[Skiboot] [PATCH v4] phb4: Enable PCI peer-to-peer
Russell Currey
ruscur at russell.cc
Wed Aug 2 13:58:24 AEST 2017
On Tue, 2017-08-01 at 14:36 +0200, Frederic Barrat wrote:
> P9 supports PCI peer-to-peer: a PCI device can write directly to the
> mmio space of another PCI device. It completely by-passes the CPU.
>
> It requires some configuration on the PHBs involved:
>
> 1. on the initiating side, the address for the read/write operation is
> in the mmio space of the target, i.e. well outside the range normally
> allowed. So we disable range-checking on the TVT entry in bypass mode.
>
> 2. on the target side, we need to explicitly enable p2p by setting a
> bit in a configuration register. It has the side-effect of reserving
> an outbound (as seen from the CPU) store queue for p2p. Therefore we
> only enable p2p on the PHBs using it, as we don't want to waste the
> resource if we don't have to.
>
> P9 supports p2p mmio writes. Reads are currently only supported if the
> two devices are under the same PHB but that is expected to change in
> the future, and it raises questions about intermediate switches
> configuration, so we report an error for the time being.
>
> The patch adds a new OPAL call to allow the OS to declare a p2p
> (initiator, target) pair.
>
> Signed-off-by: Frederic Barrat <fbarrat at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> ---
Just a tiny nitpick below.
Reviewed-by: Russell Currey <ruscur at russell.cc>
> +static void phb4_p2p_set_initiator(struct phb4 *p, uint16_t pe_number)
> +{
> + uint64_t tve;
> + uint16_t window_id = (pe_number << 1) + 1;
> +
> + /*
> + * Initiator needs access to the MMIO space of the target,
> + * which is well beyond the 'normal' memory area. Set its TVE
> + * with no range checking.
> + */
> + PHBDBG(p, "Setting TVE#1 for peer-to-peer for pe %d\n", pe_number);
> + tve = PPC_BIT(51);
Would be nicer to set tve to bit 51 in the declaration.
> + phb4_ioda_sel(p, IODA3_TBL_TVT, window_id, false);
> + out_be64(p->regs + PHB_IODA_DATA0, tve);
> + p->tve_cache[window_id] = tve;
> +}
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