[PATCH V2 0/9] PCIe TPH and cache direct injection support

Wei Huang
2024-05-31T21:38:58Z

Hi All,

TPH (TLP Processing Hints) is a PCIe feature that allows endpoint devices
to provide optimization hints for requests that target memory space. These
hints, in a format called steering tag (ST), are provided in the requester's
TLP headers and allow the system hardware, including the Root Complex, to
optimize the utilization of platform resources for the requests.

Upcoming AMD hardware implement a new Cache Injection feature that leverages
TPH. Cache Injection allows PCIe endpoints to inject I/O Coherent DMA writes
directly into an L2 within the CCX (core complex) closest to the CPU core
that will consume it. This technology is aimed at applications requiring high
performance and low latency, such as networking and storage applications.

This series introduces generic TPH support in Linux, allowing STs to be
retrieved from ACPI _DSM (as defined by ACPI) and used by PCIe endpoint
drivers as needed. As a demonstration, it includes an example usage in the
Broadcom BNXT driver. When running on Broadcom NICs with the appropriate
firmware, Cache Injection shows substantial memory bandwidth savings in
real-world benchmarks. This solution is vendor-neutral, as both TPH and ACPI
_DSM are industry standards.

V1->V2:
* Rebase on top of pci.git/for-linus (6.10-rc1)
* Address mismatched data types reported by Sparse (Sparse checking passed)
* Add a new API, pcie_tph_intr_vec_supported(), for checking IRQ mode support
* Skip bnxt affinity notifier registration if pcie_tph_intr_vec_supported()=false
* Minor fixes in bnxt driver (i.e. warning messages)

Manoj Panicker (1):
bnxt_en: Add TPH support in BNXT driver

Michael Chan (1):
bnxt_en: Pass NQ ID to the FW when allocating RX/RX AGG rings

Wei Huang (8):
PCI: Introduce PCIe TPH support framework
PCI: Add TPH related register definition
PCI/TPH: Implement a command line option to disable TPH
PCI/TPH: Implement a command line option to force No ST Mode
PCI/TPH: Introduce API functions to manage steering tags
PCI/TPH: Retrieve steering tag from ACPI _DSM
PCI/TPH: Add TPH documentation

Documentation/PCI/index.rst | 1 +
Documentation/PCI/tph.rst | 57 ++
.../admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 2 +
Documentation/driver-api/pci/pci.rst | 3 +
drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt.c | 62 +-
drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt.h | 4 +
drivers/pci/pci-driver.c | 12 +-
drivers/pci/pci.c | 24 +
drivers/pci/pci.h | 6 +
drivers/pci/pcie/Kconfig | 10 +
drivers/pci/pcie/Makefile | 1 +
drivers/pci/pcie/tph.c | 582 ++++++++++++++++++
drivers/pci/probe.c | 1 +
drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci_config.c | 7 +-
include/linux/pci-tph.h | 78 +++
include/linux/pci.h | 6 +
include/uapi/linux/pci_regs.h | 35 +-
17 files changed, 881 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 Documentation/PCI/tph.rst
create mode 100644 drivers/pci/pcie/tph.c
create mode 100644 include/linux/pci-tph.h

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