Re: [PATCH v7 1/8] interconnect: Add generic on-chip interconnect API

[Evan Green]

On Tue, Jul 31, 2018 at 9:13 AM Georgi Djakov <georgi.djakov@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> This patch introduces a new API to get requirements and configure the
> interconnect buses across the entire chipset to fit with the current
> demand.
>
> The API is using a consumer/provider-based model, where the providers are
> the interconnect buses and the consumers could be various drivers.
> The consumers request interconnect resources (path) between endpoints and
> set the desired constraints on this data flow path. The providers receive
> requests from consumers and aggregate these requests for all master-slave
> pairs on that path. Then the providers configure each participating in the
> topology node according to the requested data flow path, physical links and
> constraints. The topology could be complicated and multi-tiered and is SoC
> specific.
>
> Signed-off-by: Georgi Djakov <georgi.djakov@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  Documentation/interconnect/interconnect.rst |  96 ++++
>  drivers/Kconfig                             |   2 +
>  drivers/Makefile                            |   1 +
>  drivers/interconnect/Kconfig                |  10 +
>  drivers/interconnect/Makefile               |   2 +
>  drivers/interconnect/core.c                 | 569 ++++++++++++++++++++
>  include/linux/interconnect-provider.h       | 125 +++++
>  include/linux/interconnect.h                |  42 ++
>  8 files changed, 847 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 Documentation/interconnect/interconnect.rst
>  create mode 100644 drivers/interconnect/Kconfig
>  create mode 100644 drivers/interconnect/Makefile
>  create mode 100644 drivers/interconnect/core.c
>  create mode 100644 include/linux/interconnect-provider.h
>  create mode 100644 include/linux/interconnect.h
>

Thanks Georgi. This looks great!

Reviewed-by: Evan Green <evgreen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>