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Date: Wed, 04 Sep 2013 09:18:40 -0700
From: Sudeep Dutt <sudeep.dutt@...el.com>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>,
Rob Landley <rob@...dley.net>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, Asias He <asias@...hat.com>,
Nikhil Rao <nikhil.rao@...el.com>,
Ashutosh Dixit <ashutosh.dixit@...el.com>,
Caz Yokoyama <Caz.Yokoyama@...el.com>,
Dasaratharaman Chandramouli
<dasaratharaman.chandramouli@...el.com>,
Harshavardhan R Kharche <harshavardhan.r.kharche@...el.com>,
"Yaozu (Eddie) Dong" <eddie.dong@...el.com>,
Peter P Waskiewicz Jr <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@...el.com>,
Sudeep Dutt <sudeep.dutt@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/7] Enable Drivers for Intel MIC X100 Coprocessors.
On Wed, 2013-08-21 at 10:51 -0700, Sudeep Dutt wrote:
> ChangeLog:
> =========
>
> v2 => v3:
> a) Patch 1 data structure cleanups, header file include cleanups,
> IDA interface reuse and switching to device_create_with_groups(..)
> as per feedback from Greg Kroah-Hartman.
> b) Patch 7 signal documentation, sleep workaround removal and sysfs
> access API cleanups as per feedback from Michael S. Tsirkin.
>
> v1 => v2: @ http://lwn.net/Articles/563131/
> a) License wording cleanup, sysfs ABI documentation, patch 1 refactoring
> into 3 smaller patches and function renames, as per feedback from
> Greg Kroah-Hartman.
> b) Use VRINGH infrastructure for accessing virtio rings from the host
> in patch 5, as per feedback from Michael S. Tsirkin.
>
> v1: Initial post @ https://lwn.net/Articles/561314/
>
Hi Greg,
It has been a couple of weeks since we posted v3 @
https://lwn.net/Articles/564795 which addresses all feedback received so
far. Have you had a chance to review this version? Please let us know
your thoughts.
Thanks in advance,
Sudeep Dutt
> Description:
> ============
>
> An Intel MIC X100 device is a PCIe form factor add-in coprocessor
> card based on the Intel Many Integrated Core (MIC) architecture
> that runs a Linux OS. It is a PCIe endpoint in a platform and therefore
> implements the three required standard address spaces i.e. configuration,
> memory and I/O. The host OS loads a device driver as is typical for
> PCIe devices. The card itself runs a bootstrap after reset that
> transfers control to the card OS downloaded from the host driver.
> The card OS as shipped by Intel is a Linux kernel with modifications
> for the X100 devices.
>
> Since it is a PCIe card, it does not have the ability to host hardware
> devices for networking, storage and console. We provide these devices
> on X100 coprocessors thus enabling a self-bootable equivalent environment
> for applications. A key benefit of our solution is that it leverages
> the standard virtio framework for network, disk and console devices,
> though in our case the virtio framework is used across a PCIe bus.
>
> Here is a block diagram of the various components described above. The
> virtio backends are situated on the host rather than the card given better
> single threaded performance for the host compared to MIC, the ability of
> the host to initiate DMA's to/from the card using the MIC DMA engine and
> the fact that the virtio block storage backend can only be on the host.
>
> +----------+ | +----------+
> | Card OS | | | Host OS |
> +----------+ | +----------+
> |
> +-------+ +--------+ +------+ | +---------+ +--------+ +--------+
> | Virtio| |Virtio | |Virtio| | |Virtio | |Virtio | |Virtio |
> | Net | |Console | |Block | | |Net | |Console | |Block |
> | Driver| |Driver | |Driver| | |backend | |backend | |backend |
> +-------+ +--------+ +------+ | +---------+ +--------+ +--------+
> | | | | | | |
> | | | |User | | |
> | | | |------|------------|---------|-------
> +-------------------+ |Kernel +--------------------------+
> | | | Virtio over PCIe IOCTLs |
> | | +--------------------------+
> +--------------+ | |
> |Intel MIC | | +---------------+
> |Card Driver | | |Intel MIC |
> +--------------+ | |Host Driver |
> | | +---------------+
> | | |
> +-------------------------------------------------------------+
> | |
> | PCIe Bus |
> +-------------------------------------------------------------+
>
> The following series of patches are partitioned as follows:
>
> Patch 1: This patch introduces the "Intel MIC Host Driver" in the block
> diagram which does the following:
> a) Initializes the Intel MIC X100 PCIe devices.
> b) Provides sysfs entries for family and stepping information.
>
> Patch 2: This patch enables the following features in the
> "Intel MIC Host Driver" in the block diagram:
> a) MSIx, MSI and legacy interrupt support.
> b) System Memory Page Table(SMPT) support. SMPT enables system memory
> access from the card. On X100 devices the host can program 32 SMPT
> registers each capable of accessing 16GB of system memory
> address space from X100 devices. The registers can thereby be used
> to access a cumulative 512GB of system memory address space from
> X100 devices at any point in time.
>
> Patch 3: This patch enables the following features in the
> "Intel MIC Host Driver" in the block diagram:
> a) Boots and shuts down the card via sysfs entries.
> b) Allocates and maps a device page for communication with the
> card driver and updates the device page address via scratchpad
> registers.
> c) Provides sysfs entries for shutdown status, kernel command line,
> firmware, ramdisk, bootmode and log buffer information.
>
> Patch 4: This patch introduces the "Intel MIC Card Driver" in the block
> diagram which does the following:
> a) Initializes the Intel MIC X100 platform device and driver.
> b) Sets up support to handle shutdown requests from the host.
> c) Maps the device page after obtaining the device page address
> from the scratchpad registers updated by the host.
> d) Informs the host upon a card crash by registering a panic notifier.
> e) Informs the host upon a poweroff/halt event.
>
> Patch 5: This patch introduces the host "Virtio over PCIe" interface for
> Intel MIC. It allows creating user space backends on the host and instantiating
> virtio devices for them on the Intel MIC card. It uses the existing VRINGH
> infrastructure in the kernel to access virtio rings from the host. A character
> device per MIC is exposed with IOCTL, mmap and poll callbacks. This allows the
> user space backend to:
> (a) add/remove a virtio device via a device page.
> (b) map (R/O) virtio rings and device page to user space.
> (c) poll for availability of data.
> (d) copy a descriptor or entire descriptor chain to/from the card.
> (e) modify virtio configuration.
> (f) handle virtio device reset.
> The buffers are copied over using CPU copies for this initial patch
> and host initiated MIC DMA support is planned for future patches.
> The avail and desc virtio rings are in host memory and the used ring
> is in card memory to maximize writes across PCIe for performance.
>
> Patch 6: This patch introduces the card "Virtio over PCIe" interface for
> Intel MIC. It allows virtio drivers on the card to communicate with their
> user space backends on the host via a device page. Ring 3 apps on the host
> can add, remove and configure virtio devices. A thin MIC specific
> virtio_config_ops is implemented which is borrowed heavily from previous
> similar implementations in lguest and s390 @
> drivers/lguest/lguest_device.c
> drivers/s390/kvm/kvm_virtio.c
>
> Patch 7: This patch introduces a sample user space daemon which
> implements the virtio device backends on the host. The daemon
> creates/removes/configures virtio device backends by communicating with
> the Intel MIC Host Driver. The virtio devices currently supported are
> virtio net, virtio console and virtio block. Virtio net supports TSO/GSO.
> The daemon also monitors card shutdown status and takes appropriate actions
> like killing the virtio backends and resetting the card upon card shutdown
> and crashes.
>
> The patches have been compiled/validated against v3.11-rc5.
>
> Ashutosh Dixit (2):
> Intel MIC Host Driver Changes for Virtio Devices.
> Intel MIC Card Driver Changes for Virtio Devices.
>
> Caz Yokoyama (1):
> Sample Implementation of Intel MIC User Space Daemon.
>
> Dasaratharaman Chandramouli (1):
> Intel MIC Host Driver Interrupt/SMPT support.
>
> Sudeep Dutt (3):
> Intel MIC Host Driver for X100 family.
> Intel MIC Host Driver, card OS state management.
> Intel MIC Card Driver for X100 family.
>
> Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-mic.txt | 147 +++
> Documentation/mic/mic_overview.txt | 49 +
> Documentation/mic/mpssd/.gitignore | 1 +
> Documentation/mic/mpssd/Makefile | 19 +
> Documentation/mic/mpssd/micctrl | 173 +++
> Documentation/mic/mpssd/mpss | 202 +++
> Documentation/mic/mpssd/mpssd.c | 1701 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
> Documentation/mic/mpssd/mpssd.h | 100 ++
> Documentation/mic/mpssd/sysfs.c | 102 ++
> drivers/misc/Kconfig | 1 +
> drivers/misc/Makefile | 1 +
> drivers/misc/mic/Kconfig | 39 +
> drivers/misc/mic/Makefile | 6 +
> drivers/misc/mic/card/Makefile | 11 +
> drivers/misc/mic/card/mic_debugfs.c | 130 ++
> drivers/misc/mic/card/mic_device.c | 306 +++++
> drivers/misc/mic/card/mic_device.h | 133 ++
> drivers/misc/mic/card/mic_virtio.c | 631 +++++++++
> drivers/misc/mic/card/mic_virtio.h | 77 ++
> drivers/misc/mic/card/mic_x100.c | 256 ++++
> drivers/misc/mic/card/mic_x100.h | 48 +
> drivers/misc/mic/common/mic_device.h | 51 +
> drivers/misc/mic/host/Makefile | 13 +
> drivers/misc/mic/host/mic_boot.c | 185 +++
> drivers/misc/mic/host/mic_debugfs.c | 496 +++++++
> drivers/misc/mic/host/mic_device.h | 300 +++++
> drivers/misc/mic/host/mic_fops.c | 221 ++++
> drivers/misc/mic/host/mic_fops.h | 32 +
> drivers/misc/mic/host/mic_main.c | 1098 ++++++++++++++++
> drivers/misc/mic/host/mic_smpt.c | 440 +++++++
> drivers/misc/mic/host/mic_smpt.h | 98 ++
> drivers/misc/mic/host/mic_sysfs.c | 468 +++++++
> drivers/misc/mic/host/mic_virtio.c | 704 ++++++++++
> drivers/misc/mic/host/mic_virtio.h | 138 ++
> drivers/misc/mic/host/mic_x100.c | 573 +++++++++
> drivers/misc/mic/host/mic_x100.h | 99 ++
> include/uapi/linux/Kbuild | 2 +
> include/uapi/linux/mic_common.h | 238 ++++
> include/uapi/linux/mic_ioctl.h | 74 ++
> 39 files changed, 9363 insertions(+)
> create mode 100644 Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-mic.txt
> create mode 100644 Documentation/mic/mic_overview.txt
> create mode 100644 Documentation/mic/mpssd/.gitignore
> create mode 100644 Documentation/mic/mpssd/Makefile
> create mode 100755 Documentation/mic/mpssd/micctrl
> create mode 100755 Documentation/mic/mpssd/mpss
> create mode 100644 Documentation/mic/mpssd/mpssd.c
> create mode 100644 Documentation/mic/mpssd/mpssd.h
> create mode 100644 Documentation/mic/mpssd/sysfs.c
> create mode 100644 drivers/misc/mic/Kconfig
> create mode 100644 drivers/misc/mic/Makefile
> create mode 100644 drivers/misc/mic/card/Makefile
> create mode 100644 drivers/misc/mic/card/mic_debugfs.c
> create mode 100644 drivers/misc/mic/card/mic_device.c
> create mode 100644 drivers/misc/mic/card/mic_device.h
> create mode 100644 drivers/misc/mic/card/mic_virtio.c
> create mode 100644 drivers/misc/mic/card/mic_virtio.h
> create mode 100644 drivers/misc/mic/card/mic_x100.c
> create mode 100644 drivers/misc/mic/card/mic_x100.h
> create mode 100644 drivers/misc/mic/common/mic_device.h
> create mode 100644 drivers/misc/mic/host/Makefile
> create mode 100644 drivers/misc/mic/host/mic_boot.c
> create mode 100644 drivers/misc/mic/host/mic_debugfs.c
> create mode 100644 drivers/misc/mic/host/mic_device.h
> create mode 100644 drivers/misc/mic/host/mic_fops.c
> create mode 100644 drivers/misc/mic/host/mic_fops.h
> create mode 100644 drivers/misc/mic/host/mic_main.c
> create mode 100644 drivers/misc/mic/host/mic_smpt.c
> create mode 100644 drivers/misc/mic/host/mic_smpt.h
> create mode 100644 drivers/misc/mic/host/mic_sysfs.c
> create mode 100644 drivers/misc/mic/host/mic_virtio.c
> create mode 100644 drivers/misc/mic/host/mic_virtio.h
> create mode 100644 drivers/misc/mic/host/mic_x100.c
> create mode 100644 drivers/misc/mic/host/mic_x100.h
> create mode 100644 include/uapi/linux/mic_common.h
> create mode 100644 include/uapi/linux/mic_ioctl.h
>
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