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Commit f69bcbf3 authored by Ashutosh Dixit's avatar Ashutosh Dixit Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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Intel MIC Host Driver Changes for Virtio Devices.



This patch introduces the host "Virtio over PCIe" interface for
Intel MIC. It allows creating user space backends on the host and instantiating
virtio devices for them on the Intel MIC card. It uses the existing VRINGH
infrastructure in the kernel to access virtio rings from the host. A character
device per MIC is exposed with IOCTL, mmap and poll callbacks. This allows the
user space backend to:
(a) add/remove a virtio device via a device page.
(b) map (R/O) virtio rings and device page to user space.
(c) poll for availability of data.
(d) copy a descriptor or entire descriptor chain to/from the card.
(e) modify virtio configuration.
(f) handle virtio device reset.
The buffers are copied over using CPU copies for this initial patch
and host initiated MIC DMA support is planned for future patches.
The avail and desc virtio rings are in host memory and the used ring
is in card memory to maximize writes across PCIe for performance.

Co-author: Sudeep Dutt <sudeep.dutt@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAshutosh Dixit <ashutosh.dixit@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarCaz Yokoyama <Caz.Yokoyama@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDasaratharaman Chandramouli <dasaratharaman.chandramouli@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarNikhil Rao <nikhil.rao@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarHarshavardhan R Kharche <harshavardhan.r.kharche@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSudeep Dutt <sudeep.dutt@intel.com>
Acked-by: default avatarYaozu (Eddie) Dong <eddie.dong@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarPeter P Waskiewicz Jr <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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