[Skiboot] [PATCH 0/6] npu2: Add support for relaxed-ordering mode

Reza Arbab arbab at linux.ibm.com
Thu Aug 2 06:12:35 AEST 2018


On Wed, Aug 01, 2018 at 03:01:13PM -0500, Reza Arbab wrote:
>We've only recently been given a suitable driver stack and hardware with which
>to test relaxed ordering, so I took the work Alistair had stashed away some
>time ago and fleshed it out.
>
>Patches 1-4 are very simple prep, but I thought the main patch was easier to
>read with them separated out.
>
>In light testing, GPUDirect throughput to an InfiniBand adapter increases ~3.6x
>when relaxed ordering is enabled.
>
>v3:
>* Add new OPAL APIs and ibm,phb-pec-index to documentation
>* Reword commit log of "npu2: Add support for relaxed-ordering mode"

Doh! I forgot to do --subject-prefix="PATCH v3" for these. Sorry.

-- 
Reza Arbab



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