The goal of a platform driver is to execute chained accel operations in
the most efficient way possible. A driver is aware of the hardware
available on a platform and can execute several operations as a single
one. For instance, if we want to do DMA and then encrypt the data, the
driver can do both at the same time, if the hardware is capable of doing
that.
Platform drivers aren't required to support all operations. If a given
operation cannot be executed, the driver should notify accel to continue
processing a sequence, via spdk_accel_sequence_continue(), and that
operation will processed by a module assigned to its opcode.
It is required however, that all platform drivers support memory
domains, including the "virtual" accel domain. A method for allocating
those buffers will be added in the following patches.
This patch only adds methods to register and select platorm drivers, but
doesn't change the way a sequnce is executed (i.e. it doesn't use the
driver to execute it).
Signed-off-by: Konrad Sztyber <konrad.sztyber@intel.com>
Change-Id: I97a0b07e264601ab3cf980735319fe8cea54d38e
Reviewed-on: https://review.spdk.io/gerrit/c/spdk/spdk/+/16375
Tested-by: SPDK CI Jenkins <sys_sgci@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Aleksey Marchuk <alexeymar@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul Luse <paul.e.luse@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Ben Walker <benjamin.walker@intel.com>
The current version of the SPDK documentation can be found online at
http://www.spdk.io/doc/
Building the Documentation
To convert the documentation into HTML run make in the doc
directory. The output will be located in doc/output/html. Before
running make ensure all pre-requisites are installed. See
Installing Prerequisites
for more details.
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