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This patch introduces a sample user space daemon which implements the virtio device backends on the host. The daemon creates/removes/configures virtio device backends by communicating with the Intel MIC Host Driver. The virtio devices currently supported are virtio net, virtio console and virtio block. Virtio net supports TSO/GSO. The daemon also monitors card shutdown status and takes appropriate actions like killing the virtio backends and resetting the card upon card shutdown and crashes. Co-author: Ashutosh Dixit <ashutosh.dixit@intel.com> Co-author: Sudeep Dutt <sudeep.dutt@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ashutosh Dixit <ashutosh.dixit@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Caz Yokoyama <Caz.Yokoyama@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Dasaratharaman Chandramouli <dasaratharaman.chandramouli@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Nikhil Rao <nikhil.rao@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Harshavardhan R Kharche <harshavardhan.r.kharche@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Sudeep Dutt <sudeep.dutt@intel.com> Acked-by: Yaozu (Eddie) Dong <eddie.dong@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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An Intel MIC X100 device is a PCIe form factor add-in coprocessor
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card based on the Intel Many Integrated Core (MIC) architecture
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that runs a Linux OS. It is a PCIe endpoint in a platform and therefore
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implements the three required standard address spaces i.e. configuration,
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memory and I/O. The host OS loads a device driver as is typical for
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PCIe devices. The card itself runs a bootstrap after reset that
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transfers control to the card OS downloaded from the host driver.
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The card OS as shipped by Intel is a Linux kernel with modifications
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for the X100 devices.
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Since it is a PCIe card, it does not have the ability to host hardware
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devices for networking, storage and console. We provide these devices
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on X100 coprocessors thus enabling a self-bootable equivalent environment
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for applications. A key benefit of our solution is that it leverages
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the standard virtio framework for network, disk and console devices,
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though in our case the virtio framework is used across a PCIe bus.
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Here is a block diagram of the various components described above. The
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virtio backends are situated on the host rather than the card given better
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single threaded performance for the host compared to MIC, the ability of
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the host to initiate DMA's to/from the card using the MIC DMA engine and
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the fact that the virtio block storage backend can only be on the host.
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+----------+ | +----------+
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| Card OS | | | Host OS |
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+----------+ | +----------+
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+-------+ +--------+ +------+ | +---------+ +--------+ +--------+
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| Virtio| |Virtio | |Virtio| | |Virtio | |Virtio | |Virtio |
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| Net | |Console | |Block | | |Net | |Console | |Block |
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| Driver| |Driver | |Driver| | |backend | |backend | |backend |
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+-------+ +--------+ +------+ | +---------+ +--------+ +--------+
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| | | |User | | |
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| | | |------|------------|---------|-------
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+-------------------+ |Kernel +--------------------------+
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| | | Virtio over PCIe IOCTLs |
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+--------------+ | |
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|Intel MIC | | +---------------+
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|Card Driver | | |Intel MIC |
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+--------------+ | |Host Driver |
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| | +---------------+
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+-------------------------------------------------------------+
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| PCIe Bus |
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+-------------------------------------------------------------+
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