1. Marvell CNXK BPHY Driver
CN10K/CN9K Fusion product families offer an internal BPHY unit which provides set of hardware accelerators for performing baseband related operations. Connectivity to the outside world happens through a block called RFOE which is backed by ethernet I/O block called CGX or RPM (depending on the chip version). RFOE stands for Radio Frequency Over Ethernet and provides support for IEEE 1904.3 (RoE) standard.
1.1. Features
The BPHY CGX/RPM implements following features in the rawdev API:
Access to BPHY CGX/RPM via a set of predefined messages
Access to BPHY memory
Custom interrupt handlers
1.2. Device Setup
The BPHY CGX/RPM devices will need to be bound to a user-space IO driver for
use. The script dpdk-devbind.py
script included with DPDK can be used to
view the state of the devices and to bind them to a suitable DPDK-supported
kernel driver. When querying the status of the devices, they will appear under
the category of “Misc (rawdev) devices”, i.e. the command
dpdk-devbind.py --status-dev misc
can be used to see the state of those
devices alone.
Before performing actual data transfer one needs to first retrieve number of
available queues with rte_rawdev_queue_count()
and capacity of each
using rte_rawdev_queue_conf_get()
.
To perform data transfer use standard rte_rawdev_enqueue_buffers()
and
rte_rawdev_dequeue_buffers()
APIs. Not all messages produce sensible
responses hence dequeuing is not always necessary.
1.3. BPHY CGX/RPM PMD
BPHY CGX/RPM PMD accepts struct cnxk_bphy_cgx_msg
messages which differ by type and payload.
Message types along with description are listed below. As for the usage examples please refer to
cnxk_bphy_cgx_dev_selftest()
.
1.3.1. Get link information
Message is used to get information about link state.
Message must have type set to CNXK_BPHY_CGX_MSG_TYPE_GET_LINKINFO
. In response one will
get message containing payload i.e struct cnxk_bphy_cgx_msg_link_info
filled with information
about current link state.
1.3.2. Change internal loopback state
Message is used to enable or disable internal loopback.
Message must have type set to CNXK_BPHY_CGX_MSG_TYPE_INTLBK_ENABLE
or
CNXK_BPHY_CGX_MSG_TYPE_INTLBK_DISABLE
. Former will activate internal loopback while the latter
will do the opposite.
1.3.3. Change PTP RX state
Message is used to enable or disable PTP mode.
Message must have type set to CNXK_BPHY_CGX_MSG_TYPE_PTP_RX_ENABLE
or
CNXK_BPHY_CGX_MSG_TYPE_PTP_RX_DISABLE
. Former will enable PTP while the latter will do the
opposite.
1.3.4. Set link mode
Message is used to change link mode.
Message must have type set to CNXK_BPHY_CGX_MSG_TYPE_SET_LINK_MODE
. Prior to sending actual
message payload i.e struct cnxk_bphy_cgx_msg_link_mode
needs to be filled with relevant
information.
1.3.5. Change link state
Message is used to set link up or down.
Message must have type set to CNXK_BPHY_CGX_MSG_TYPE_SET_LINK_STATE
. Prior to sending actual
message payload i.e struct cnxk_bphy_cgx_msg_set_link_state
needs to be filled with relevant
information.
1.3.6. Start or stop RX/TX
Message is used to start or stop accepting traffic.
Message must have type set to CNXK_BPHY_CGX_MSG_TYPE_START_RXTX
or
CNXK_BPHY_CGX_MSG_TYPE_STOP_RXTX
. Former will enable traffic while the latter will
do the opposite.
1.4. BPHY PMD
BPHY PMD accepts struct cnxk_bphy_irq_msg
messages which differ by type and payload.
Message types along with description are listed below. For some usage examples please refer to
bphy_rawdev_selftest()
.
1.4.1. Initialize or finalize interrupt handling
Message is used to setup low level interrupt handling.
Message must have type set to CNXK_BPHY_IRQ_MSG_TYPE_INIT
or CNXK_BPHY_IRQ_MSG_TYPE_FINI
.
The former will setup low level interrupt handling while the latter will tear everything down. There
are also two convenience functions namely rte_pmd_bphy_intr_init()
and
rte_pmd_bphy_intr_fini()
that take care of all details.
1.4.2. Register or remove interrupt handler
Message is used setup custom interrupt handler.
Message must have type set to CNXK_BPHY_IRQ_MSG_TYPE_REGISTER
or
CNXK_BPHY_IRQ_MSG_TYPE_UNREGISTER
. The former will register an interrupt handler while the
latter will remove it. Prior sending actual message payload i.e struct cnxk_bphy_irq_info
needs
to be filled with relevant information. There are also two convenience functions namely
rte_pmd_bphy_intr_register()
and rte_pmd_bphy_intr_unregister()
that take care of all
details.
1.4.3. Get device memory
Message is used to read device MMIO address.
Message must have type set to CNXK_BPHY_IRQ_MSG_TYPE_MEM_GET
. There’s a convenience function
rte_pmd_bphy_intr_mem_get()
available that takes care of retrieving that address.
1.5. Self test
On EAL initialization BPHY and BPHY CGX/RPM devices will be probed and populated into
the raw devices. The rawdev ID of the device can be obtained using invocation
of rte_rawdev_get_dev_id("NAME:x")
from the test application, where:
NAME is the desired subsystem: use “BPHY” for regular, and “BPHY_CGX” for RFOE module.
x is the device’s bus id specified in “bus:device.func” (BDF) format. BDF follows convention used by lspci i.e bus, device and func are specified using respectively two, two and one hex digit(s).
Use this identifier for further rawdev function calls.
Selftest rawdev API can be used to verify the BPHY and BPHY CGX/RPM functionality.