Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 31 Jul 2012 11:35:33 +0800 | Subject | Re: [RFC v2 1/2] PCI-Express Non-Transparent Bridge Support | From | Jianbin Kang <> |
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> I've tried to make it all generic enough that non-Intel NTBs should plug in with > minimal changes to ntb_hw.c. If their design is too divergent, then a slight > redesign of ntb_hw.c might be necessary. But from what I've seen of other > designs on the internet, they appear to be extremely similar. The transport and > client drivers were written with the hardware abstracted away as much as > possible to prevent the need to modify it for different hardware. If there is > anything which is Intel hardware specific, I'd be happy to change it to make it > more generic. In ntb_process_tx(), ntb uses hard-coding 'memcpy_toio' to copy data to remote. Is it better to provide a function pointer like 'tx()' and call qp->tx(). memcpy_toio is a slow operation. Some hardware can setup a dma transfer and wait.
IMHO, the best way is to handle tx in async mode. But it requires lots of modification.
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