linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4/7] MIPS: Octeon: Add Free Pointer Unit (FPA) support.

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Date:   Wed, 1 Nov 2017 20:29:20 -0700
From:   Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
To:     David Daney <david.daney@...ium.com>, linux-mips@...ux-mips.org,
        ralf@...ux-mips.org, James Hogan <james.hogan@...s.com>,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        "Steven J. Hill" <steven.hill@...ium.com>,
        devicetree@...r.kernel.org, Carlos Munoz <cmunoz@...ium.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/7] MIPS: Octeon: Add Free Pointer Unit (FPA) support.

Le 11/01/17 à 17:36, David Daney a écrit :
> From: Carlos Munoz <cmunoz@...ium.com>
> 
> From the hardware user manual: "The FPA is a unit that maintains
> pools of pointers to free L2/DRAM memory. To provide QoS, the pools
> are referenced indirectly through 1024 auras. Both core software
> and hardware units allocate and free pointers."

This looks like a possibly similar implement to what
drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvneta_bm.c, can you see if you can make
any use of genpool_* and include/net/hwbm.h here as well?
-- 
Florian