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Date:	Fri, 24 Aug 2007 09:43:46 -0700
From:	"Nelson, Shannon" <shannon.nelson@...el.com>
To:	"Randy Dunlap" <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>
Cc:	<akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	<davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: RE: [PATCH v2 -mm 6/7] DCA: Add Direct Cache Access driver

Randy Dunlap [mailto:randy.dunlap@...cle.com] 
>
>On Thu, 23 Aug 2007 17:15:22 -0700 Shannon Nelson wrote:
>
>> Signed-off-by: Shannon Nelson <shannon.nelson@...el.com>
>> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
>> ---
>> 
>>  drivers/Kconfig         |    2 +
>>  drivers/Makefile        |    1 
>>  drivers/dca/Kconfig     |   11 +++
>>  drivers/dca/Makefile    |    2 +
>>  drivers/dca/dca-core.c  |  168 
>+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>  drivers/dca/dca-sysfs.c |   88 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>  include/linux/dca.h     |   47 +++++++++++++
>>  7 files changed, 319 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>> 
>> diff --git a/drivers/dca/Kconfig b/drivers/dca/Kconfig
>> new file mode 100644
>> index 0000000..d901615
>> --- /dev/null
>> +++ b/drivers/dca/Kconfig
>> @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
>> +#
>> +# DCA server configuration
>> +#
>> +
>> +config DCA
>> +	tristate "DCA support for clients and providers"
>> +	---help---
>> +          This is a server to help modules that want to use 
>Direct Cache
>> +	  Access to find DCA providers that will supply correct 
>CPU tags.
>> +	default m
>
>We conventionally put help text last in each config entry.
>& Help text should be indented by 1 tab + 2 spaces.
>
>> diff --git a/drivers/dca/dca-core.c b/drivers/dca/dca-core.c
>> new file mode 100644
>> index 0000000..c0ff9bd
>> --- /dev/null
>> +++ b/drivers/dca/dca-core.c
>> @@ -0,0 +1,168 @@
>> +/*
>> + * Copyright(c) 2007 Intel Corporation. All rights reserved.
>> + *
>> +/*
>> + * This driver supports an interface for DCA clients and 
>providers to meet.
>> + */
>> +
>> +#include <linux/kernel.h>
>> +#include <linux/notifier.h>
>> +#include <linux/device.h>
>> +#include <linux/dca.h>
>> +
>> +MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
>> +
>> +/* For now we're assuming a single, global, DCA provider 
>for the system. */
>> +
>> +static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(dca_lock);
>> +
>> +struct dca_provider *global_dca = NULL;
>
>Can global_dca be static, or is it used in other source files?

Yes, this should be static.  I'll fix this.

>
>It would be good to have all of these global/exported interfaces
>documented somewhere.  Did I miss it in another file?
>If not, you could use kernel-doc to add inline function docs.
>See Documentation/kernel-doc-nano-HOWTO.txt.

I'll add the block comments.

>
>> +u8 dca_get_tag(int cpu)
>> +{
>> +	if (!global_dca)
>> +		return -ENODEV;
>> +	return global_dca->ops->get_tag(global_dca, cpu);
>> +}
>> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(dca_get_tag);
>> +
>
>> +
>> +static BLOCKING_NOTIFIER_HEAD(dca_provider_chain);
>> +
>> +
>> +static int __init dca_init(void)
>> +{
>> +	int err;
>> +
>> +	err = dca_sysfs_init();
>> +	if (err)
>> +		return err;
>> +	return 0;
>
>or just (in all cases):
>
>	return err;
>
>> +}

Yep, will do.

Thanks for the comments,
sln
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Shannon.Nelson@...el.com                I don't speak for Intel
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