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Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2025 12:55:27 +0530
From: Vinod Koul <vkoul@...nel.org>
To: Yi Sun <yi.sun@...el.com>
Cc: vinicius.gomes@...el.com, dave.jiang@...el.com,
dmaengine@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
gordon.jin@...el.com, fenghuay@...dia.com, yi1.lai@...el.com,
Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] dmaengine: idxd: Expose DSA3.0 capabilities
through sysfs
On 21-08-25, 16:51, Yi Sun wrote:
> Introduce sysfs interfaces for 3 new Data Streaming Accelerator (DSA)
> capability registers (dsacap0-2) to enable userspace awareness of hardware
> features in DSA version 3 and later devices.
>
> Userspace components (e.g. configure libraries, workload Apps) require this
> information to:
> 1. Select optimal data transfer strategies based on SGL capabilities
> 2. Enable hardware-specific optimizations for floating-point operations
> 3. Configure memory operations with proper numerical handling
> 4. Verify compute operation compatibility before submitting jobs
>
> The output format is <dsacap2>,<dsacap1>,<dsacap0>, where each DSA
> capability value is a 64-bit hexadecimal number, separated by commas.
> The ordering follows the DSA 3.0 specification layout:
> Offset: 0x190 0x188 0x180
> Reg: dsacap2 dsacap1 dsacap0
>
> Example:
> cat /sys/bus/dsa/devices/dsa0/dsacaps
> 000000000000f18d,0014000e000007aa,00fa01ff01ff03ff
sysfs are supposed to be single values only, should we rather do per
capability? Also in future if you have more than three...? what happens
then?
--
~Vinod
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