Many variable names in the NTB driver refer to the primary or secondary
side. However, these variables will be used to access the reverse case
when in NTB-RP mode. Make these names more generic in anticipation of
NTB-RP support.
Authored by: Jon Mason
Obtained from: Linux
Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon Storage Division
The BWD NTB device will drop the link if an error is encountered on the
point-to-point PCI bridge. The link will stay down until all errors are
cleared and the link is re-established. On link down, check to see if
the error is detected, if so do the necessary housekeeping to try and
recover from the error and reestablish the link.
There is a potential race between the 2 NTB devices recovering at the
same time. If the times are synchronized, the link will not recover and
the driver will be stuck in this loop forever. Add a random interval to
the recovery time to prevent this race.
Authored by: Jon Mason
Obtained from: Linux
Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon Storage Division
There is a Xeon hardware errata related to writes to SDOORBELL or B2BDOORBELL
in conjunction with inbound access to NTB MMIO Space, which may hang the
system. To workaround this issue, use one of the memory windows to access the
interrupt and scratch pad registers on the remote system. This bypasses the
issue, but removes one of the memory windows from use by the transport. This
reduction of MWs necessitates adding some logic to determine the number of
available MWs.
Since some NTB usage methodologies may have unidirectional traffic, the ability
to disable the workaround via modparm has been added.
See BF113 in
http://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents/specification-updates/xeon-c5500-c3500-spec-update.pdf
See BT119 in
http://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents/specification-updates/xeon-e5-family-spec-update.pdf
Authored by: Jon Mason
Obtained from: Linux
Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon Storage Division
Due to ambiguous documentation, the USD/DSD identification is backward
when compared to the setting in BIOS. Correct the bits to match the
BIOS setting.
Authored by: Jon Mason
Obtained from: Linux
Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon Storage Division
The NTB Xeon hardware has 16 scratch pad registers and 16 back-to-back
scratch pad registers. Correct the #define to represent this and update
the variable names to reflect their usage.
Authored by: Jon Mason
Obtained from: Linux
Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon Storage Division
The system will appear to lockup for long periods of time due to the NTB
driver spending too much time in memcpy. Avoid this by reducing the
number of packets that can be serviced on a given interrupt.
Authored by: Jon Mason
Obtained from: Linux
Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon Storage Division
The ring logic of the NTB receive buffer/transmit memory window requires
there to be at least 2 payload sized allotments. For the minimal size
case, split the buffer into two and set the transport_mtu to the
appropriate size.
Authored by: Jon Mason
Obtained from: Linux
Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon Storage Division
If the NTB link toggles, the driver could stop receiving due to the
tx_index not being set to 0 on the transmitting size on a link-up event.
This is due to the driver expecting the incoming data to start at the
beginning of the receive buffer and not at a random place.
Authored by: Jon Mason
Obtained from: Linux
Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon Storage Division
Each link-up will allocate a new NTB receive buffer when the NTB
properties are negotiated with the remote system. These allocations did
not check for existing buffers and thus did not free them. Now, the
driver will check for an existing buffer and free it if not of the
correct size, before trying to alloc a new one.
Authored by: Jon Mason
Obtained from: Linux
Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon Storage Division
64bit BAR sizes are permissible with an NTB device. To support them
various modifications and clean-ups were required, most significantly
using 2 32bit scratch pad registers for each BAR.
Also, modify the driver to allow more than 2 Memory Windows.
Authored by: Jon Mason
Obtained from: Linux
Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon Storage Division
->remote_rx_info and ->rx_info are struct ntb_rx_info pointers. If we
add sizeof(struct ntb_rx_info) then it goes too far.
Authored by: Dan Carpenter
Obtained from: Linux
Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon Storage Division
years for head. However, it is continuously misused as the mpsafe argument
for callout_init(9). Deprecate the flag and clean up callout_init() calls
to make them more consistent.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D2613
Reviewed by: jhb
MFC after: 2 weeks
The NTB allows you to connect two systems with this device using a PCI-e
link. The driver is made of two modules:
- ntb_hw which is a basic hardware abstraction layer for the device.
- if_ntb which implements the ntb network device and the communication
protocol.
The driver is limited at the moment to CPU memcpy instead of using DMA, and
only Back-to-Back mode is supported. Also the network device isn't full
featured yet. These changes will be coming soon. The DMA change will also
bring in the ioat driver from the project branch it is on now.
This is an initial port of the GPL/BSD Linux driver contributed by Jon Mason
from Intel. Any bugs are my contributions.
Sponsored by: Intel
Reviewed by: jimharris, joel (man page only)
Approved by: jimharris (mentor)
