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diff --git a/static/freebsd/man4/ntb_transport.4 b/static/freebsd/man4/ntb_transport.4 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..460e3bc1 --- /dev/null +++ b/static/freebsd/man4/ntb_transport.4 @@ -0,0 +1,112 @@ +.\" +.\" Copyright (c) 2016-2019 Alexander Motin <mav@FreeBSD.org> +.\" All rights reserved. +.\" +.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without +.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions +.\" are met: +.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. +.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the +.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. +.\" +.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND +.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE +.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE +.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE +.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL +.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS +.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) +.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT +.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY +.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF +.\" SUCH DAMAGE. +.\" +.Dd November 9, 2019 +.Dt NTB_TRANSPORT 4 +.Os +.Sh NAME +.Nm ntb_transport +.Nd Packet-oriented transport for Non-Transparent Bridges +.Sh SYNOPSIS +To compile this driver into your kernel, +place the following lines in your kernel configuration file: +.Bd -ragged -offset indent +.Cd "device ntb" +.Cd "device ntb_transport" +.Ed +.Pp +Or, to load the driver as a module at boot, place the following line in +.Xr loader.conf 5 : +.Bd -literal -offset indent +ntb_transport_load="YES" +.Ed +.Pp +The following tunables are settable from the +.Xr loader 8 : +.Bl -ohang +.It Va hw.ntb_transport.debug_level +Driver debug level. +The default value is 0, higher means more verbose. +.It Va hw.ntb_transport.max_mw_size +Limits maximum memory window usage. +Allocation of big physically contiguous memory buffer may be a problem, +while too big buffers makes no much sense for low latency network interface. +.It Va hint.ntb_transport. Ns Ar X Ns Va .config +Configures a set of the transport consumers, separated by commas. +Each consumer can be configured as: "[<name>][:<queues>]", where: +.Va name +is a name of the driver to attach (empty means any), +.Va queues +is a number of queues to allocate (empty means automatic). +The default configuration is empty string, which means single consumer +with one queue per memory window, allowing any driver to attach. +.It Va hint.ntb_transport. Ns Ar X Ns Va .compact +Non-zero value enables compact version of scratchpad protocol, using half +as many registers. +Enabled automatically if there is not enough registers to negotiate all +available memory windows. +The compact version does not support memory windows of 4GB and above. +.El +.Sh DESCRIPTION +The +.Nm +driver attaches on top of the +.Nm ntb +driver to utilize its resources to create a set of bidirectional queues, +delivering packets between the systems. +The primary purpose of this driver is to be used by +.Nm if_ntb +network interface, but other consumers may also be developed using KPI. +.Pp +Each +.Nm +require from underlying +.Nm ntb +instance: +.Bl -bullet -compact +.It +1 or more memory windows; +.It +6 scratchpads, plus 2 more for each additional memory window, +or 3 plus 1 in case of compact protocol; +.It +1 doorbell for each memory window or configured queue. +.El +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr if_ntb 4 , +.Xr ntb 4 , +.Xr ntb_hw_amd 4 , +.Xr ntb_hw_intel 4 , +.Xr ntb_hw_plx 4 +.Sh AUTHORS +.An -nosplit +The +.Nm +driver was developed by Intel and originally written by +.An Carl Delsey Aq Mt carl@FreeBSD.org . +Later improvements were done by +.An Conrad E. Meyer Aq Mt cem@FreeBSD.org +and +.An Alexander Motin Aq Mt mav@FreeBSD.org . |
