The IOAT hardware supports writing a 64-bit pattern to some destination
buffer. The same limitations on buffer length apply as for copy
operations. Throughput is a bit higher (probably because fill does not
have to spend bandwidth reading from a source in memory).
Support for testing Block Fill has been added to ioatcontrol(8) and the
ioat_test device. ioatcontrol(8) accepts the '-f' flag, which tests
Block Fill. (If the flag is omitted, the tool tests copy by default.)
The '-V' flag, in conjunction with '-f', verifies that buffers are
filled in the expected pattern.
Tested on: Broadwell DE (Xeon D-1500)
Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon Storage Division
Add generic hw descriptor struct and generic control flags struct, in
preparation for other kinds of IOAT operation.
Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon Storage Division
Add a new flag for DMA operations, DMA_NO_WAIT. It behaves much like
other NOWAIT flags -- if queueing an operation would sleep, abort and
return NULL instead.
When growing the internal descriptor ring, the memory allocation is
performed outside of all locks. A lock-protected flag is used to avoid
duplicated work. Threads that cannot sleep and attempt to queue
operations when the descriptor ring is full allocate a larger ring with
M_NOWAIT, or bail if that fails.
ioat_reserve_space() could become an external API if is important to
callers that they have room for a sequence of operations, or that those
operations succeed each other directly in the hardware ring.
This patch splits the internal head index (->head) from the hardware's
head-of-chain (DMACOUNT) register (->hw_head). In the future, for
simplicity's sake, we could drop the 'ring' array entirely and just use
a linked list (with head and tail pointers rather than indices).
Suggested by: Witness
Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon Storage Division
We need to reset the chancmp and chainaddr MMIO registers to bring the
device back to a working state.
Name the chanerr bits while we're here.
Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon Storage Division
We only need to borrow a mutex for the drain sleep and the 0->1
transition, so just reuse an existing one for now.
The wchan is arbitrary. Using refcount itself would have required
__DEVOLATILE(), so use the lock's address instead.
Different uses are tagged by kind, although we only do anything with
that information in INVARIANTS builds.
Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon Storage Division
Callers should have acquired this lock when they invoked ioat_acquire()
before issuing operations. Assert it is held.
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This is still the worst possible way to allocate memory if it will ever
be under pressure, but at least it won't deadlock.
Suggested by: WITNESS
Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon Storage Division
Pull out the timer callout delay into IOAT_INTR_TIMO and shorten it
considerably (5s -> 100ms). Single operations do not take 5-10 seconds
and when interrupts aren't working, waiting 100ms sucks a lot less than
5s.
Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon Storage Division
Replace custom Linux-like logging with a thin shim around
device_printf(), when the softc is available.
In ioat_test, shim around printf(9) instead.
Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon Storage Division
Don't run the selftest until after we've enabled bus mastering, or the
DMA engine can't copy anything for our test.
Create the ioat_test device on attach, if so tuned. Destroy the
ioat_test device on teardown.
Replace deprecated 'CALLOUT_MPSAFE' with correct '1' in callout_init().
Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon Storage Division
The test logic now preallocates memory before running the test.
The buffer size is now configurable. Post-copy verification is
configurable. The number of copies to chain into one transaction (one
interrupt) is configurable.
A 'duration' mode is added, which repeats the test until the duration
has elapsed, reporting the B/s and transactions completed.
ioatcontrol.8 has been updated to document the new arguments.
Initial limits (on this particular Broadwell-DE) (and when the
interrupts are working) seem to be: 256 interrupts/sec or ~6 GB/s,
whichever limit is more restrictive.
Unfortunately, it seems the interrupt-reset handling on Broadwell isn't
working as intended. That will be fixed in a later commit.
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Resetting some generations of the I/OAT hardware (just BDXDE for now)
resets the corresponding MSI-X registers. So, teardown and
re-initialize interrupts after resetting the hardware.
Reviewed by: jimharris
Approved by: markj (mentor)
Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon Storage Division
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D3549
I/OAT is also referred to as Crystal Beach DMA and is a Platform Storage
Extension (PSE) on some Intel server platforms.
This driver currently supports DMA descriptors only and is part of a
larger effort to upstream an interconnect between multiple systems using
the Non-Transparent Bridge (NTB) PSE.
For now, this driver is only built on AMD64 platforms. It may be ported
to work on i386 later, if that is desired. The hardware is exclusive to
x86.
Further documentation on ioat(4), including API documentation and usage,
can be found in the new manual page.
Bring in a test tool, ioatcontrol(8), in tools/tools/ioat. The test
tool is not hooked up to the build and is not intended for end users.
Submitted by: jimharris, Carl Delsey <carl.r.delsey@intel.com>
Reviewed by: jimharris (reviewed my changes)
Approved by: markj (mentor)
Relnotes: yes
Sponsored by: Intel
Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon Storage Division
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D3456
