numam-spdk/doc/vmd.md
Tomasz Zawadzki 2903c65533 doc: remove mentions of legacy config
Support for legacy configuration has been removed from SPDK
at this point.

This patch focuses on adjustement in documentation and examples.

Signed-off-by: Tomasz Zawadzki <tomasz.zawadzki@intel.com>
Change-Id: Icfe8baf7a7497ffa86fde9038001429c5a7bc4f6
Reviewed-on: https://review.spdk.io/gerrit/c/spdk/spdk/+/4801
Tested-by: SPDK CI Jenkins <sys_sgci@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Jim Harris <james.r.harris@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Aleksey Marchuk <alexeymar@mellanox.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul Luse <paul.e.luse@intel.com>
2020-10-22 17:08:41 +00:00

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VMD driver

In this document

  • @ref vmd_intro
  • @ref vmd_interface
  • @ref vmd_key_functions
  • @ref vmd_config
  • @ref vmd_app_frame
  • @ref vmd_app
  • @ref vmd_led

Introduction

Intel Volume Management Device is a hardware logic inside processor's Root Complex responsible for management of PCIe NVMe SSDs. It provides robust Hot Plug support and Status LED management.

The driver is responsible for enumeration and hooking NVMe devices behind VMD into SPDK PCIe subsystem. It also provides API for LED management and hot plug.

Public Interface

  • spdk/vmd.h

Key Functions

Function Description
spdk_vmd_init() @copybrief spdk_vmd_init()
spdk_vmd_pci_device_list() @copybrief spdk_vmd_pci_device_list()
spdk_vmd_set_led_state() @copybrief spdk_vmd_set_led_state()
spdk_vmd_get_led_state() @copybrief spdk_vmd_get_led_state()
spdk_vmd_hotplug_monitor() @copybrief spdk_vmd_hotplug_monitor()

Configuration

To enable VMD driver enumeration, the following steps are required:

Check for available VMD devices (VMD needs to be properly set up in BIOS first).

Example:

$ lspci | grep 201d

$ 5d:05.5 RAID bus controller: Intel Corporation Device 201d (rev 04)
$ d7:05.5 RAID bus controller: Intel Corporation Device 201d (rev 04)

Run setup.sh script with VMD devices set in PCI_WHITELIST.

Example:

$ PCI_WHITELIST="0000:5d:05.5 0000:d7:05.5" scripts/setup.sh

Check for available devices behind the VMD with spdk_lspci.

Example:

$ ./build/bin/spdk_lspci

 5d0505:01:00.0 (8086 a54) (NVMe disk behind VMD)
 5d0505:03:00.0 (8086 a54) (NVMe disk behind VMD)
 d70505:01:00.0 (8086 a54) (NVMe disk behind VMD)
 d70505:03:00.0 (8086 a54) (NVMe disk behind VMD)
 0000:5d:05.5 (8086 201d) (VMD)
 0000:d7:05.5 (8086 201d) (VMD)

VMD NVMe BDF could be used as regular NVMe BDF.

Example:

$ ./scripts/rpc.py bdev_nvme_attach_controller -b NVMe1 -t PCIe -a 5d0505:01:00.0

Application framework

When application framework is used, VMD section needs to be added to the configuration file:

JSON config:

{
    "subsystem": "vmd",
    "config": [
      {
        "method": "enable_vmd",
        "params": {}
      }
    ]
}

or use RPC call before framework starts e.g.

$ ./build/bin/spdk_tgt --wait_for_rpc
$ ./scripts/rpc.py enable_vmd
$ ./scripts/rpc.py framework_start_init

Applications w/o application framework

To enable VMD enumeration in SPDK application that are not using application framework e.g nvme/perf, nvme/identify -V flag is required - please refer to app help if it supports VMD.

Applications need to call spdk_vmd_init() to enumerate NVMe devices behind the VMD prior to calling spdk_nvme_(probe|connect). To support hot plugs spdk_vmd_hotplug_monitor() needs to be called periodically.

LED management

VMD LED utility in the examples/vmd/led could be used to set LED states.

In order to verify that a platform is correctly configured to support LED management, ledctl(8) can be utilized. For instructions on how to use it, consult the manual page of this utility.