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author | Shay Agroskin <shayagr@amazon.com> | 2021-06-08 19:01:15 +0300 |
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committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2021-06-09 00:41:09 +0300 |
commit | 511c537bb5647662ff7df7a41180a1721c078720 (patch) | |
tree | 6c9d1576c01a228cb6713a02b56027c8411a5f27 /Documentation | |
parent | 15efff76491edd31f57eb3358d80868747d1397e (diff) | |
download | linux-511c537bb5647662ff7df7a41180a1721c078720.tar.xz |
net: ena: fix RST format in ENA documentation file
The documentation file used to be written in markdown format but was
converted to reStructuredText (rst).
The converted file doesn't keep up with rst format requirements which
results in hard-to-read text.
This patch fixes the formatting of the file. The patch also
* Highlights and emphasizes some lines to improve readability
* Rephrases some hard-to-understand text
* Updates outdated function descriptions.
* Removes TSO description which falsely claims the driver supports it
Signed-off-by: Shay Agroskin <shayagr@amazon.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/device_drivers/ethernet/amazon/ena.rst | 164 |
1 files changed, 78 insertions, 86 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/device_drivers/ethernet/amazon/ena.rst b/Documentation/networking/device_drivers/ethernet/amazon/ena.rst index f8c6469f2bd2..01b2a69b0cb0 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/device_drivers/ethernet/amazon/ena.rst +++ b/Documentation/networking/device_drivers/ethernet/amazon/ena.rst @@ -11,12 +11,12 @@ ENA is a networking interface designed to make good use of modern CPU features and system architectures. The ENA device exposes a lightweight management interface with a -minimal set of memory mapped registers and extendable command set +minimal set of memory mapped registers and extendible command set through an Admin Queue. The driver supports a range of ENA devices, is link-speed independent -(i.e., the same driver is used for 10GbE, 25GbE, 40GbE, etc.), and has -a negotiated and extendable feature set. +(i.e., the same driver is used for 10GbE, 25GbE, 40GbE, etc), and has +a negotiated and extendible feature set. Some ENA devices support SR-IOV. This driver is used for both the SR-IOV Physical Function (PF) and Virtual Function (VF) devices. @@ -27,9 +27,9 @@ is advertised by the device via the Admin Queue), a dedicated MSI-X interrupt vector per Tx/Rx queue pair, adaptive interrupt moderation, and CPU cacheline optimized data placement. -The ENA driver supports industry standard TCP/IP offload features such -as checksum offload and TCP transmit segmentation offload (TSO). -Receive-side scaling (RSS) is supported for multi-core scaling. +The ENA driver supports industry standard TCP/IP offload features such as +checksum offload. Receive-side scaling (RSS) is supported for multi-core +scaling. The ENA driver and its corresponding devices implement health monitoring mechanisms such as watchdog, enabling the device and driver @@ -38,22 +38,20 @@ debug logs. Some of the ENA devices support a working mode called Low-latency Queue (LLQ), which saves several more microseconds. - 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. + 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. ================= ====================================================== @@ -69,7 +67,7 @@ ENA management interface is exposed by means of: - Asynchronous Event Notification Queue (AENQ) ENA device MMIO Registers are accessed only during driver -initialization and are not involved in further normal device +initialization and are not used during further normal device operation. AQ is used for submitting management commands, and the @@ -100,28 +98,27 @@ group may have multiple syndromes, as shown below The events are: - ==================== =============== - Group Syndrome - ==================== =============== - Link state change **X** - Fatal error **X** - Notification Suspend traffic - Notification Resume traffic - Keep-Alive **X** - ==================== =============== +==================== =============== +Group Syndrome +==================== =============== +Link state change **X** +Fatal error **X** +Notification Suspend traffic +Notification Resume traffic +Keep-Alive **X** +==================== =============== ACQ and AENQ share the same MSI-X vector. -Keep-Alive is a special mechanism that allows monitoring of the -device's health. The driver maintains a watchdog (WD) handler which, -if fired, logs the current state and statistics then resets and -restarts the ENA device and driver. A Keep-Alive event is delivered by -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. +Keep-Alive is a special mechanism that allows monitoring the device's health. +A Keep-Alive event is delivered by the device every second. +The driver maintains a watchdog (WD) handler which logs the current state and +statistics. If the keep-alive events aren't delivered as expected the WD resets +the device and the driver. 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. @@ -131,26 +128,24 @@ physical memory. The ENA driver supports two Queue Operation modes for Tx SQs: -- Regular mode +- **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. - * 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 + device. For this operation mode, the driver uses a dedicated PCI + device memory BAR, which is mapped with write-combine capability. -- 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 - device. For this operation mode, the driver uses a dedicated PCI - device memory BAR, which is mapped with write-combine capability. + **Note that** not all ENA devices support LLQ, and this feature is negotiated + with the device upon initialization. If the ENA device does not + support LLQ mode, the driver falls back to the regular mode. The Rx SQs support only the regular mode. -Note: Not all ENA devices support LLQ, and this feature is negotiated - with the device upon initialization. If the ENA device does not - support LLQ mode, the driver falls back to the regular mode. - The driver supports multi-queue for both Tx and Rx. This has various benefits: @@ -165,6 +160,7 @@ benefits: 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). @@ -190,20 +186,21 @@ unmasked by the driver after NAPI processing is complete. Interrupt Moderation ==================== + ENA driver and device can operate in conventional or adaptive interrupt moderation mode. -In conventional mode the driver instructs device to postpone interrupt +**In conventional mode** the driver instructs device to postpone interrupt posting according to static interrupt delay value. The interrupt delay -value can be configured through ethtool(8). The following ethtool -parameters are supported by the driver: tx-usecs, rx-usecs +value can be configured through `ethtool(8)`. The following `ethtool` +parameters are supported by the driver: ``tx-usecs``, ``rx-usecs`` -In adaptive interrupt moderation mode the interrupt delay value is +**In adaptive interrupt** moderation mode the interrupt delay value is updated by the driver dynamically and adjusted every NAPI cycle according to the traffic nature. -Adaptive coalescing can be switched on/off through ethtool(8) -adaptive_rx on|off parameter. +Adaptive coalescing can be switched on/off through `ethtool(8)`'s +:code:`adaptive_rx on|off` parameter. More information about Adaptive Interrupt Moderation (DIM) can be found in Documentation/networking/net_dim.rst @@ -214,17 +211,10 @@ 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 -=== -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 ========== -The user can obtain ENA device and driver statistics using ethtool. + +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. @@ -232,22 +222,23 @@ In addition the driver logs the stats to syslog upon device reset. 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. +via `ip(8)` and similar legacy tools. 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 === + - The ENA device supports RSS that allows flexible Rx traffic steering. - Toeplitz and CRC32 hash functions are supported. @@ -260,41 +251,42 @@ RSS function delivered in the Rx CQ descriptor is set in the received SKB. - The user can provide a hash key, hash function, and configure the - indirection table through ethtool(8). + indirection table through `ethtool(8)`. DATA PATH ========= + Tx -- -ena_start_xmit() is called by the stack. This function does the following: +:code:`ena_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.) +- Maps data buffers (``skb->data`` and frags). +- Populates ``ena_buf`` for the push buffer (if the driver and device are + in push mode). - Prepares ENA bufs for the remaining frags. -- Allocates a new request ID from the empty req_id ring. The request +- Allocates a new request ID from the empty ``req_id`` ring. The request ID is the index of the packet in the Tx info. This is used for - out-of-order TX completions. + out-of-order Tx completions. - Adds the packet to the proper place in the Tx ring. -- Calls ena_com_prepare_tx(), an ENA communication layer that converts - the ena_bufs to ENA descriptors (and adds meta ENA descriptors as - needed.) +- Calls :code:`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.) + to the Device memory space (if in push mode). -- Writes doorbell to the ENA device. +- Writes a doorbell to the ENA device. - When the ENA device finishes sending the packet, a completion interrupt is raised. - The interrupt handler schedules NAPI. -- The ena_clean_tx_irq() function is called. This function handles the +- The :code:`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. + * ``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. @@ -303,12 +295,11 @@ 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 - ena_rx_pkt(), an ENA communication layer function, which returns the - number of descriptors used for a new unhandled packet, and zero if +- The :code:`ena_clean_rx_irq()` function is called. This function calls + :code:`ena_com_rx_pkt()`, an ENA communication layer function, which returns the + number of descriptors used for a new packet, and zero if no new packet is found. -- Then it calls the ena_clean_rx_irq() function. -- ena_eth_rx_skb() checks packet length: +- :code:`ena_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 @@ -317,9 +308,10 @@ Rx - 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. + * Otherwise the function unmaps the Rx buffer, sets the first + descriptor as `skb`'s linear part and the other descriptors as the + `skb`'s 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(). + checksum hw verify result, etc), and then passed to the network + stack, using the NAPI interface function :code:`napi_gro_receive()`. |