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Re: [PATCH v6 0/4] Broadcom SBA RAID support

Started byDan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
First post2017-03-14 18:00 +0100
Last post2017-03-15 09:10 +0100
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  Re: [PATCH v6 0/4] Broadcom SBA RAID support Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> - 2017-03-14 18:00 +0100
    Re: [PATCH v6 0/4] Broadcom SBA RAID support Shaohua Li <shli@kernel.org> - 2017-03-14 19:50 +0100
      Re: [PATCH v6 0/4] Broadcom SBA RAID support Anup Patel <anup.patel@broadcom.com> - 2017-03-15 09:10 +0100
    Re: [PATCH v6 0/4] Broadcom SBA RAID support Anup Patel <anup.patel@broadcom.com> - 2017-03-15 09:10 +0100

#1600697 — Re: [PATCH v6 0/4] Broadcom SBA RAID support

FromDan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Date2017-03-14 18:00 +0100
SubjectRe: [PATCH v6 0/4] Broadcom SBA RAID support
Message-ID<tkXXI-2UI-1@gated-at.bofh.it>
On Mon, Mar 6, 2017 at 1:43 AM, Anup Patel <anup.patel@broadcom.com> wrote:
> The Broadcom SBA RAID is a stream-based device which provides
> RAID5/6 offload.
>
> It requires a SoC specific ring manager (such as Broadcom FlexRM
> ring manager) to provide ring-based programming interface. Due to
> this, the Broadcom SBA RAID driver (mailbox client) implements
> DMA device having one DMA channel using a set of mailbox channels
> provided by Broadcom SoC specific ring manager driver (mailbox
> controller).
>
> The Broadcom SBA RAID hardware requires PQ disk position instead
> of PQ disk coefficient. To address this, we have added raid_gflog
> table which will help driver to convert PQ disk coefficient to PQ
> disk position.
>
> This patchset is based on Linux-4.11-rc1 and depends on patchset
> "[PATCH v5 0/2] Broadcom FlexRM ring manager support"
>
> It is also available at sba-raid-v6 branch of
> https://github.com/Broadcom/arm64-linux.git
>
[..]
>
> Anup Patel (4):
>   lib/raid6: Add log-of-2 table for RAID6 HW requiring disk position
>   async_tx: Fix DMA_PREP_FENCE usage in do_async_gen_syndrome()
>   dmaengine: Add Broadcom SBA RAID driver
>   dt-bindings: Add DT bindings document for Broadcom SBA RAID driver

For the dmaengine and async_tx changes:

Acked-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>

The raid change should get an ack from Shaohua.

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#1600802

FromShaohua Li <shli@kernel.org>
Date2017-03-14 19:50 +0100
Message-ID<tkZGa-4eI-7@gated-at.bofh.it>
In reply to#1600697
On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 09:56:35AM -0700, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 6, 2017 at 1:43 AM, Anup Patel <anup.patel@broadcom.com> wrote:
> > The Broadcom SBA RAID is a stream-based device which provides
> > RAID5/6 offload.
> >
> > It requires a SoC specific ring manager (such as Broadcom FlexRM
> > ring manager) to provide ring-based programming interface. Due to
> > this, the Broadcom SBA RAID driver (mailbox client) implements
> > DMA device having one DMA channel using a set of mailbox channels
> > provided by Broadcom SoC specific ring manager driver (mailbox
> > controller).
> >
> > The Broadcom SBA RAID hardware requires PQ disk position instead
> > of PQ disk coefficient. To address this, we have added raid_gflog
> > table which will help driver to convert PQ disk coefficient to PQ
> > disk position.
> >
> > This patchset is based on Linux-4.11-rc1 and depends on patchset
> > "[PATCH v5 0/2] Broadcom FlexRM ring manager support"
> >
> > It is also available at sba-raid-v6 branch of
> > https://github.com/Broadcom/arm64-linux.git
> >
> [..]
> >
> > Anup Patel (4):
> >   lib/raid6: Add log-of-2 table for RAID6 HW requiring disk position
> >   async_tx: Fix DMA_PREP_FENCE usage in do_async_gen_syndrome()
> >   dmaengine: Add Broadcom SBA RAID driver
> >   dt-bindings: Add DT bindings document for Broadcom SBA RAID driver
> 
> For the dmaengine and async_tx changes:
> 
> Acked-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
> 
> The raid change should get an ack from Shaohua.

For the raid6 part:

Acked-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>

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#1601130

FromAnup Patel <anup.patel@broadcom.com>
Date2017-03-15 09:10 +0100
Message-ID<tlcal-4OJ-11@gated-at.bofh.it>
In reply to#1600802
On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 12:18 AM, Shaohua Li <shli@kernel.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 09:56:35AM -0700, Dan Williams wrote:
>> On Mon, Mar 6, 2017 at 1:43 AM, Anup Patel <anup.patel@broadcom.com> wrote:
>> > The Broadcom SBA RAID is a stream-based device which provides
>> > RAID5/6 offload.
>> >
>> > It requires a SoC specific ring manager (such as Broadcom FlexRM
>> > ring manager) to provide ring-based programming interface. Due to
>> > this, the Broadcom SBA RAID driver (mailbox client) implements
>> > DMA device having one DMA channel using a set of mailbox channels
>> > provided by Broadcom SoC specific ring manager driver (mailbox
>> > controller).
>> >
>> > The Broadcom SBA RAID hardware requires PQ disk position instead
>> > of PQ disk coefficient. To address this, we have added raid_gflog
>> > table which will help driver to convert PQ disk coefficient to PQ
>> > disk position.
>> >
>> > This patchset is based on Linux-4.11-rc1 and depends on patchset
>> > "[PATCH v5 0/2] Broadcom FlexRM ring manager support"
>> >
>> > It is also available at sba-raid-v6 branch of
>> > https://github.com/Broadcom/arm64-linux.git
>> >
>> [..]
>> >
>> > Anup Patel (4):
>> >   lib/raid6: Add log-of-2 table for RAID6 HW requiring disk position
>> >   async_tx: Fix DMA_PREP_FENCE usage in do_async_gen_syndrome()
>> >   dmaengine: Add Broadcom SBA RAID driver
>> >   dt-bindings: Add DT bindings document for Broadcom SBA RAID driver
>>
>> For the dmaengine and async_tx changes:
>>
>> Acked-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
>>
>> The raid change should get an ack from Shaohua.
>
> For the raid6 part:
>
> Acked-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>

Thanks Shaohua ...

Regards,
Anup

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#1601129

FromAnup Patel <anup.patel@broadcom.com>
Date2017-03-15 09:10 +0100
Message-ID<tlcal-4OJ-7@gated-at.bofh.it>
In reply to#1600697
On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 10:26 PM, Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 6, 2017 at 1:43 AM, Anup Patel <anup.patel@broadcom.com> wrote:
>> The Broadcom SBA RAID is a stream-based device which provides
>> RAID5/6 offload.
>>
>> It requires a SoC specific ring manager (such as Broadcom FlexRM
>> ring manager) to provide ring-based programming interface. Due to
>> this, the Broadcom SBA RAID driver (mailbox client) implements
>> DMA device having one DMA channel using a set of mailbox channels
>> provided by Broadcom SoC specific ring manager driver (mailbox
>> controller).
>>
>> The Broadcom SBA RAID hardware requires PQ disk position instead
>> of PQ disk coefficient. To address this, we have added raid_gflog
>> table which will help driver to convert PQ disk coefficient to PQ
>> disk position.
>>
>> This patchset is based on Linux-4.11-rc1 and depends on patchset
>> "[PATCH v5 0/2] Broadcom FlexRM ring manager support"
>>
>> It is also available at sba-raid-v6 branch of
>> https://github.com/Broadcom/arm64-linux.git
>>
> [..]
>>
>> Anup Patel (4):
>>   lib/raid6: Add log-of-2 table for RAID6 HW requiring disk position
>>   async_tx: Fix DMA_PREP_FENCE usage in do_async_gen_syndrome()
>>   dmaengine: Add Broadcom SBA RAID driver
>>   dt-bindings: Add DT bindings document for Broadcom SBA RAID driver
>
> For the dmaengine and async_tx changes:
>
> Acked-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
>

Thanks Dan ...

Regards,
Anup

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