Re: [PATCH 0/5] Support hot-unbind in IOAT

From: Vinod Koul
Date: Mon Dec 23 2019 - 23:50:11 EST


On 16-12-19, 12:01, Logan Gunthorpe wrote:
> Hey,
>
> This patchset creates some common infrastructure which I will use in the
> next version of the PLX driver. It adds a reference count to the
> dma_device struct which is taken and released every time a channel
> is allocated or freed. A call back is used to allow the driver to
> free the underlying memory and do any final cleanup.
>
> For a use-case, I've adjusted the ioat driver to properly support
> hot-unbind. The driver was already pretty close as it already had
> a shutdown state; so it mostly only required freeing the memory
> correctly and calling ioat_shutdown at the correct time.

I didnt find anything else (apart from one change i pointed), so I have
applied this and will fix the comment. No point in delaying this

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~Vinod