[PATCH v5 00/10] Driver of Intel(R) Gaussian & Neural Accelerator

Andy Shevchenko andy.shevchenko at gmail.com
Thu Oct 20 19:08:01 UTC 2022


On Thu, Oct 20, 2022 at 8:57 PM Maciej Kwapulinski
<maciej.kwapulinski at linux.intel.com> wrote:
>
> Dear kernel maintainers,
>
> This submission is a kernel driver to support Intel(R) Gaussian & Neural
> Accelerator (Intel(R) GNA). Intel(R) GNA is a PCI-based neural co-processor
> available on multiple Intel platforms. AI developers and users can offload
> continuous inference workloads to an Intel(R) GNA device in order to free
> processor resources and save power. Noise reduction and speech recognition
> are the examples of the workloads Intel(R) GNA deals with while its usage
> is not limited to the two.
>
> For a list of processors equipped with Intel(R) GNA device, please refer to
> this link:
> https://docs.openvinotoolkit.org/latest/openvino_docs_IE_DG_supported_plugins_GNA.html
>
> We think contributing this driver to the upstream kernel project is the
> best way for developers and users to get the latest Intel(R) GNA support in
> a Linux kernel, through the mainline to any Linux distributions installed
> on their systems. Upstreaming also enables contribution from developers
> around the world to the driver once it is merged.

Can you replace all those dev_dbg():s by trace events/points?

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko


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