misc: mic: SCIF fence
authorSudeep Dutt <sudeep.dutt@intel.com>
Wed, 30 Sep 2015 01:16:19 +0000 (18:16 -0700)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Sun, 4 Oct 2015 11:54:54 +0000 (12:54 +0100)
commit564c8d8dfc39638978ac37d37f61733240f31a36
tree19d428166bf32aa08ee8901f5cf6baeca6d8b269
parent7cc31cd27752e5e92f968e39095c4ea9d78c758e
misc: mic: SCIF fence

This patch implements the fence APIs required to synchronize
DMAs. SCIF provides an interface to return a "mark" for all DMAs
programmed at the instant the API was called. Users can then "wait" on
the mark provided previously by blocking inside the kernel. Upon
receipt of a DMA completion interrupt the waiting thread is woken
up. There is also an interface to signal DMA completion by polling for
a location to be updated via a "signal" cookie to avoid the interrupt
overhead in the mark/wait interface. SCIF allows programming fences on
both the local and the remote node for both the mark/wait or the fence
signal APIs.

Reviewed-by: Ashutosh Dixit <ashutosh.dixit@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Nikhil Rao <nikhil.rao@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jacek Lawrynowicz <jacek.lawrynowicz@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Sudeep Dutt <sudeep.dutt@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/misc/mic/scif/scif_fence.c [new file with mode: 0644]