Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 16 May 2017 10:02:40 +0530 | From | Vinod Koul <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v8 0/4] Broadcom SBA RAID support |
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On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 10:34:51AM +0530, Anup Patel wrote: > The Broadcom SBA RAID is a stream-based device which provides > RAID5/6 offload. > > It requires a SoC specific ring manager (such as Broadcom FlexRM > ring manager) to provide ring-based programming interface. Due to > this, the Broadcom SBA RAID driver (mailbox client) implements > DMA device having one DMA channel using a set of mailbox channels > provided by Broadcom SoC specific ring manager driver (mailbox > controller). > > The Broadcom SBA RAID hardware requires PQ disk position instead > of PQ disk coefficient. To address this, we have added raid_gflog > table which will help driver to convert PQ disk coefficient to PQ > disk position.
Applied, now
-- ~Vinod
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