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authorCatherine Sullivan <csully@google.com>2019-07-01 15:57:52 -0700
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2019-07-01 19:36:35 -0700
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gve: Add basic driver framework for Compute Engine Virtual NIC
Add a driver framework for the Compute Engine Virtual NIC that will be available in the future. At this point the only functionality is loading the driver. Signed-off-by: Catherine Sullivan <csully@google.com> Signed-off-by: Sagi Shahar <sagis@google.com> Signed-off-by: Jon Olson <jonolson@google.com> Acked-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com> Reviewed-by: Luigi Rizzo <lrizzo@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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+.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+
+
+==============================================================
+Linux kernel driver for Compute Engine Virtual Ethernet (gve):
+==============================================================
+
+Supported Hardware
+===================
+The GVE driver binds to a single PCI device id used by the virtual
+Ethernet device found in some Compute Engine VMs.
+
++--------------+----------+---------+
+|Field | Value | Comments|
++==============+==========+=========+
+|Vendor ID | `0x1AE0` | Google |
++--------------+----------+---------+
+|Device ID | `0x0042` | |
++--------------+----------+---------+
+|Sub-vendor ID | `0x1AE0` | Google |
++--------------+----------+---------+
+|Sub-device ID | `0x0058` | |
++--------------+----------+---------+
+|Revision ID | `0x0` | |
++--------------+----------+---------+
+|Device Class | `0x200` | Ethernet|
++--------------+----------+---------+
+
+PCI Bars
+========
+The gVNIC PCI device exposes three 32-bit memory BARS:
+- Bar0 - Device configuration and status registers.
+- Bar1 - MSI-X vector table
+- Bar2 - IRQ, RX and TX doorbells
+
+Device Interactions
+===================
+The driver interacts with the device in the following ways:
+ - Registers
+ - A block of MMIO registers
+ - See gve_register.h for more detail
+ - Admin Queue
+ - See description below
+ - Interrupts
+ - See supported interrupts below
+
+Registers
+---------
+All registers are MMIO and big endian.
+
+The registers are used for initializing and configuring the device as well as
+querying device status in response to management interrupts.
+
+Admin Queue (AQ)
+----------------
+The Admin Queue is a PAGE_SIZE memory block, treated as an array of AQ
+commands, used by the driver to issue commands to the device and set up
+resources.The driver and the device maintain a count of how many commands
+have been submitted and executed. To issue AQ commands, the driver must do
+the following (with proper locking):
+
+1) Copy new commands into next available slots in the AQ array
+2) Increment its counter by he number of new commands
+3) Write the counter into the GVE_ADMIN_QUEUE_DOORBELL register
+4) Poll the ADMIN_QUEUE_EVENT_COUNTER register until it equals
+ the value written to the doorbell, or until a timeout.
+
+The device will update the status field in each AQ command reported as
+executed through the ADMIN_QUEUE_EVENT_COUNTER register.
+
+Interrupts
+----------
+The following interrupts are supported by the driver:
+
+Management Interrupt
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+The management interrupt is used by the device to tell the driver to
+look at the GVE_DEVICE_STATUS register.
+
+Notification Block Interrupts
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+The notification block interrupts are used to tell the driver to poll
+the queues associated with that interrupt.
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/device_drivers/index.rst b/Documentation/networking/device_drivers/index.rst
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@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ Contents:
intel/i40e
intel/iavf
intel/ice
+ google/gve
mellanox/mlx5
.. only:: subproject