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

2017-11-02 Thread David Daney
On 11/02/2017 11:04 AM, Florian Fainelli wrote: On 11/02/2017 09:27 AM, David Daney wrote: On 11/01/2017 08:29 PM, Florian Fainelli wrote: Le 11/01/17 à 17:36, David Daney a écrit : From: Carlos Munoz From the hardware user manual: "The FPA is a unit that maintains pools of pointers to fre

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

2017-11-02 Thread Florian Fainelli
On 11/02/2017 09:27 AM, David Daney wrote: > On 11/01/2017 08:29 PM, Florian Fainelli wrote: >> Le 11/01/17 à 17:36, David Daney a écrit : >>> From: Carlos Munoz >>> >>> From the hardware user manual: "The FPA is a unit that maintains >>> pools of pointers to free L2/DRAM memory. To provide QoS,

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

2017-11-02 Thread David Daney
On 11/01/2017 08:29 PM, Florian Fainelli wrote: Le 11/01/17 à 17:36, David Daney a écrit : From: Carlos Munoz 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

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

2017-11-02 Thread James Hogan
On Wed, Nov 01, 2017 at 05:36:03PM -0700, David Daney wrote: > diff --git a/arch/mips/cavium-octeon/Kconfig b/arch/mips/cavium-octeon/Kconfig > index 5c0b56203bae..211ef5b57214 100644 > --- a/arch/mips/cavium-octeon/Kconfig > +++ b/arch/mips/cavium-octeon/Kconfig > @@ -86,4 +86,14 @@ config OCTEON_

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

2017-11-01 Thread Florian Fainelli
Le 11/01/17 à 17:36, David Daney a écrit : > From: Carlos Munoz > > 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 alloca

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

2017-11-01 Thread David Daney
From: Carlos Munoz >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." Signed-off-by: Carlos Munoz S