Non-Blocking Design

Linux Drivers

Release Date
2023-07-22

Buffers can now be submitted without blocking for completion. This allows multiple buffers to be submitted and queued along with multiple threads. A blocking wait for the completion of a buffer is also supported to complement the non-blocking submission. The ioctl function of the driver was altered to allow the transfer type to be specified using XFER for the legacy blocking call, START_XFER for starting a transfer using a non-blocking call, and FINISH_XFER to block waiting from the completion of a previously started transfer.