Re: NTB driver support in haswell platform?

Jon Mason
2014-06-11T17:20:25Z

On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 05:03:38PM +0800, Yijing Wang wrote:
> Hi Jon,
> I have a Intel Haswell platform in hand, and our team want to use NTB in this platform.
> I checked the current intel NTB driver in Linux kernel, I found the Haswell NTB pci device id
> is not contained in ntb_pci_tbl[]. I want to know whether current kernel ntb driver can support
> the ntb device in Haswell platform ?

Yes, it does support Haswell and the Device IDs are in there.
PCI_DEVICE_ID_INTEL_NTB_B2B_HSX, PCI_DEVICE_ID_INTEL_NTB_PS_HSX, and
PCI_DEVICE_ID_INTEL_NTB_SS_HSX are the relevant dev ids for Haswell.

> Haswell NTB device id:
>
> From Haswell EDS 7.4.2
>
> did
> Bus: 0 Device: 3 Function: 0 Offset: 2
> Bit Attr Default Description
> 15:0 RO-V 2F08h Device_Identification_Number — Device ID values vary from function to function.
> Bits 15:8 are equal to 0x2F. The following list is a breakdown of the function groups.
> 0x2F00 - 0x2F1F : PCI Express and DMI2
> 0x2F20 - 0x2F3F : Integrated I/O Features
> 0x2F40 - 0x2F5F : Performance Monitors
> 0x2F80 - 0x2F9F : Intel QPI
> 0x2FA0 - 0x2FBF : Home Agent/Memory Controller
> 0x2FC0 - 0x2FDF : Power Management
> 0x2FE0 - 0x2FFF : Cbo/Ring
> Default value may vary based on bus, device, and function of this CSR location.
>
>
> Current ntb_pci_tbl[] in Linux:
>
> #define PCI_DEVICE_ID_INTEL_NTB_B2B_JSF 0x3725
> #define PCI_DEVICE_ID_INTEL_NTB_PS_JSF 0x3726
> #define PCI_DEVICE_ID_INTEL_NTB_SS_JSF 0x3727
> #define PCI_DEVICE_ID_INTEL_NTB_B2B_SNB 0x3C0D
> #define PCI_DEVICE_ID_INTEL_NTB_PS_SNB 0x3C0E
> #define PCI_DEVICE_ID_INTEL_NTB_SS_SNB 0x3C0F
> #define PCI_DEVICE_ID_INTEL_NTB_B2B_IVT 0x0E0D
> #define PCI_DEVICE_ID_INTEL_NTB_PS_IVT 0x0E0E
> #define PCI_DEVICE_ID_INTEL_NTB_SS_IVT 0x0E0F
> #define PCI_DEVICE_ID_INTEL_NTB_B2B_HSX 0x2F0D
> #define PCI_DEVICE_ID_INTEL_NTB_PS_HSX 0x2F0E
> #define PCI_DEVICE_ID_INTEL_NTB_SS_HSX 0x2F0F
> #define PCI_DEVICE_ID_INTEL_NTB_B2B_BWD 0x0C4E
>
> So we should modify the default device id to 0x2F0D, 0x2F0E or 0x2F0F ?

The device IDs are present above: PCI_DEVICE_ID_INTEL_NTB_B2B_HSX,
PCI_DEVICE_ID_INTEL_NTB_PS_HSX, and PCI_DEVICE_ID_INTEL_NTB_SS_HSX.

> What's the difference between them?

The last 3 letters are the name of the CPU where NTB is found. HSX is
Haswell Xeon. The 2-3 letters before that are the configuration type
of the NTB device. B2B is for "Back-to-back" configurations, aka
"NTB-NTB".

B2B
[CPU]---[NTB]===[NTB]---[CPU]

PS/SS is for NTB-RP configurations. PS is "Primary Side" and SS is
"Secondary Side".

[CPU]---[SS|PS]---[CPU]

I have an NTB wiki on my github account
(https://github.com/jonmason/ntb/wiki) describing the configuration,
etc. Also on the wiki is a link to a doc (not written by me, and
contains references to a driver that was not made public) that has
some graphics that might be useful. Specifically, pages 10 and 17.
To save time, the URL is
http://download.intel.com/design/intarch/papers/323328.pdf

Let me know if you have any questions or issues, and I'll be happy to
walk you through it.

Thanks,
Jon

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> Thanks!
> Yijing.
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> Yijing
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