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3 DPAA2 DPIO (Data Path I/O) Overview
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6 :Copyright: |copy| 2016-2018 NXP
8 This document provides an overview of the Freescale DPAA2 DPIO
14 A DPAA2 DPIO (Data Path I/O) is a hardware object that provides
15 interfaces to enqueue and dequeue frames to/from network interfaces
16 and other accelerators. A DPIO also provides hardware buffer
17 pool management for network interfaces.
19 This document provides an overview the Linux DPIO driver, its
20 subcomponents, and its APIs.
22 See Documentation/networking/dpaa2/overview.rst for a general overview of DPAA2
23 and the general DPAA2 driver architecture in Linux.
28 The DPIO driver is bound to DPIO objects discovered on the fsl-mc bus and
29 provides services that:
30 A) allow other drivers, such as the Ethernet driver, to enqueue and dequeue
31 frames for their respective objects
32 B) allow drivers to register callbacks for data availability notifications
33 when data becomes available on a queue or channel
34 C) allow drivers to manage hardware buffer pools
36 The Linux DPIO driver consists of 3 primary components--
37 DPIO object driver-- fsl-mc driver that manages the DPIO object
39 DPIO service-- provides APIs to other Linux drivers for services
41 QBman portal interface-- sends portal commands, gets responses
47 +---+----+ +------+-----+
48 |DPIO obj| |DPIO service|
49 | driver |---| (DPIO) |
50 +--------+ +------+-----+
60 The diagram below shows how the DPIO driver components fit with the other
61 DPAA2 Linux driver components::
65 +------------+ +------------+
66 | Allocator |. . . . . . . | Ethernet |
67 |(DPMCP,DPBP)| | (DPNI) |
68 +-.----------+ +---+---+----+
70 . . <data avail, | |<enqueue,
71 . . tx confirm> | | dequeue>
73 | DPRC driver | . +--------+ +------------+
74 | (DPRC) | . . |DPIO obj| |DPIO service|
75 +----------+--+ | driver |-| (DPIO) |
76 | +--------+ +------+-----+
77 |<dev add/remove> +------|-----+
79 +----+--------------+ | portal i/f |
80 | MC-bus driver | +------------+
83 +-------------------+ |
85 =========================================|=========|========================
86 +-+--DPIO---|-----------+
89 +-----------------------+
91 ============================================================================
94 DPIO Object Driver (dpio-driver.c)
95 ----------------------------------
97 The dpio-driver component registers with the fsl-mc bus to handle objects of
98 type "dpio". The implementation of probe() handles basic initialization
99 of the DPIO including mapping of the DPIO regions (the QBman SW portal)
100 and initializing interrupts and registering irq handlers. The dpio-driver
101 registers the probed DPIO with dpio-service.
103 DPIO service (dpio-service.c, dpaa2-io.h)
104 ------------------------------------------
106 The dpio service component provides queuing, notification, and buffers
107 management services to DPAA2 drivers, such as the Ethernet driver. A system
108 will typically allocate 1 DPIO object per CPU to allow queuing operations
109 to happen simultaneously across all CPUs.
111 Notification handling
112 dpaa2_io_service_register()
114 dpaa2_io_service_deregister()
116 dpaa2_io_service_rearm()
119 dpaa2_io_service_pull_fq()
121 dpaa2_io_service_pull_channel()
123 dpaa2_io_service_enqueue_fq()
125 dpaa2_io_service_enqueue_qd()
127 dpaa2_io_store_create()
129 dpaa2_io_store_destroy()
131 dpaa2_io_store_next()
133 Buffer pool management
134 dpaa2_io_service_release()
136 dpaa2_io_service_acquire()
138 QBman portal interface (qbman-portal.c)
139 ---------------------------------------
141 The qbman-portal component provides APIs to do the low level hardware
142 bit twiddling for operations such as:
143 -initializing Qman software portals
145 -building and sending portal commands
147 -portal interrupt configuration and processing
149 The qbman-portal APIs are not public to other drivers, and are
150 only used by dpio-service.
152 Other (dpaa2-fd.h, dpaa2-global.h)
153 ----------------------------------
155 Frame descriptor and scatter-gather definitions and the APIs used to
156 manipulate them are defined in dpaa2-fd.h.
158 Dequeue result struct and parsing APIs are defined in dpaa2-global.h.