1 .. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+
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4 Linux kernel driver for Compute Engine Virtual Ethernet (gve):
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9 The GVE driver binds to a single PCI device id used by the virtual
10 Ethernet device found in some Compute Engine VMs.
12 +--------------+----------+---------+
13 |Field | Value | Comments|
14 +==============+==========+=========+
15 |Vendor ID | `0x1AE0` | Google |
16 +--------------+----------+---------+
17 |Device ID | `0x0042` | |
18 +--------------+----------+---------+
19 |Sub-vendor ID | `0x1AE0` | Google |
20 +--------------+----------+---------+
21 |Sub-device ID | `0x0058` | |
22 +--------------+----------+---------+
23 |Revision ID | `0x0` | |
24 +--------------+----------+---------+
25 |Device Class | `0x200` | Ethernet|
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30 The gVNIC PCI device exposes three 32-bit memory BARS:
31 - Bar0 - Device configuration and status registers.
32 - Bar1 - MSI-X vector table
33 - Bar2 - IRQ, RX and TX doorbells
37 The driver interacts with the device in the following ways:
39 - A block of MMIO registers
40 - See gve_register.h for more detail
42 - See description below
44 - At any time the device can be reset
46 - See supported interrupts below
47 - Transmit and Receive Queues
48 - See description below
52 All registers are MMIO and big endian.
54 The registers are used for initializing and configuring the device as well as
55 querying device status in response to management interrupts.
59 The Admin Queue is a PAGE_SIZE memory block, treated as an array of AQ
60 commands, used by the driver to issue commands to the device and set up
61 resources.The driver and the device maintain a count of how many commands
62 have been submitted and executed. To issue AQ commands, the driver must do
63 the following (with proper locking):
65 1) Copy new commands into next available slots in the AQ array
66 2) Increment its counter by he number of new commands
67 3) Write the counter into the GVE_ADMIN_QUEUE_DOORBELL register
68 4) Poll the ADMIN_QUEUE_EVENT_COUNTER register until it equals
69 the value written to the doorbell, or until a timeout.
71 The device will update the status field in each AQ command reported as
72 executed through the ADMIN_QUEUE_EVENT_COUNTER register.
76 A device reset is triggered by writing 0x0 to the AQ PFN register.
77 This causes the device to release all resources allocated by the
78 driver, including the AQ itself.
82 The following interrupts are supported by the driver:
86 The management interrupt is used by the device to tell the driver to
87 look at the GVE_DEVICE_STATUS register.
89 The handler for the management irq simply queues the service task in
90 the workqueue to check the register and acks the irq.
92 Notification Block Interrupts
93 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
94 The notification block interrupts are used to tell the driver to poll
95 the queues associated with that interrupt.
97 The handler for these irqs schedule the napi for that block to run
102 gVNIC's queues are composed of a descriptor ring and a buffer and are
103 assigned to a notification block.
105 The descriptor rings are power-of-two-sized ring buffers consisting of
106 fixed-size descriptors. They advance their head pointer using a __be32
107 doorbell located in Bar2. The tail pointers are advanced by consuming
108 descriptors in-order and updating a __be32 counter. Both the doorbell
109 and the counter overflow to zero.
111 Each queue's buffers must be registered in advance with the device as a
112 queue page list, and packet data can only be put in those pages.
116 gve maps the buffers for transmit rings into a FIFO and copies the packets
117 into the FIFO before sending them to the NIC.
121 The buffers for receive rings are put into a data ring that is the same
122 length as the descriptor ring and the head and tail pointers advance over