[RFC PATCH 1/7] vfio/spimdev: Add documents for WarpDrive framework

Tian, Kevin kevin.tian at intel.com
Thu Aug 2 14:41:32 AEST 2018


> From: Kenneth Lee
> Sent: Thursday, August 2, 2018 12:23 PM
> 
> On Thu, Aug 02, 2018 at 03:14:38AM +0000, Tian, Kevin wrote:
> >
> > > From: Kenneth Lee
> > > Sent: Wednesday, August 1, 2018 6:22 PM
> > >
> > > From: Kenneth Lee <liguozhu at hisilicon.com>
> > >
> > > WarpDrive is a common user space accelerator framework.  Its main
> > > component
> > > in Kernel is called spimdev, Share Parent IOMMU Mediated Device. It
> >
> > Not sure whether "share parent IOMMU" is a good term here. better
> > stick to what capabity you bring to user space, instead of describing
> > internal trick...
> Agree. The "SPI" is also strongly hint to "Share Peripheral Interrupt" or
> "Serial
> Peripheral Interface". Personally I hate this name. But I cannot find a better
> one. In the user space, we can use a impassible name (WarpDrive). But
> kernel
> require a name point to its feature... maybe I should use "Process-Shared
> Mdev"
> in next version?

or maybe no new name. Just stick to mdev but introducing some
new attribute/capability to indicate such purpose.

Thanks
Kevin


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