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diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/cxl/access-coordinates.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/cxl/access-coordinates.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..b07950ea30c9 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/driver-api/cxl/access-coordinates.rst @@ -0,0 +1,91 @@ +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 +.. include:: <isonum.txt> + +================================== +CXL Access Coordinates Computation +================================== + +Shared Upstream Link Calculation +================================ +For certain CXL region construction with endpoints behind CXL switches (SW) or +Root Ports (RP), there is the possibility of the total bandwidth for all +the endpoints behind a switch being more than the switch upstream link. +A similar situation can occur within the host, upstream of the root ports. +The CXL driver performs an additional pass after all the targets have +arrived for a region in order to recalculate the bandwidths with possible +upstream link being a limiting factor in mind. + +The algorithm assumes the configuration is a symmetric topology as that +maximizes performance. When asymmetric topology is detected, the calculation +is aborted. An asymmetric topology is detected during topology walk where the +number of RPs detected as a grandparent is not equal to the number of devices +iterated in the same iteration loop. The assumption is made that subtle +asymmetry in properties does not happen and all paths to EPs are equal. + +There can be multiple switches under an RP. There can be multiple RPs under +a CXL Host Bridge (HB). There can be multiple HBs under a CXL Fixed Memory +Window Structure (CFMWS). + +An example hierarchy: + +> CFMWS 0 +> | +> _________|_________ +> | | +> ACPI0017-0 ACPI0017-1 +> GP0/HB0/ACPI0016-0 GP1/HB1/ACPI0016-1 +> | | | | +> RP0 RP1 RP2 RP3 +> | | | | +> SW 0 SW 1 SW 2 SW 3 +> | | | | | | | | +> EP0 EP1 EP2 EP3 EP4 EP5 EP6 EP7 + +Computation for the example hierarchy: + +Min (GP0 to CPU BW, + Min(SW 0 Upstream Link to RP0 BW, + Min(SW0SSLBIS for SW0DSP0 (EP0), EP0 DSLBIS, EP0 Upstream Link) + + Min(SW0SSLBIS for SW0DSP1 (EP1), EP1 DSLBIS, EP1 Upstream link)) + + Min(SW 1 Upstream Link to RP1 BW, + Min(SW1SSLBIS for SW1DSP0 (EP2), EP2 DSLBIS, EP2 Upstream Link) + + Min(SW1SSLBIS for SW1DSP1 (EP3), EP3 DSLBIS, EP3 Upstream link))) + +Min (GP1 to CPU BW, + Min(SW 2 Upstream Link to RP2 BW, + Min(SW2SSLBIS for SW2DSP0 (EP4), EP4 DSLBIS, EP4 Upstream Link) + + Min(SW2SSLBIS for SW2DSP1 (EP5), EP5 DSLBIS, EP5 Upstream link)) + + Min(SW 3 Upstream Link to RP3 BW, + Min(SW3SSLBIS for SW3DSP0 (EP6), EP6 DSLBIS, EP6 Upstream Link) + + Min(SW3SSLBIS for SW3DSP1 (EP7), EP7 DSLBIS, EP7 Upstream link)))) + +The calculation starts at cxl_region_shared_upstream_perf_update(). A xarray +is created to collect all the endpoint bandwidths via the +cxl_endpoint_gather_bandwidth() function. The min() of bandwidth from the +endpoint CDAT and the upstream link bandwidth is calculated. If the endpoint +has a CXL switch as a parent, then min() of calculated bandwidth and the +bandwidth from the SSLBIS for the switch downstream port that is associated +with the endpoint is calculated. The final bandwidth is stored in a +'struct cxl_perf_ctx' in the xarray indexed by a device pointer. If the +endpoint is direct attached to a root port (RP), the device pointer would be an +RP device. If the endpoint is behind a switch, the device pointer would be the +upstream device of the parent switch. + +At the next stage, the code walks through one or more switches if they exist +in the topology. For endpoints directly attached to RPs, this step is skipped. +If there is another switch upstream, the code takes the min() of the current +gathered bandwidth and the upstream link bandwidth. If there's a switch +upstream, then the SSLBIS of the upstream switch. + +Once the topology walk reaches the RP, whether it's direct attached endpoints +or walking through the switch(es), cxl_rp_gather_bandwidth() is called. At +this point all the bandwidths are aggregated per each host bridge, which is +also the index for the resulting xarray. + +The next step is to take the min() of the per host bridge bandwidth and the +bandwidth from the Generic Port (GP). The bandwidths for the GP is retrieved +via ACPI tables SRAT/HMAT. The min bandwidth are aggregated under the same +ACPI0017 device to form a new xarray. + +Finally, the cxl_region_update_bandwidth() is called and the aggregated +bandwidth from all the members of the last xarray is updated for the +access coordinates residing in the cxl region (cxlr) context. diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/cxl/index.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/cxl/index.rst index 12b82725d322..965ba90e8fb7 100644 --- a/Documentation/driver-api/cxl/index.rst +++ b/Documentation/driver-api/cxl/index.rst @@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ Compute Express Link :maxdepth: 1 memory-devices + access-coordinates maturity-map |