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SubjectRe: [PATCH V3 2/4] misc: vop: do not allocate and reassign the used ring
On Thu, Oct 29, 2020 at 11:07:27AM +0100, Vincent Whitchurch wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 28, 2020 at 04:50:36PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > I think we should try to do something on top of the PCIe endpoint subsystem
> > to make it work across arbitrary combinations of host and device
> > implementations,
> > and provide a superset of what the MIC driver, (out-of-tree) Bluefield endpoint
> > driver, and the NTB subsystem as well as a couple of others used to do,
> > each of them tunneling block/network/serial/... over a PCIe link of some
> > sort, usually with virtio.
>
> VOP is not PCIe-specific (as demonstrated by the vop-loopback patches I
> posted a while ago [1]), and it would be a shame for a replacement to be
> tied to the PCIe endpoint subsystem. There are many SOCs out there
> which have multiple Linux-capable processors without cache-coherency
> between them. VOP is (or should I say was since I guess it's being
> deleted) the closest we have in mainline to easily get generic virtio
> (and not just rpmsg) running between these kind of Linux instances. If
> a new replacement framework were to be PCIe-exclusive then we'd have to
> invent one more framework for non-PCIe links to do pretty much the same
> thing.
>
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190403104746.16063-1-vincent.whitchurch@axis.com/

If this works well, please restore the existing code and move it to a
new directory and we can take it from there, right?

thanks,

greg k-h

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