From: "Yuquan Wang" <wangyuquan1236@phytium.com.cn>
To: linux-cxl <linux-cxl@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: A confusion about cxl.mem in CXL drivers
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2023 16:49:23 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2023092216492261309286@phytium.com.cn> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20230920131902.0000504f@Huawei.com
On 2023-09-20 20:19, jonathan.cameron wrote:
Thanks for your patient explanation.
>
> So from driver side of things, the CXL.IO stuff is either in ECAM (for config
> space) or mapped as PCIe BARs. The CXL.mem stuff is mapped via the Host Physical
> Addresses described in a CXL Fixed Memory Window.
>
> So the right type of access is used based on the underlying hardware performing
> the routing for the appropriate Host Physical Address range. Same applies
> on top of QEMU.
>
Therefore, from the view of kernel side, the kernel do not need to distinguish the physical cxl subprotocol
(cxl.io,cxl.cache,cxl.mem). In fact, the underlying hardware would directly finish this work so system software
don't care about it.
According to the instance of qemu virt machine, my understanding is below:
1) CXL.IO: finding, setting and enumerating CXL ECAM/BARs (programmed in cxl_acpi, cxl_pci drivers)
Underlying hardware performing the routing : PCIe RC
2) CXL.MEM: host is going to access the memory mapped in CFMWs
Underlying hardware performing the routing : HDM decoders
Many thanks
Yuquan
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2023-09-20 12:19 ` A confusion about cxl.mem in CXL drivers Jonathan Cameron
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