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Tony Nguyen says: ==================== Introduce iXD driver Larysa Zaremba says: This patch series adds the iXD driver, which supports the Intel(R) Control Plane PCI Function on Intel E2100 and later IPUs and FNICs. It facilitates a centralized control over multiple IDPF PFs/VFs/SFs exposed by the same card. The reason for the separation is to be able to offload the control plane to the host different from where the data plane is running. This is the first phase in the release of this driver where we implement the initialization of the core PCI driver. Subsequent phases will implement advanced features like usage of idpf ethernet aux device, link management, NVM update via devlink, switchdev port representors, data and exception path, flow rule programming, etc. The first phase entails the following aspects: 1. Additional libie functionalities: Patches 1-5 introduce additional common library API for drivers to communicate with the control plane through mailbox communication. A control queue is a hardware interface which is used by the driver to interact with other subsystems (like firmware). The library APIs allow the driver to setup and configure the control queues to send and receive virtchnl messages. The library has an internal bookkeeping (XN API) mechanism to keep track of the send messages. It supports both synchronous as well as asynchronous way of handling the messages. The library also handles the timeout internally for synchronous messages using events. This reduces the driver's overhead in handling the timeout error cases. The current patch series supports only APIs that are needed for device initialization. These include APIs in the libie_pci module: * Allocating/freeing the DMA memory and mapping the MMIO regions for BAR0, read/write APIs for drivers to access the MMIO memory and libie_cp module: * Control queue initialization and configuration * Transport initialization for bookkeeping * Blocking and asynchronous mailbox transactions Once the mailbox is initialized, the drivers can send and receive virtchnl messages to/from the control plane. The modules above are not supposed to be linked with the main libie library, but do share the folder with it. 2. idpf: Patches 6-11 refactor the idpf driver to use the libie APIs for control queue configuration, virtchnl transaction, device initialization and reset and adjust related code accordingly. 3. ixd: Patches 12-15 add the ixd driver and implement multiple pieces of the initialization flow as follows: * Add the ability to load * A reset is issued to ensure a clean device state, followed by initialization of the mailbox * Device capabilities: As part of initialization, the driver has to determine what the device is capable of (ex. max queues, vports, etc). This information is obtained from the firmware and stored by the driver. * Enable initial support for the devlink interface * '200GbE' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tnguy/next-queue: ixd: add devlink support ixd: add the core initialization ixd: add reset checks and initialize the mailbox ixd: add basic driver framework for Intel(R) Control Plane Function idpf: print a debug message and bail in case of non-event ctlq message idpf: make mbx_task queueing and cancelling more consistent idpf: refactor idpf to use libie control queues idpf: refactor idpf to use libie_pci APIs idpf: remove unused code for getting RSS info from device idpf: remove 'vport_params_reqd' field libie: add bookkeeping support for control queue messages libie: add control queue support libeth: allow to create fill queues without NAPI libie: add PCI device initialization helpers to libie virtchnl: move virtchnl and virtchnl2 headers to 'include/linux/net/intel' ==================== Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260812212532.905873-1-anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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