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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/device_drivers/freescale/dpaa2/overview.rst for
23 a general overview of DPAA2 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:
31 A. allow other drivers, such as the Ethernet driver, to enqueue and dequeue
32 frames for their respective objects
33 B. allow drivers to register callbacks for data availability notifications
34 when data becomes available on a queue or channel
35 C. allow drivers to manage hardware buffer pools
37 The Linux DPIO driver consists of 3 primary components--
38 DPIO object driver-- fsl-mc driver that manages the DPIO object
40 DPIO service-- provides APIs to other Linux drivers for services
42 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::
66 +------------+ +------------+
67 | Allocator |. . . . . . . | Ethernet |
68 |(DPMCP,DPBP)| | (DPNI) |
69 +-.----------+ +---+---+----+
71 . . <data avail, | |<enqueue,
72 . . tx confirm> | | dequeue>
74 | DPRC driver | . +--------+ +------------+
75 | (DPRC) | . . |DPIO obj| |DPIO service|
76 +----------+--+ | driver |-| (DPIO) |
77 | +--------+ +------+-----+
78 |<dev add/remove> +------|-----+
80 +----+--------------+ | portal i/f |
81 | MC-bus driver | +------------+
84 +-------------------+ |
86 =========================================|=========|========================
87 +-+--DPIO---|-----------+
90 +-----------------------+
92 ============================================================================
95 DPIO Object Driver (dpio-driver.c)
96 ----------------------------------
98 The dpio-driver component registers with the fsl-mc bus to handle objects of
99 type "dpio". The implementation of probe() handles basic initialization
100 of the DPIO including mapping of the DPIO regions (the QBman SW portal)
101 and initializing interrupts and registering irq handlers. The dpio-driver
102 registers the probed DPIO with dpio-service.
104 DPIO service (dpio-service.c, dpaa2-io.h)
105 ------------------------------------------
107 The dpio service component provides queuing, notification, and buffers
108 management services to DPAA2 drivers, such as the Ethernet driver. A system
109 will typically allocate 1 DPIO object per CPU to allow queuing operations
110 to happen simultaneously across all CPUs.
112 Notification handling
113 dpaa2_io_service_register()
115 dpaa2_io_service_deregister()
117 dpaa2_io_service_rearm()
120 dpaa2_io_service_pull_fq()
122 dpaa2_io_service_pull_channel()
124 dpaa2_io_service_enqueue_fq()
126 dpaa2_io_service_enqueue_qd()
128 dpaa2_io_store_create()
130 dpaa2_io_store_destroy()
132 dpaa2_io_store_next()
134 Buffer pool management
135 dpaa2_io_service_release()
137 dpaa2_io_service_acquire()
139 QBman portal interface (qbman-portal.c)
140 ---------------------------------------
142 The qbman-portal component provides APIs to do the low level hardware
143 bit twiddling for operations such as:
145 - initializing Qman software portals
146 - 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.