Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757945Ab3HMMnR (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Aug 2013 08:43:17 -0400 Received: from atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz ([195.113.26.193]:60670 "EHLO atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757494Ab3HMMnM (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Aug 2013 08:43:12 -0400 Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2013 14:43:11 +0200 From: Pavel Machek To: Sudeep Dutt Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , Arnd Bergmann , Rusty Russell , "Michael S. Tsirkin" , Rob Landley , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, Nikhil Rao , Ashutosh Dixit , Caz Yokoyama , Dasaratharaman Chandramouli , Harshavardhan R Kharche , "Yaozu (Eddie) Dong" , Peter P Waskiewicz Jr Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] Enable Drivers for Intel MIC X100 Coprocessors. Message-ID: <20130813124311.GA18426@amd.pavel.ucw.cz> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2364 Lines: 53 Hi! > Since it is a PCIe card, it does not have the ability to host hardware > devices for networking, storage and console. We provide these devices > on X100 coprocessors thus enabling a self-bootable equivalent environment > for applications. A key benefit of our solution is that it leverages > the standard virtio framework for network, disk and console devices, > though in our case the virtio framework is used across a PCIe bus. Interesting... > Documentation/mic/mic_overview.txt | 48 + > Documentation/mic/mpssd/.gitignore | 1 + > Documentation/mic/mpssd/Makefile | 20 + > Documentation/mic/mpssd/micctrl | 157 +++ > Documentation/mic/mpssd/mpss | 246 +++++ > Documentation/mic/mpssd/mpssd.c | 1732 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > Documentation/mic/mpssd/mpssd.h | 105 +++ > Documentation/mic/mpssd/sysfs.c | 108 +++ > drivers/misc/Kconfig | 1 + > drivers/misc/Makefile | 1 + > drivers/misc/mic/Kconfig | 56 ++ > drivers/misc/mic/Makefile | 6 + > drivers/misc/mic/card/Makefile | 11 + > drivers/misc/mic/card/mic_common.h | 43 + > drivers/misc/mic/card/mic_debugfs.c | 139 +++ > drivers/misc/mic/card/mic_debugfs.h | 40 + > drivers/misc/mic/card/mic_device.c | 311 ++++++ > drivers/misc/mic/card/mic_device.h | 106 +++ > drivers/misc/mic/card/mic_virtio.c | 643 +++++++++++++ > drivers/misc/mic/card/mic_virtio.h | 79 ++ > drivers/misc/mic/card/mic_x100.c | 253 +++++ > drivers/misc/mic/card/mic_x100.h | 53 ++ > drivers/misc/mic/common/mic_device.h | 85 ++ > drivers/misc/mic/host/Makefile | 13 + > drivers/misc/mic/host/mic_boot.c | 181 ++++ So... there are basically separate computers running on PCIe card plugged into host computer, right? Maybe we should have something more promintent than drivers/misc for this, then? Like drivers/multicomputer? Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/