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Message-Id: <34b853d6f4cac6d65f86c4f3b6e09a7648443067.1397504824.git.siva.krishna.kumar.reddy.yerramreddy@intel.com> Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2014 13:14:58 -0700 From: Siva Yerramreddy <siva.krishna.kumar.reddy.yerramreddy@...el.com> To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>, Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com> Cc: Siva Yerramreddy <siva.krishna.kumar.reddy.yerramreddy@...el.com>, Sudeep Dutt <sudeep.dutt@...el.com>, Nikhil Rao <nikhil.rao@...el.com>, Ashutosh Dixit <ashutosh.dixit@...el.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, dmaengine@...r.kernel.org Subject: [PATCH 1/8] misc: mic: Add mic bus and dma driver documentation Added an overview of mic bus and dma driver. Reviewed-by: Ashutosh Dixit <ashutosh.dixit@...el.com> Reviewed-by: Nikhil Rao <nikhil.rao@...el.com> Reviewed-by: Sudeep Dutt <sudeep.dutt@...el.com> Signed-off-by: Siva Yerramreddy <siva.krishna.kumar.reddy.yerramreddy@...el.com> --- Documentation/mic/mic_overview.txt | 67 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------------- 1 file changed, 41 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/mic/mic_overview.txt b/Documentation/mic/mic_overview.txt index b419292..77c5418 100644 --- a/Documentation/mic/mic_overview.txt +++ b/Documentation/mic/mic_overview.txt @@ -17,35 +17,50 @@ 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. +MIC PCIe card has a dma controller with 8 channels. These channels are +shared between the host s/w and the card s/w. 0 to 3 are used by host +and 4 to 7 by card. As the dma device doesn't show up as PCIe device, +a virtual bus called mic bus is created and virtual dma devices are +created on it by the host/card drivers. On host the channels are private +and used only by the host driver to transfer data for the virtio devices. + 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 | - +-------------------------------------------------------------+ + | + +----------+ | +----------+ + | 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 | + | | +--------------------------+ ++-----------+ | | | +-----------+ +| MIC DMA | | | | | MIC DMA | +| Driver | | | | | Driver | ++-----------+ | | | +-----------+ + | | | | | ++---------------+ | | | +----------------+ +|MIC virtual Bus| | | | |MIC virtual Bus | ++---------------+ | | | +----------------+ + | | | | | + | +--------------+ | +---------------+ | + | |Intel MIC | | |Intel MIC | | + +---|Card Driver | | |Host Driver | | + +--------------+ | +---------------+-----+ + | | | + +-------------------------------------------------------------+ + | | + | PCIe Bus | + +-------------------------------------------------------------+ -- 1.8.2.2 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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