Re: [E1000-devel] Question about HMC in i40e network driver

[Williams, M. A <mit...@in...>]

Host Memory Cache. It's where the hardware stashes its internal state information. The driver doesn't touch it at runtime, only when it's setting up and tearing down the device's internal switch.

-Mitch

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kevin Wilson [mailto:wk...@gm...]
> Sent: Friday, June 30, 2017 1:36 AM
> To: e10...@li...
> Subject: [E1000-devel] Question about HMC in i40e network driver
> 
> Hi,
> I see that in the i40e network driver, HMC is mentioned several times:
> http://elixir.free-
> electrons.com/linux/latest/source/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_main.
> c#L3083
> 
> My question is: what is HMC?
> 
> Regards,
> Kevin
> 
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