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SubjectRe: [RFC 1/2] PCI-Express Non-Transparent Bridge Support
On Fri, 13 Jul 2012 14:44:59 -0700
Jon Mason <jon.mason@intel.com> wrote:

> A PCI-Express non-transparent bridge (NTB) is a point-to-point PCIe bus
> connecting 2 systems, providing electrical isolation between the two subsystems.
> A non-transparent bridge is functionally similar to a transparent bridge except
> that both sides of the bridge have their own independent address domains. The
> host on one side of the bridge will not have the visibility of the complete
> memory or I/O space on the other side of the bridge. To communicate across the
> non-transparent bridge, each NTB endpoint has one (or more) apertures exposed to
> the local system. Writes to these apertures are mirrored to memory on the
> remote system. Communications can also occur through the use of doorbell
> registers that initiate interrupts to the alternate domain, and scratch-pad
> registers accessible from both sides.
>
> The NTB device driver is needed to configure these memory windows, doorbell, and
> scratch-pad registers as well as use them in such a way as they can be turned
> into a viable communication channel to the remote system. ntb_hw.[ch]
> determines the usage model (NTB to NTB or NTB to Root Port) and abstracts away
> the underlying hardware to provide access and a common interface to the doorbell
> registers, scratch pads, and memory windows. These hardware interfaces are
> exported so that other, non-mainlined kernel drivers can access these.
> ntb_transport.[ch] also uses the exported interfaces in ntb_hw.[ch] to setup a
> communication channel(s) and provide a reliable way of transferring data from
> one side to the other, which it then exports so that "client" drivers can access
> them. These client drivers are used to provide a standard kernel interface
> (i.e., Ethernet device) to NTB, such that Linux can transfer data from one
> system to the other in a standard way.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jon Mason <jon.mason@intel.com>

This driver does some reimplementing of standard type operations is this
because you are trying to use the same code on multiple platforms?

Example:
+
+static void ntb_list_add_head(spinlock_t *lock, struct list_head *entry,
+ struct list_head *list)
+{
+ unsigned long flags;
+
+ spin_lock_irqsave(lock, flags);
+ list_add(entry, list);
+ spin_unlock_irqrestore(lock, flags);
+}
+
+static void ntb_list_add_tail(spinlock_t *lock, struct list_head *entry,
+ struct list_head *list)
+{
+ unsigned long flags;
+
+ spin_lock_irqsave(lock, flags);
+ list_add_tail(entry, list);
+ spin_unlock_irqrestore(lock, flags);
+}

Which are used on skb's and yet we already have sk_buff_head with locking?

I know you probably are committed to this API, but is there some way to
reuse existing shared memory used by virtio-net between two ports?




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