From d8e516bac73f2eb512c11308cb860c8ad3eacaa8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Roy Pledge Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2018 09:21:31 -0500 Subject: soc: fsl: dpio: Convert DPIO documentation to .rst MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Convert the Datapath I/O documentation to .rst format and move to the Documation/networking/dpaa2 directory Signed-off-by: Roy Pledge Reviewed-by: Horia Geantă Reviewed-by: Ioana Radulescu Signed-off-by: Li Yang --- drivers/soc/fsl/dpio/dpio-driver.txt | 135 ----------------------------------- 1 file changed, 135 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 drivers/soc/fsl/dpio/dpio-driver.txt (limited to 'drivers/soc') diff --git a/drivers/soc/fsl/dpio/dpio-driver.txt b/drivers/soc/fsl/dpio/dpio-driver.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 72ba9da3d179..000000000000 --- a/drivers/soc/fsl/dpio/dpio-driver.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,135 +0,0 @@ -Copyright 2016 NXP - -Introduction ------------- - -A DPAA2 DPIO (Data Path I/O) is a hardware object that provides -interfaces to enqueue and dequeue frames to/from network interfaces -and other accelerators. A DPIO also provides hardware buffer -pool management for network interfaces. - -This document provides an overview the Linux DPIO driver, its -subcomponents, and its APIs. - -See Documentation/networking/dpaa2/overview.rst for a general overview of DPAA2 -and the general DPAA2 driver architecture in Linux. - -Driver Overview ---------------- - -The DPIO driver is bound to DPIO objects discovered on the fsl-mc bus and -provides services that: - A) allow other drivers, such as the Ethernet driver, to enqueue and dequeue - frames for their respective objects - B) allow drivers to register callbacks for data availability notifications - when data becomes available on a queue or channel - C) allow drivers to manage hardware buffer pools - -The Linux DPIO driver consists of 3 primary components-- - DPIO object driver-- fsl-mc driver that manages the DPIO object - DPIO service-- provides APIs to other Linux drivers for services - QBman portal interface-- sends portal commands, gets responses - - fsl-mc other - bus drivers - | | - +---+----+ +------+-----+ - |DPIO obj| |DPIO service| - | driver |---| (DPIO) | - +--------+ +------+-----+ - | - +------+-----+ - | QBman | - | portal i/f | - +------------+ - | - hardware - -The diagram below shows how the DPIO driver components fit with the other -DPAA2 Linux driver components: - +------------+ - | OS Network | - | Stack | - +------------+ +------------+ - | Allocator |. . . . . . . | Ethernet | - |(DPMCP,DPBP)| | (DPNI) | - +-.----------+ +---+---+----+ - . . ^ | - . . | | dequeue> - +-------------+ . | | - | DPRC driver | . +--------+ +------------+ - | (DPRC) | . . |DPIO obj| |DPIO service| - +----------+--+ | driver |-| (DPIO) | - | +--------+ +------+-----+ - | +------|-----+ - | | QBman | - +----+--------------+ | portal i/f | - | MC-bus driver | +------------+ - | | | - | /soc/fsl-mc | | - +-------------------+ | - | - =========================================|=========|======================== - +-+--DPIO---|-----------+ - | | | - | QBman Portal | - +-----------------------+ - - ============================================================================ - - -DPIO Object Driver (dpio-driver.c) ----------------------------------- - - The dpio-driver component registers with the fsl-mc bus to handle objects of - type "dpio". The implementation of probe() handles basic initialization - of the DPIO including mapping of the DPIO regions (the QBman SW portal) - and initializing interrupts and registering irq handlers. The dpio-driver - registers the probed DPIO with dpio-service. - -DPIO service (dpio-service.c, dpaa2-io.h) ------------------------------------------- - - The dpio service component provides queuing, notification, and buffers - management services to DPAA2 drivers, such as the Ethernet driver. A system - will typically allocate 1 DPIO object per CPU to allow queuing operations - to happen simultaneously across all CPUs. - - Notification handling - dpaa2_io_service_register() - dpaa2_io_service_deregister() - dpaa2_io_service_rearm() - - Queuing - dpaa2_io_service_pull_fq() - dpaa2_io_service_pull_channel() - dpaa2_io_service_enqueue_fq() - dpaa2_io_service_enqueue_qd() - dpaa2_io_store_create() - dpaa2_io_store_destroy() - dpaa2_io_store_next() - - Buffer pool management - dpaa2_io_service_release() - dpaa2_io_service_acquire() - -QBman portal interface (qbman-portal.c) ---------------------------------------- - - The qbman-portal component provides APIs to do the low level hardware - bit twiddling for operations such as: - -initializing Qman software portals - -building and sending portal commands - -portal interrupt configuration and processing - - The qbman-portal APIs are not public to other drivers, and are - only used by dpio-service. - -Other (dpaa2-fd.h, dpaa2-global.h) ----------------------------------- - - Frame descriptor and scatter-gather definitions and the APIs used to - manipulate them are defined in dpaa2-fd.h. - - Dequeue result struct and parsing APIs are defined in dpaa2-global.h. -- cgit v1.2.3