[PATCH 05/14] cxl: Allow a default context to be associated with an external pci_dev
Frederic Barrat
fbarrat at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Thu Jul 7 02:51:02 AEST 2016
Le 04/07/2016 15:22, Ian Munsie a écrit :
> From: Ian Munsie <imunsie at au1.ibm.com>
>
> The cxl kernel API has a concept of a default context associated with
> each PCI device under the virtual PHB. The Mellanox CX4 will also use
> the cxl kernel API, but it does not use a virtual PHB - rather, the AFU
> appears as a physical function as a peer to the networking functions.
>
> In order to allow the kernel API to work with those networking
> functions, we will need to associate a default context with them as
> well. To this end, refactor the corresponding code to do this in vphb.c
> and export it so that it can be called from the PHB code.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ian Munsie <imunsie at au1.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Frederic Barrat <fbarrat at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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