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Add NTB driver for PLX/Avago/Broadcom PCIe switches. This driver supports both NTB-to-NTB and NTB-to-Root Port modes (though the second with predictable complications on hot-plug and reboot events). I tested it with PEX 8717 and PEX 8733 chips, but expect it should work with many other compatible ones too. It supports up to two NT bridges per chip, each of which can have up to 2 64-bit or 4 32-bit memory windows, 6 or 12 scratchpad registers and 16 doorbells. There are also 4 DMA engines in those chips, but they are not yet supported. While there, rename Intel NTB driver from generic ntb_hw(4) to more specific ntb_hw_intel(4), so now it is on par with this new ntb_hw_plx(4) driver and alike to Linux naming. MFC after: 2 weeks Sponsored by: iXsystems, Inc.
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Add NTB driver for PLX/Avago/Broadcom PCIe switches. This driver supports both NTB-to-NTB and NTB-to-Root Port modes (though the second with predictable complications on hot-plug and reboot events). I tested it with PEX 8717 and PEX 8733 chips, but expect it should work with many other compatible ones too. It supports up to two NT bridges per chip, each of which can have up to 2 64-bit or 4 32-bit memory windows, 6 or 12 scratchpad registers and 16 doorbells. There are also 4 DMA engines in those chips, but they are not yet supported. While there, rename Intel NTB driver from generic ntb_hw(4) to more specific ntb_hw_intel(4), so now it is on par with this new ntb_hw_plx(4) driver and alike to Linux naming. MFC after: 2 weeks Sponsored by: iXsystems, Inc.
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.Dd August 30, 2017
.Dt NTB 4
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.Os
.Sh NAME
Add NTB driver for PLX/Avago/Broadcom PCIe switches. This driver supports both NTB-to-NTB and NTB-to-Root Port modes (though the second with predictable complications on hot-plug and reboot events). I tested it with PEX 8717 and PEX 8733 chips, but expect it should work with many other compatible ones too. It supports up to two NT bridges per chip, each of which can have up to 2 64-bit or 4 32-bit memory windows, 6 or 12 scratchpad registers and 16 doorbells. There are also 4 DMA engines in those chips, but they are not yet supported. While there, rename Intel NTB driver from generic ntb_hw(4) to more specific ntb_hw_intel(4), so now it is on par with this new ntb_hw_plx(4) driver and alike to Linux naming. MFC after: 2 weeks Sponsored by: iXsystems, Inc.
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.Nm ntb
.Nd Non-Transparent Bridge subsystem
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
Add NTB driver for PLX/Avago/Broadcom PCIe switches. This driver supports both NTB-to-NTB and NTB-to-Root Port modes (though the second with predictable complications on hot-plug and reboot events). I tested it with PEX 8717 and PEX 8733 chips, but expect it should work with many other compatible ones too. It supports up to two NT bridges per chip, each of which can have up to 2 64-bit or 4 32-bit memory windows, 6 or 12 scratchpad registers and 16 doorbells. There are also 4 DMA engines in those chips, but they are not yet supported. While there, rename Intel NTB driver from generic ntb_hw(4) to more specific ntb_hw_intel(4), so now it is on par with this new ntb_hw_plx(4) driver and alike to Linux naming. MFC after: 2 weeks Sponsored by: iXsystems, Inc.
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To compile it into your kernel,
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place the following lines in your kernel configuration file:
.Bd -ragged -offset indent
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.Cd "device ntb"
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.Ed
.Pp
Add NTB driver for PLX/Avago/Broadcom PCIe switches. This driver supports both NTB-to-NTB and NTB-to-Root Port modes (though the second with predictable complications on hot-plug and reboot events). I tested it with PEX 8717 and PEX 8733 chips, but expect it should work with many other compatible ones too. It supports up to two NT bridges per chip, each of which can have up to 2 64-bit or 4 32-bit memory windows, 6 or 12 scratchpad registers and 16 doorbells. There are also 4 DMA engines in those chips, but they are not yet supported. While there, rename Intel NTB driver from generic ntb_hw(4) to more specific ntb_hw_intel(4), so now it is on par with this new ntb_hw_plx(4) driver and alike to Linux naming. MFC after: 2 weeks Sponsored by: iXsystems, Inc.
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Or, to load it as a module at boot, place the following line in
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.Xr loader.conf 5 :
.Bd -literal -offset indent
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ntb_load="YES"
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The following tunables are settable from the
.Xr loader 8 :
.Bl -ohang
.It Va hw.ntb.debug_level
Driver debug level.
The default value is 0, higher means more verbose.
Once more refactor KPI between NTB hardware and consumers. New design allows hardware resources to be split between several consumers. For example, one BAR can be dedicated for remote memory access, while other resources can be used for packet transport for virtual Ethernet interface. And even without resource split, this code allows to specify which consumer driver should attach the hardware. From some points this makes the code even closer to Linux one, even though Linux does not provide the described flexibility.
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.It Va hint.ntb_hw. Ns Ar X Ns Va .config
Configures NTB resources split between several consumer devices.
Configuration of multiple consumer devices separated by commas.
Add NTB driver for PLX/Avago/Broadcom PCIe switches. This driver supports both NTB-to-NTB and NTB-to-Root Port modes (though the second with predictable complications on hot-plug and reboot events). I tested it with PEX 8717 and PEX 8733 chips, but expect it should work with many other compatible ones too. It supports up to two NT bridges per chip, each of which can have up to 2 64-bit or 4 32-bit memory windows, 6 or 12 scratchpad registers and 16 doorbells. There are also 4 DMA engines in those chips, but they are not yet supported. While there, rename Intel NTB driver from generic ntb_hw(4) to more specific ntb_hw_intel(4), so now it is on par with this new ntb_hw_plx(4) driver and alike to Linux naming. MFC after: 2 weeks Sponsored by: iXsystems, Inc.
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Each device can be configured as: "[<name>][:<mw>[:<spad>[:<db>]]]", where:
Once more refactor KPI between NTB hardware and consumers. New design allows hardware resources to be split between several consumers. For example, one BAR can be dedicated for remote memory access, while other resources can be used for packet transport for virtual Ethernet interface. And even without resource split, this code allows to specify which consumer driver should attach the hardware. From some points this makes the code even closer to Linux one, even though Linux does not provide the described flexibility.
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.Va name
is a name of the driver which should attach the device (empty means any),
.Va mw
is a number of memory windows to allocate (empty means all available),
.Va spad
is a number of scratchpad registers to allocate (empty means all available),
.Va db
is a number of doorbells to allocate (empty means all available).
The default configuration is empty string, which means single device
with all available resources allowing any driver attachment.
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.El
.Sh DESCRIPTION
Add NTB driver for PLX/Avago/Broadcom PCIe switches. This driver supports both NTB-to-NTB and NTB-to-Root Port modes (though the second with predictable complications on hot-plug and reboot events). I tested it with PEX 8717 and PEX 8733 chips, but expect it should work with many other compatible ones too. It supports up to two NT bridges per chip, each of which can have up to 2 64-bit or 4 32-bit memory windows, 6 or 12 scratchpad registers and 16 doorbells. There are also 4 DMA engines in those chips, but they are not yet supported. While there, rename Intel NTB driver from generic ntb_hw(4) to more specific ntb_hw_intel(4), so now it is on par with this new ntb_hw_plx(4) driver and alike to Linux naming. MFC after: 2 weeks Sponsored by: iXsystems, Inc.
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Non-Transparent Bridges allow to connect two computer systems with PCIe
link(s), providing each of them limited access to others memory space,
scratchpad registers and interrupts.
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The
.Nm
Add NTB driver for PLX/Avago/Broadcom PCIe switches. This driver supports both NTB-to-NTB and NTB-to-Root Port modes (though the second with predictable complications on hot-plug and reboot events). I tested it with PEX 8717 and PEX 8733 chips, but expect it should work with many other compatible ones too. It supports up to two NT bridges per chip, each of which can have up to 2 64-bit or 4 32-bit memory windows, 6 or 12 scratchpad registers and 16 doorbells. There are also 4 DMA engines in those chips, but they are not yet supported. While there, rename Intel NTB driver from generic ntb_hw(4) to more specific ntb_hw_intel(4), so now it is on par with this new ntb_hw_plx(4) driver and alike to Linux naming. MFC after: 2 weeks Sponsored by: iXsystems, Inc.
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subsystem uses those resources provided in generic way by hardware drivers
and splits them between multiple consumer drivers, according to specified
configuration.
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.Sh SEE ALSO
Fix various mdoc issues reported by mandoc -Tlint.
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.Xr if_ntb 4 ,
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.Xr ntb_transport 4 ,
.Xr ntb_hw_intel 4 ,
.Xr ntb_hw_plx 4
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.Sh AUTHORS
.An -nosplit
The
.Nm
Add NTB driver for PLX/Avago/Broadcom PCIe switches. This driver supports both NTB-to-NTB and NTB-to-Root Port modes (though the second with predictable complications on hot-plug and reboot events). I tested it with PEX 8717 and PEX 8733 chips, but expect it should work with many other compatible ones too. It supports up to two NT bridges per chip, each of which can have up to 2 64-bit or 4 32-bit memory windows, 6 or 12 scratchpad registers and 16 doorbells. There are also 4 DMA engines in those chips, but they are not yet supported. While there, rename Intel NTB driver from generic ntb_hw(4) to more specific ntb_hw_intel(4), so now it is on par with this new ntb_hw_plx(4) driver and alike to Linux naming. MFC after: 2 weeks Sponsored by: iXsystems, Inc.
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subsystem was developed by Intel and originally written by
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.An Carl Delsey Aq Mt carl@FreeBSD.org .
Later improvements were done by
.An Conrad E. Meyer Aq Mt cem@FreeBSD.org
and
.An Alexander Motin Aq Mt mav@FreeBSD.org .
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