1. 27 3月, 2006 1 次提交
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      [PATCH] spufs: implement mfc access for PPE-side DMA · a33a7d73
      Arnd Bergmann 提交于
      This patch adds a new file called 'mfc' to each spufs directory.
      The file accepts DMA commands that are a subset of what would
      be legal DMA commands for problem state register access. Upon
      reading the file, a bitmask is returned with the completed
      tag groups set.
      
      The file is meant to be used from an abstraction in libspe
      that is added by a different patch.
      
      From the kernel perspective, this means a process can now
      offload a memory copy from or into an SPE local store
      without having to run code on the SPE itself.
      
      The transfer will only be performed while the SPE is owned
      by one thread that is waiting in the spu_run system call
      and the data will be transferred into that thread's
      address space, independent of which thread started the
      transfer.
      Signed-off-by: NArnd Bergmann <arnd.bergmann@de.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      a33a7d73
  2. 09 1月, 2006 8 次提交