[PATCH 00/83] AMD HSA kernel driver

[Daniel Vetter]

On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 8:04 PM, Jerome Glisse <j.glisse at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Yes although it can be skipped on most systems. We figured that topology
>> needed to cover everything that would be handled by a single OS image, so
>> in a NUMA system it would need to cover all the CPUs. I think that is still
>> the right scope, do you agree ?
>
> I think it is a idea to duplicate cpu. I would rather have each device
> give its afinity against each cpu and for cpu just keep the existing
> kernel api that expose this through sysfs iirc.

It's all there already if we fix up the hsa dev-node model to expose
one dev node per underlying device instead of one for everything:
- cpus already expose the full numa topology in sysfs
- pci devices have a numa_node file in sysfs to display the link
- we can easily add similar stuff for platform devices on arm socs
without pci devices.

Then the only thing userspace needs to do is follow the device link in
the hsa instance node in sysfs and we have all the information
exposed. Iff we expose one hsa driver instance to userspace per
physical device (which is the normal linux device driver model
anyway).

I don't see a need to add anything hsa specific here at all (well
maybe some description of the cache architecture on the hsa device
itself, the spec seems to have provisions for that).
-Daniel
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