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27.Dd August 24, 2015
28.Dt IOAT 4
29.Os
30.Sh NAME
31.Nm I/OAT
32.Nd Intel I/O Acceleration Technology
33.Sh SYNOPSIS
34.Cd "device ioat"
35In
36.Xr loader.conf 5 :
37.Pp
38.Cd hw.ioat.force_legacy_interrupts=0
39.Pp
40In
41.Xr loader.conf 5 or
42.Xr sysctl.conf 5 :
43.Pp
44.Cd hw.ioat.enable_ioat_test=0
45.Cd hw.ioat.debug_level=0
46(only critical errors; maximum of 3)
47.Pp
48.Ft typedef void
49.Fn (*bus_dmaengine_callback_t) "void *arg"
50.Pp
51.Ft bus_dmaengine_t
52.Fn ioat_get_dmaengine "uint32_t channel_index"
53.Ft void
54.Fn ioat_acquire "bus_dmaengine_t dmaengine"
55.Ft void
56.Fn ioat_release "bus_dmaengine_t dmaengine"
57.Ft struct bus_dmadesc *
58.Fo ioat_copy
59.Fa "bus_dmaengine_t dmaengine"
60.Fa "bus_addr_t dst"
61.Fa "bus_addr_t src"
62.Fa "bus_size_t len"
63.Fa "bus_dmaengine_callback_t callback_fn"
64.Fa "void *callback_arg"
65.Fa "uint32_t flags"
66.Fc
67.Ft struct bus_dmadesc *
68.Fo ioat_null
69.Fa "bus_dmaengine_t dmaengine"
70.Fa "bus_dmaengine_callback_t callback_fn"
71.Fa "void *callback_arg"
72.Fa "uint32_t flags"
73.Fc
74.Sh DESCRIPTION
75The
76.Nm
77driver provides a kernel API to a variety of DMA engines on some Intel server
78platforms.
79.Pp
80There is a number of DMA channels per CPU package.
81(Typically 4 or 8.)
82Each may be used independently.
83Operations on a single channel proceed sequentially.
84.Pp
85Copy operations may be used to offload memory copies to the DMA engines.
86.Pp
87Null operations do nothing, but may be used to test the interrupt and callback
88mechanism.
89.Pp
90All operations can optionally trigger an interrupt at completion with the
91.Ar DMA_EN_INT
92flag.
93For example, a user might submit multiple operations to the same channel and
94only enable an interrupt and callback for the last operation.
95.Sh USAGE
96A typical user will lookup the DMA engine object for a given channel with
97.Fn ioat_get_dmaengine .
98When the user wants to offload a copy, they will first
99.Fn ioat_acquire
100the
101.Ar bus_dmaengine_t
102object for exclusive access to enqueue operations on that channel.
103Then, they will submit one or more operations using
104.Fn ioat_copy
105or
106.Fn ioat_null .
107Finally, they will
108.Fn ioat_release
109the
110.Ar bus_dmaengine_t
111to drop their exclusive access to the channel.
112The routine they provided for the
113.Fa callback_fn
114argument will be invoked with the provided
115.Fa callback_arg
116when the operation is complete.
117.Pp
118For an example of usage, see
119.Pa src/sys/dev/ioat/ioat_test.c .
120.Sh FILES
121.Bl -tag -compat
122.It Pa /dev/ioat_test
123test device for
124.Xr ioatcontrol 8
125.El
126.Sh SEE ALSO
127.Xr ioatcontrol 8
128.Sh HISTORY
129The
130.Nm
131driver first appeared in
132.Fx 11.0 .
133.Sh AUTHORS
134The
135.Nm
136driver was developed by
137.An \&Jim Harris Aq Mt jimharris@FreeBSD.org ,
138and
139.An \&Carl Delsey Aq Mt carl.r.delsey@intel.com .
140This manual page was written by
141.An \&Conrad Meyer Aq Mt cem@FreeBSD.org .
142.Sh CAVEATS
143Copy operation takes bus addresses as parameters, not virtual addresses.
144.Pp
145Copies larger than max transfer size (1MB) are not supported.
146Future versions will likely support this by breaking up the transfer into
147smaller sizes.
148.Sh BUGS
149The
150.Nm
151driver only supports copy and null operations at this time.
152The driver does not yet support advanced DMA modes, such as XOR, that some
153I/OAT devices support.
154