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2     Copyright(c) 2018 Intel Corporation.
3
4 IFPGA Rawdev Driver
5 ======================
6
7 FPGA is used more and more widely in Cloud and NFV, one primary reason is
8 that FPGA not only provides ASIC performance but also it's more flexible
9 than ASIC.
10
11 FPGA uses Partial Reconfigure (PR) Parts of Bit Stream to achieve its
12 flexibility. That means one FPGA Device Bit Stream is divided into many Parts
13 of Bit Stream(each Part of Bit Stream is defined as AFU-Accelerated Function
14 Unit), and each AFU is a hardware acceleration unit which can be dynamically
15 reloaded respectively.
16
17 By PR (Partial Reconfiguration) AFUs, one FPGA resources can be time-shared by
18 different users. FPGA hot upgrade and fault tolerance can be provided easily.
19
20 The SW IFPGA Rawdev Driver (**ifpga_rawdev**) provides a Rawdev driver
21 that utilizes Intel FPGA Software Stack OPAE(Open Programmable Acceleration
22 Engine) for FPGA management.
23
24 Implementation details
25 ----------------------
26
27 Each instance of IFPGA Rawdev Driver is probed by Intel FpgaDev. In coordination
28 with OPAE share code IFPGA Rawdev Driver provides common FPGA management ops
29 for FPGA operation, OPAE provides all following operations:
30 - FPGA PR (Partial Reconfiguration) management
31 - FPGA AFUs Identifying
32 - FPGA Thermal Management
33 - FPGA Power Management
34 - FPGA Performance reporting
35 - FPGA Remote Debug
36
37 All configuration parameters are taken by vdev_ifpga_cfg driver. Besides
38 configuration, vdev_ifpga_cfg driver also hot plugs in IFPGA Bus.
39
40 All of the AFUs of one FPGA may share same PCI BDF and AFUs scan depend on
41 IFPGA Rawdev Driver so IFPGA Bus takes AFU device scan and AFU drivers probe.
42 All AFU device driver bind to AFU device by its UUID (Universally Unique
43 Identifier).
44
45 To avoid unnecessary code duplication and ensure maximum performance,
46 handling of AFU devices is left to different PMDs; all the design as
47 summarized by the following block diagram::
48
49      +---------------------------------------------------------------+
50      |                       Application(s)                          |
51      +----------------------------.----------------------------------+
52                                   |
53                                   |
54      +----------------------------'----------------------------------+
55      |                    DPDK Framework (APIs)                      |
56      +----------|------------|--------.---------------------|--------+
57                /              \                             |
58               /                \                            |
59      +-------'-------+  +-------'-------+          +--------'--------+
60      |    Eth PMD    |  |   Crypto PMD  |          |                 |
61      +-------.-------+  +-------.-------+          |                 |
62              |                  |                  |                 |
63              |                  |                  |                 |
64      +-------'-------+  +-------'-------+          |      IFPGA      |
65      |  Eth AFU Dev  |  |Crypto AFU Dev |          |  Rawdev Driver  |
66      +-------.-------+  +-------.-------+          |(OPAE Share Code)|
67              |                  |                  |                 |
68              |                  |          Rawdev  |                 |
69      +-------'------------------'-------+    Ops   |                 |
70      |              IFPGA Bus           | -------->|                 |
71      +-----------------.----------------+          +--------.--------+
72                        |                                    |
73          Hot-plugin -->|                                    |
74                        |                                    |
75      +-----------------'------------------+        +--------'--------+
76      |        vdev_ifpga_cfg driver       |        |  Intel FpgaDev  |
77      +------------------------------------+        +-----------------+
78
79
80 Run-time parameters
81 -------------------
82
83 This driver is invoked automatically in systems added with Intel FPGA,
84 but PR and IFPGA Bus scan is triggered by command line using
85 ``--vdev 'ifpga_rawdev_cfg`` EAL option.
86
87 The following device parameters are supported:
88
89 - ``ifpga`` [string]
90
91   Provide a specific Intel FPGA device PCI BDF. Can be provided multiple
92   times for additional instances.
93
94 - ``port`` [int]
95
96   Each FPGA can provide many channels to PR AFU by software, each channels
97   is identified by this parameter.
98
99 - ``afu_bts`` [string]
100
101   If null, the AFU Bit Stream has been PR in FPGA, if not forces PR and
102   identifies AFU Bit Stream file.