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-Copyright 2016 NXP
-
-Introduction
-------------
-
-A DPAA2 DPIO (Data Path I/O) is a hardware object that provides
-interfaces to enqueue and dequeue frames to/from network interfaces
-and other accelerators. A DPIO also provides hardware buffer
-pool management for network interfaces.
-
-This document provides an overview the Linux DPIO driver, its
-subcomponents, and its APIs.
-
-See Documentation/networking/dpaa2/overview.rst for a general overview of DPAA2
-and the general DPAA2 driver architecture in Linux.
-
-Driver Overview
----------------
-
-The DPIO driver is bound to DPIO objects discovered on the fsl-mc bus and
-provides services that:
- A) allow other drivers, such as the Ethernet driver, to enqueue and dequeue
- frames for their respective objects
- B) allow drivers to register callbacks for data availability notifications
- when data becomes available on a queue or channel
- C) allow drivers to manage hardware buffer pools
-
-The Linux DPIO driver consists of 3 primary components--
- DPIO object driver-- fsl-mc driver that manages the DPIO object
- DPIO service-- provides APIs to other Linux drivers for services
- QBman portal interface-- sends portal commands, gets responses
-
- fsl-mc other
- bus drivers
- | |
- +---+----+ +------+-----+
- |DPIO obj| |DPIO service|
- | driver |---| (DPIO) |
- +--------+ +------+-----+
- |
- +------+-----+
- | QBman |
- | portal i/f |
- +------------+
- |
- hardware
-
-The diagram below shows how the DPIO driver components fit with the other
-DPAA2 Linux driver components:
- +------------+
- | OS Network |
- | Stack |
- +------------+ +------------+
- | Allocator |. . . . . . . | Ethernet |
- |(DPMCP,DPBP)| | (DPNI) |
- +-.----------+ +---+---+----+
- . . ^ |
- . . <data avail, | |<enqueue,
- . . tx confirm> | | dequeue>
- +-------------+ . | |
- | DPRC driver | . +--------+ +------------+
- | (DPRC) | . . |DPIO obj| |DPIO service|
- +----------+--+ | driver |-| (DPIO) |
- | +--------+ +------+-----+
- |<dev add/remove> +------|-----+
- | | QBman |
- +----+--------------+ | portal i/f |
- | MC-bus driver | +------------+
- | | |
- | /soc/fsl-mc | |
- +-------------------+ |
- |
- =========================================|=========|========================
- +-+--DPIO---|-----------+
- | | |
- | QBman Portal |
- +-----------------------+
-
- ============================================================================
-
-
-DPIO Object Driver (dpio-driver.c)
-----------------------------------
-
- The dpio-driver component registers with the fsl-mc bus to handle objects of
- type "dpio". The implementation of probe() handles basic initialization
- of the DPIO including mapping of the DPIO regions (the QBman SW portal)
- and initializing interrupts and registering irq handlers. The dpio-driver
- registers the probed DPIO with dpio-service.
-
-DPIO service (dpio-service.c, dpaa2-io.h)
-------------------------------------------
-
- The dpio service component provides queuing, notification, and buffers
- management services to DPAA2 drivers, such as the Ethernet driver. A system
- will typically allocate 1 DPIO object per CPU to allow queuing operations
- to happen simultaneously across all CPUs.
-
- Notification handling
- dpaa2_io_service_register()
- dpaa2_io_service_deregister()
- dpaa2_io_service_rearm()
-
- Queuing
- dpaa2_io_service_pull_fq()
- dpaa2_io_service_pull_channel()
- dpaa2_io_service_enqueue_fq()
- dpaa2_io_service_enqueue_qd()
- dpaa2_io_store_create()
- dpaa2_io_store_destroy()
- dpaa2_io_store_next()
-
- Buffer pool management
- dpaa2_io_service_release()
- dpaa2_io_service_acquire()
-
-QBman portal interface (qbman-portal.c)
----------------------------------------
-
- The qbman-portal component provides APIs to do the low level hardware
- bit twiddling for operations such as:
- -initializing Qman software portals
- -building and sending portal commands
- -portal interrupt configuration and processing
-
- The qbman-portal APIs are not public to other drivers, and are
- only used by dpio-service.
-
-Other (dpaa2-fd.h, dpaa2-global.h)
-----------------------------------
-
- Frame descriptor and scatter-gather definitions and the APIs used to
- manipulate them are defined in dpaa2-fd.h.
-
- Dequeue result struct and parsing APIs are defined in dpaa2-global.h.