PM -0500, Sinan Kaya wrote:
> The Qualcomm Technologies HIDMA device has been designed
> to support virtualization technology. The driver has been
> divided into two to follow the hardware design.
>
> 1. HIDMA Management driver
> 2. HIDMA Channel driver
>
> Each HIDMA HW consists of multiple channels. These channels
> share some set of common parameters. These parameters are
> initialized by the management driver during power up.
> Same management driver is used for monitoring the execution
> of the channels. Management driver can change the performance
> behavior dynamically such as bandwidth allocation and
> prioritization in the future.
>
> The management driver is executed in host context and
> is the main management entity for all channels provided by
> the device.
I'm not at all familiar with this kind of hardware.
Once an entity (userspace or VM) has a HIDAM channel assigned via VFIO,
how does it use it? Is it used in relation with another device to
perform DMA on its behalf or is a HIDMA channel something that's useful
on its own?
Thanks,
-Christoffer
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-02-08 10:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-02-05 4:34 [PATCH V14 0/9] dma: add Qualcomm Technologies HIDMA driver Sinan Kaya
2016-02-05 4:34 ` [PATCH V14 1/9] dma: qcom_bam_dma: move to qcom directory Sinan Kaya
2016-03-11 2:13 ` Vinod Koul
2016-02-05 4:34 ` [PATCH V14 2/9] dma: hidma: Add Device Tree binding Sinan Kaya
2016-03-11 2:16 ` Vinod Koul
2016-02-05 4:34 ` [PATCH V14 3/9] dma: add Qualcomm Technologies HIDMA management driver Sinan Kaya
2016-03-11 2:16 ` Vinod Koul
2016-02-05 4:34 ` [PATCH V14 4/9] dma: add Qualcomm Technologies HIDMA channel driver Sinan Kaya
2016-03-11 2:17 ` Vinod Koul
2016-02-05 4:34 ` [PATCH V14 5/9] dma: qcom_hidma: implement lower level hardware interface Sinan Kaya
2016-03-11 2:06 ` Vinod Koul
2016-03-11 3:08 ` Okaya
2016-03-11 16:02 ` Sinan Kaya
2016-03-11 16:32 ` Vinod Koul
2016-03-11 16:44 ` Sinan Kaya
2016-03-11 19:29 ` Sinan Kaya
2016-03-11 21:59 ` Sinan Kaya
2016-03-13 16:00 ` Vinod Koul
2016-03-14 13:53 ` Sinan Kaya
2016-03-13 15:59 ` Vinod Koul
2016-03-14 13:56 ` Sinan Kaya
2016-02-05 4:34 ` [PATCH V14 6/9] dma: qcom_hidma: add debugfs hooks Sinan Kaya
2016-02-05 4:34 ` [PATCH V14 7/9] dma: qcom_hidma: add support for object hierarchy Sinan Kaya
2016-02-05 4:34 ` [PATCH V14 8/9] vfio, platform: add support for ACPI while detecting the reset driver Sinan Kaya
2016-02-26 16:24 ` Sinan Kaya
2016-02-26 17:15 ` Eric Auger
2016-02-26 19:21 ` Sinan Kaya
2016-03-02 18:34 ` Sinan Kaya
2016-03-03 23:14 ` Eric Auger
2016-03-04 5:20 ` Sinan Kaya
2016-03-07 4:09 ` Eric Auger
2016-03-07 15:30 ` Sinan Kaya
2016-03-08 4:46 ` Eric Auger
2016-03-08 5:07 ` Sinan Kaya
2016-03-08 15:44 ` Sinan Kaya
2016-02-05 4:34 ` [PATCH V14 9/9] vfio, platform: add QTI HIDMA " Sinan Kaya
2016-02-26 17:52 ` Eric Auger
2016-02-26 19:05 ` Sinan Kaya
2016-02-08 10:14 ` Christoffer Dall [this message]
2016-02-08 14:24 ` [PATCH V14 0/9] dma: add Qualcomm Technologies HIDMA driver Sinan Kaya
2016-02-08 17:00 ` Christoffer Dall
2016-02-26 16:21 ` Sinan Kaya
2016-02-26 16:52 ` Timur Tabi
2016-03-02 18:40 ` Sinan Kaya
2016-03-03 3:44 ` Vinod Koul
2016-03-03 15:22 ` Sinan Kaya
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