Re: [PATCH 03/17] fpga: dfl: fme: support 512bit data width PR

From: Alan Tull
Date: Mon Mar 25 2019 - 14:49:33 EST


On Sun, Mar 24, 2019 at 10:23 PM Wu Hao <hao.wu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi Hao,

This looks fine.

>
> In early partial reconfiguration private feature, it only
> supports 32bit data width when writing data to hardware for
> PR. 512bit data width PR support is an important optimization
> for some specific solutions (e.g. XEON with FPGA integrated),
> it allows driver to use AVX512 instruction to improve the
> performance of partial reconfiguration. e.g. programming one
> 100MB bitstream image via this 512bit data width PR hardware
> only takes ~300ms, but 32bit revision requires ~3s per test
> result.
>
> Please note now this optimization is only done on revision 2
> of this PR private feature which is only used in integrated
> solution that AVX512 is always supported.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ananda Ravuri <ananda.ravuri@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Xu Yilun <yilun.xu@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Wu Hao <hao.wu@xxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Alan Tull <atull@xxxxxxxxxx>