lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2017]   [Aug]   [25]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
From
SubjectRe: [PATCH v7 08/12] powerpc/vas: Define vas_win_id()
Date
Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com> writes:

> Define an interface to return a system-wide unique id for a given VAS
> window.
>
> The vas_win_id() will be used in a follow-on patch to generate an unique
> handle for a user space receive window. Applications can use this handle
> to pair send and receive windows for fast thread-wakeup.
>
> The hardware refers to this system-wide unique id as a Partition Send
> Window ID which is expected to be used during fault handling. Hence the
> "pswid" in the function names.

Same comment as previous patch.

cheers

\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2017-08-25 11:38    [W:1.602 / U:0.844 seconds]
©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site