Re: [PATCH 0/5] Enable Drivers for Intel MIC X100 Coprocessors.

[Sudeep Dutt]

On Thu, 2013-08-01 at 15:45 +0800, Asias He wrote: 
> Hello Sudeep Dutt,
> 
> On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 06:46:08PM -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 08:31:31PM -0700, Sudeep Dutt wrote:
> > > An Intel MIC X100 device is a PCIe form factor add-in coprocessor
> > > card based on the Intel Many Integrated Core (MIC) architecture
> > > that runs a Linux OS. It is a PCIe endpoint in a platform and therefore
> > > implements the three required standard address spaces i.e. configuration,
> > > memory and I/O. The host OS loads a device driver as is typical for
> > > PCIe devices. The card itself runs a bootstrap after reset that
> > > transfers control to the card OS downloaded from the host driver.
> > > The card OS as shipped by Intel is a Linux kernel with modifications
> > > for the X100 devices.
> > > 
> > > Since it is a PCIe card, it does not have the ability to host hardware
> > > devices for networking, storage and console. We provide these devices
> > > on X100 coprocessors thus enabling a self-bootable equivalent environment
> > > for applications. A key benefit of our solution is that it leverages
> > > the standard virtio framework for network, disk and console devices,
> > > though in our case the virtio framework is used across a PCIe bus.
> > > 
> > > Here is a block diagram of the various components described above. The
> > > virtio backends are situated on the host rather than the card given better
> > > single threaded performance for the host compared to MIC and the ability of
> > > the host to initiate DMA's to/from the card using the MIC DMA engine.
> > > 
> > >                               |
> > >        +----------+           |             +----------+
> > >        | Card OS  |           |             | Host OS  |
> > >        +----------+           |             +----------+
> > >                               |
> > > +-------+ +--------+ +------+ | +---------+  +--------+ +--------+
> > > | Virtio| |Virtio  | |Virtio| | |Virtio   |  |Virtio  | |Virtio  |
> > > | Net   | |Console | |Block | | |Net      |  |Console | |Block   |
> > > | Driver| |Driver  | |Driver| | |backend  |  |backend | |backend |
> > > +-------+ +--------+ +------+ | +---------+  +--------+ +--------+
> > >     |         |         |     |      |            |         |
> > >     |         |         |     |Ring 3|            |         |
> > >     |         |         |     |------|------------|---------|-------
> > >     +-------------------+     |Ring 0+--------------------------+
> > >               |               |      | Virtio over PCIe IOCTLs  |
> > >               |               |      +--------------------------+
> > >       +--------------+        |                   |
> > >       |Intel MIC     |        |            +---------------+
> > >       |Card Driver   |        |            |Intel MIC      |
> > >       +--------------+        |            |Host Driver    |
> > >               |               |            +---------------+
> > >               |               |                   |
> > >      +-------------------------------------------------------------+
> > >      |                                                             |
> > >      |                    PCIe Bus                                 |
> > >      +-------------------------------------------------------------+
> 
> 
> Could you send the whole series to virtualization@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx next time?
> 

Hello Asias,

I sent all the patches including the cover letter to the same recipients
and mailing lists so I am not sure why some patches did not show up in
the virtualization mailing list. The list of recipients @ [1] seems to
suggest that I did send it :(
Thanks,
Sudeep Dutt

[1] http://www.spinics.net/lists/kernel/msg1573037.html

> 
> > That's some nice information, why isn't it in one of the patches you
> > sent, so that others can read it later on to try to figure out what is
> > going on with this codebase?
> > 
> > thanks,
> > 
> > greg k-h
> > _______________________________________________
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> > Virtualization@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization
> 



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