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diff --git a/Documentation/networking/device_drivers/amazon/ena.txt b/Documentation/networking/device_drivers/amazon/ena.rst index 1bb55c7b604c..11af6388ea87 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/device_drivers/amazon/ena.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/device_drivers/amazon/ena.rst @@ -1,8 +1,12 @@ -Linux kernel driver for Elastic Network Adapter (ENA) family: -============================================================= +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 + +============================================================ +Linux kernel driver for Elastic Network Adapter (ENA) family +============================================================ + +Overview +======== -Overview: -========= ENA is a networking interface designed to make good use of modern CPU features and system architectures. @@ -35,32 +39,40 @@ debug logs. Some of the ENA devices support a working mode called Low-latency Queue (LLQ), which saves several more microseconds. -Supported PCI vendor ID/device IDs: +Supported PCI vendor ID/device IDs +================================== + +========= ======================= +1d0f:0ec2 ENA PF +1d0f:1ec2 ENA PF with LLQ support +1d0f:ec20 ENA VF +1d0f:ec21 ENA VF with LLQ support +========= ======================= + +ENA Source Code Directory Structure =================================== -1d0f:0ec2 - ENA PF -1d0f:1ec2 - ENA PF with LLQ support -1d0f:ec20 - ENA VF -1d0f:ec21 - ENA VF with LLQ support - -ENA Source Code Directory Structure: -==================================== -ena_com.[ch] - Management communication layer. This layer is - responsible for the handling all the management - (admin) communication between the device and the - driver. -ena_eth_com.[ch] - Tx/Rx data path. -ena_admin_defs.h - Definition of ENA management interface. -ena_eth_io_defs.h - Definition of ENA data path interface. -ena_common_defs.h - Common definitions for ena_com layer. -ena_regs_defs.h - Definition of ENA PCI memory-mapped (MMIO) registers. -ena_netdev.[ch] - Main Linux kernel driver. -ena_syfsfs.[ch] - Sysfs files. -ena_ethtool.c - ethtool callbacks. -ena_pci_id_tbl.h - Supported device IDs. + +================= ====================================================== +ena_com.[ch] Management communication layer. This layer is + responsible for the handling all the management + (admin) communication between the device and the + driver. +ena_eth_com.[ch] Tx/Rx data path. +ena_admin_defs.h Definition of ENA management interface. +ena_eth_io_defs.h Definition of ENA data path interface. +ena_common_defs.h Common definitions for ena_com layer. +ena_regs_defs.h Definition of ENA PCI memory-mapped (MMIO) registers. +ena_netdev.[ch] Main Linux kernel driver. +ena_syfsfs.[ch] Sysfs files. +ena_ethtool.c ethtool callbacks. +ena_pci_id_tbl.h Supported device IDs. +================= ====================================================== Management Interface: ===================== + ENA management interface is exposed by means of: + - PCIe Configuration Space - Device Registers - Admin Queue (AQ) and Admin Completion Queue (ACQ) @@ -78,6 +90,7 @@ vendor-specific extensions. Most of the management operations are framed in a generic Get/Set feature command. The following admin queue commands are supported: + - Create I/O submission queue - Create I/O completion queue - Destroy I/O submission queue @@ -96,12 +109,16 @@ be reported using ACQ. AENQ events are subdivided into groups. Each group may have multiple syndromes, as shown below The events are: + + ==================== =============== Group Syndrome - Link state change - X - - Fatal error - X - + ==================== =============== + Link state change **X** + Fatal error **X** Notification Suspend traffic Notification Resume traffic - Keep-Alive - X - + Keep-Alive **X** + ==================== =============== ACQ and AENQ share the same MSI-X vector. @@ -113,8 +130,8 @@ the device every second. The driver re-arms the WD upon reception of a Keep-Alive event. A missed Keep-Alive event causes the WD handler to fire. -Data Path Interface: -==================== +Data Path Interface +=================== I/O operations are based on Tx and Rx Submission Queues (Tx SQ and Rx SQ correspondingly). Each SQ has a completion queue (CQ) associated with it. @@ -123,11 +140,15 @@ The SQs and CQs are implemented as descriptor rings in contiguous physical memory. The ENA driver supports two Queue Operation modes for Tx SQs: + - Regular mode + * In this mode the Tx SQs reside in the host's memory. The ENA device fetches the ENA Tx descriptors and packet data from host memory. + - Low Latency Queue (LLQ) mode or "push-mode". + * In this mode the driver pushes the transmit descriptors and the first 128 bytes of the packet directly to the ENA device memory space. The rest of the packet payload is fetched by the @@ -142,6 +163,7 @@ Note: Not all ENA devices support LLQ, and this feature is negotiated The driver supports multi-queue for both Tx and Rx. This has various benefits: + - Reduced CPU/thread/process contention on a given Ethernet interface. - Cache miss rate on completion is reduced, particularly for data cache lines that hold the sk_buff structures. @@ -151,8 +173,8 @@ benefits: packet is running. - In hardware interrupt re-direction. -Interrupt Modes: -================ +Interrupt Modes +=============== The driver assigns a single MSI-X vector per queue pair (for both Tx and Rx directions). The driver assigns an additional dedicated MSI-X vector for management (for ACQ and AENQ). @@ -163,9 +185,12 @@ removed. I/O queue interrupt registration is performed when the Linux interface of the adapter is opened, and it is de-registered when the interface is closed. -The management interrupt is named: +The management interrupt is named:: + ena-mgmnt@pci:<PCI domain:bus:slot.function> -and for each queue pair, an interrupt is named: + +and for each queue pair, an interrupt is named:: + <interface name>-Tx-Rx-<queue index> The ENA device operates in auto-mask and auto-clear interrupt @@ -173,8 +198,8 @@ modes. That is, once MSI-X is delivered to the host, its Cause bit is automatically cleared and the interrupt is masked. The interrupt is unmasked by the driver after NAPI processing is complete. -Interrupt Moderation: -===================== +Interrupt Moderation +==================== ENA driver and device can operate in conventional or adaptive interrupt moderation mode. @@ -202,45 +227,46 @@ delay value to each level. The user can enable/disable adaptive moderation, modify the interrupt delay table and restore its default values through sysfs. -RX copybreak: -============= +RX copybreak +============ The rx_copybreak is initialized by default to ENA_DEFAULT_RX_COPYBREAK and can be configured by the ETHTOOL_STUNABLE command of the SIOCETHTOOL ioctl. -SKB: -==== +SKB +=== The driver-allocated SKB for frames received from Rx handling using NAPI context. The allocation method depends on the size of the packet. If the frame length is larger than rx_copybreak, napi_get_frags() is used, otherwise netdev_alloc_skb_ip_align() is used, the buffer content is copied (by CPU) to the SKB, and the buffer is recycled. -Statistics: -=========== +Statistics +========== The user can obtain ENA device and driver statistics using ethtool. The driver can collect regular or extended statistics (including per-queue stats) from the device. In addition the driver logs the stats to syslog upon device reset. -MTU: -==== +MTU +=== The driver supports an arbitrarily large MTU with a maximum that is negotiated with the device. The driver configures MTU using the SetFeature command (ENA_ADMIN_MTU property). The user can change MTU via ip(8) and similar legacy tools. -Stateless Offloads: -=================== +Stateless Offloads +================== The ENA driver supports: + - TSO over IPv4/IPv6 - TSO with ECN - IPv4 header checksum offload - TCP/UDP over IPv4/IPv6 checksum offloads -RSS: -==== +RSS +=== - The ENA device supports RSS that allows flexible Rx traffic steering. - Toeplitz and CRC32 hash functions are supported. @@ -255,11 +281,13 @@ RSS: - The user can provide a hash key, hash function, and configure the indirection table through ethtool(8). -DATA PATH: -========== -Tx: ---- +DATA PATH +========= +Tx +-- + end_start_xmit() is called by the stack. This function does the following: + - Maps data buffers (skb->data and frags). - Populates ena_buf for the push buffer (if the driver and device are in push mode.) @@ -271,8 +299,10 @@ end_start_xmit() is called by the stack. This function does the following: - Calls ena_com_prepare_tx(), an ENA communication layer that converts the ena_bufs to ENA descriptors (and adds meta ENA descriptors as needed.) + * This function also copies the ENA descriptors and the push buffer to the Device memory space (if in push mode.) + - Writes doorbell to the ENA device. - When the ENA device finishes sending the packet, a completion interrupt is raised. @@ -280,14 +310,16 @@ end_start_xmit() is called by the stack. This function does the following: - The ena_clean_tx_irq() function is called. This function handles the completion descriptors generated by the ENA, with a single completion descriptor per completed packet. + * req_id is retrieved from the completion descriptor. The tx_info of the packet is retrieved via the req_id. The data buffers are unmapped and req_id is returned to the empty req_id ring. * The function stops when the completion descriptors are completed or the budget is reached. -Rx: ---- +Rx +-- + - When a packet is received from the ENA device. - The interrupt handler schedules NAPI. - The ena_clean_rx_irq() function is called. This function calls @@ -296,13 +328,17 @@ Rx: no new packet is found. - Then it calls the ena_clean_rx_irq() function. - ena_eth_rx_skb() checks packet length: + * If the packet is small (len < rx_copybreak), the driver allocates a SKB for the new packet, and copies the packet payload into the SKB data buffer. + - In this way the original data buffer is not passed to the stack and is reused for future Rx packets. + * Otherwise the function unmaps the Rx buffer, then allocates the new SKB structure and hooks the Rx buffer to the SKB frags. + - The new SKB is updated with the necessary information (protocol, checksum hw verify result, etc.), and then passed to the network stack, using the NAPI interface function napi_gro_receive(). |