Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: [PATCH v3 0/3] uio: add MSI/MSI-X support to uio_pci_generic driver | | From | Vlad Zolotarov <> | | Date | Sun, 4 Oct 2015 23:45:10 +0300 |
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This is the same v3 but with the correct email address of Greg. In the first iteration the first letter of the email was missing... ;)
On 10/04/15 23:43, Vlad Zolotarov wrote: > This series add support for MSI and MSI-X interrupts to uio_pci_generic driver. > > Currently uio_pci_generic supports only legacy INT#x interrupts source. However > there are situations when this is not enough, for instance SR-IOV VF devices that > simply don't have INT#x capability. For such devices uio_pci_generic will simply > fail (more specifically probe() will fail). > > When IOMMU is either not available (e.g. Amazon EC2) or not acceptable due to performance > overhead and thus VFIO is not an option users that develop user-space drivers are left > without any option but to develop some proprietary UIO drivers (e.g. igb_uio driver in Intel's > DPDK) just to be able to use UIO infrastructure. > > This series provides a generic solution for this problem while preserving the original behaviour > for devices for which the original uio_pci_generic had worked before (i.e. INT#x will be used by default). > > New in v3: > - Add __iomem qualifier to temp buffer receiving ioremap value. > > New in v2: > - Added #include <linux/uaccess.h> to uio_pci_generic.c > > Vlad Zolotarov (3): > uio: add ioctl support > uio_pci_generic: add MSI/MSI-X support > Documentation: update uio-howto > > Documentation/DocBook/uio-howto.tmpl | 29 ++- > drivers/uio/uio.c | 15 ++ > drivers/uio/uio_pci_generic.c | 410 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-- > include/linux/uio_driver.h | 3 + > include/linux/uio_pci_generic.h | 36 +++ > 5 files changed, 467 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-) > create mode 100644 include/linux/uio_pci_generic.h >
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