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misc: mic: Add mic bus and dma driver documentation
Added an overview of mic bus and dma driver.
Reviewed-by: Ashutosh Dixit <ashutosh.dixit@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Nikhil Rao <nikhil.rao@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Sudeep Dutt <sudeep.dutt@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Siva Yerramreddy <yshivakrishna@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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the standard virtio framework for network, disk and console devices,
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though in our case the virtio framework is used across a PCIe bus.
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MIC PCIe card has a dma controller with 8 channels. These channels are
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shared between the host s/w and the card s/w. 0 to 3 are used by host
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and 4 to 7 by card. As the dma device doesn't show up as PCIe device,
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a virtual bus called mic bus is created and virtual dma devices are
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created on it by the host/card drivers. On host the channels are private
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and used only by the host driver to transfer data for the virtio devices.
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Here is a block diagram of the various components described above. The
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virtio backends are situated on the host rather than the card given better
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single threaded performance for the host compared to MIC, the ability of
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the host to initiate DMA's to/from the card using the MIC DMA engine and
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the fact that the virtio block storage backend can only be on the host.
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| Card OS | | | Host OS |
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+----------+ | +----------+
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+-------+ +--------+ +------+ | +---------+ +--------+ +--------+
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| Virtio| |Virtio | |Virtio| | |Virtio | |Virtio | |Virtio |
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| Net | |Console | |Block | | |Net | |Console | |Block |
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| Driver| |Driver | |Driver| | |backend | |backend | |backend |
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+-------+ +--------+ +------+ | +---------+ +--------+ +--------+
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| | | |------|------------|---------|-------
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+-------------------+ |Kernel +--------------------------+
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| | | Virtio over PCIe IOCTLs |
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+--------------+ | |
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|Intel MIC | | +---------------+
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|Card Driver | | |Intel MIC |
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+--------------+ | |Host Driver |
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| PCIe Bus |
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+-------------------------------------------------------------+
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+----------+ | +----------+
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| Card OS | | | Host OS |
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+----------+ | +----------+
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+-------+ +--------+ +------+ | +---------+ +--------+ +--------+
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| Virtio| |Virtio | |Virtio| | |Virtio | |Virtio | |Virtio |
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| Net | |Console | |Block | | |Net | |Console | |Block |
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| Driver| |Driver | |Driver| | |backend | |backend | |backend |
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+-------+ +--------+ +------+ | +---------+ +--------+ +--------+
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+-------------------+ |Kernel +--------------------------+
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| | | Virtio over PCIe IOCTLs |
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| | +--------------------------+
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+-----------+ | | | +-----------+
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| MIC DMA | | | | | MIC DMA |
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| Driver | | | | | Driver |
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+-----------+ | | | +-----------+
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+---------------+ | | | +----------------+
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|MIC virtual Bus| | | | |MIC virtual Bus |
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+---------------+ | | | +----------------+
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| +--------------+ | +---------------+ |
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| |Intel MIC | | |Intel MIC | |
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+---|Card Driver | | |Host Driver | |
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+--------------+ | +---------------+-----+
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+-------------------------------------------------------------+
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| PCIe Bus |
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