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1 | Intel Omni-Path (OPA) Virtual Network Interface Controller (VNIC) feature |
2 | supports Ethernet functionality over Omni-Path fabric by encapsulating | |
3 | the Ethernet packets between HFI nodes. | |
4 | ||
5 | Architecture | |
6 | ============= | |
7 | The patterns of exchanges of Omni-Path encapsulated Ethernet packets | |
8 | involves one or more virtual Ethernet switches overlaid on the Omni-Path | |
9 | fabric topology. A subset of HFI nodes on the Omni-Path fabric are | |
10 | permitted to exchange encapsulated Ethernet packets across a particular | |
11 | virtual Ethernet switch. The virtual Ethernet switches are logical | |
12 | abstractions achieved by configuring the HFI nodes on the fabric for | |
13 | header generation and processing. In the simplest configuration all HFI | |
14 | nodes across the fabric exchange encapsulated Ethernet packets over a | |
15 | single virtual Ethernet switch. A virtual Ethernet switch, is effectively | |
16 | an independent Ethernet network. The configuration is performed by an | |
17 | Ethernet Manager (EM) which is part of the trusted Fabric Manager (FM) | |
18 | application. HFI nodes can have multiple VNICs each connected to a | |
19 | different virtual Ethernet switch. The below diagram presents a case | |
20 | of two virtual Ethernet switches with two HFI nodes. | |
21 | ||
22 | +-------------------+ | |
23 | | Subnet/ | | |
24 | | Ethernet | | |
25 | | Manager | | |
26 | +-------------------+ | |
27 | / / | |
28 | / / | |
29 | / / | |
30 | / / | |
31 | +-----------------------------+ +------------------------------+ | |
32 | | Virtual Ethernet Switch | | Virtual Ethernet Switch | | |
33 | | +---------+ +---------+ | | +---------+ +---------+ | | |
34 | | | VPORT | | VPORT | | | | VPORT | | VPORT | | | |
35 | +--+---------+----+---------+-+ +-+---------+----+---------+---+ | |
36 | | \ / | | |
37 | | \ / | | |
38 | | \/ | | |
39 | | / \ | | |
40 | | / \ | | |
41 | +-----------+------------+ +-----------+------------+ | |
42 | | VNIC | VNIC | | VNIC | VNIC | | |
43 | +-----------+------------+ +-----------+------------+ | |
44 | | HFI | | HFI | | |
45 | +------------------------+ +------------------------+ | |
46 | ||
47 | ||
48 | The Omni-Path encapsulated Ethernet packet format is as described below. | |
49 | ||
50 | Bits Field | |
51 | ------------------------------------ | |
52 | Quad Word 0: | |
53 | 0-19 SLID (lower 20 bits) | |
54 | 20-30 Length (in Quad Words) | |
55 | 31 BECN bit | |
56 | 32-51 DLID (lower 20 bits) | |
57 | 52-56 SC (Service Class) | |
58 | 57-59 RC (Routing Control) | |
59 | 60 FECN bit | |
60 | 61-62 L2 (=10, 16B format) | |
61 | 63 LT (=1, Link Transfer Head Flit) | |
62 | ||
63 | Quad Word 1: | |
64 | 0-7 L4 type (=0x78 ETHERNET) | |
65 | 8-11 SLID[23:20] | |
66 | 12-15 DLID[23:20] | |
67 | 16-31 PKEY | |
68 | 32-47 Entropy | |
69 | 48-63 Reserved | |
70 | ||
71 | Quad Word 2: | |
72 | 0-15 Reserved | |
73 | 16-31 L4 header | |
74 | 32-63 Ethernet Packet | |
75 | ||
76 | Quad Words 3 to N-1: | |
77 | 0-63 Ethernet packet (pad extended) | |
78 | ||
79 | Quad Word N (last): | |
80 | 0-23 Ethernet packet (pad extended) | |
81 | 24-55 ICRC | |
82 | 56-61 Tail | |
83 | 62-63 LT (=01, Link Transfer Tail Flit) | |
84 | ||
85 | Ethernet packet is padded on the transmit side to ensure that the VNIC OPA | |
86 | packet is quad word aligned. The 'Tail' field contains the number of bytes | |
87 | padded. On the receive side the 'Tail' field is read and the padding is | |
88 | removed (along with ICRC, Tail and OPA header) before passing packet up | |
89 | the network stack. | |
90 | ||
91 | The L4 header field contains the virtual Ethernet switch id the VNIC port | |
92 | belongs to. On the receive side, this field is used to de-multiplex the | |
93 | received VNIC packets to different VNIC ports. | |
94 | ||
95 | Driver Design | |
96 | ============== | |
97 | Intel OPA VNIC software design is presented in the below diagram. | |
98 | OPA VNIC functionality has a HW dependent component and a HW | |
99 | independent component. | |
100 | ||
101 | The support has been added for IB device to allocate and free the RDMA | |
102 | netdev devices. The RDMA netdev supports interfacing with the network | |
103 | stack thus creating standard network interfaces. OPA_VNIC is an RDMA | |
104 | netdev device type. | |
105 | ||
106 | The HW dependent VNIC functionality is part of the HFI1 driver. It | |
107 | implements the verbs to allocate and free the OPA_VNIC RDMA netdev. | |
108 | It involves HW resource allocation/management for VNIC functionality. | |
109 | It interfaces with the network stack and implements the required | |
110 | net_device_ops functions. It expects Omni-Path encapsulated Ethernet | |
111 | packets in the transmit path and provides HW access to them. It strips | |
112 | the Omni-Path header from the received packets before passing them up | |
113 | the network stack. It also implements the RDMA netdev control operations. | |
114 | ||
115 | The OPA VNIC module implements the HW independent VNIC functionality. | |
116 | It consists of two parts. The VNIC Ethernet Management Agent (VEMA) | |
117 | registers itself with IB core as an IB client and interfaces with the | |
118 | IB MAD stack. It exchanges the management information with the Ethernet | |
119 | Manager (EM) and the VNIC netdev. The VNIC netdev part allocates and frees | |
120 | the OPA_VNIC RDMA netdev devices. It overrides the net_device_ops functions | |
121 | set by HW dependent VNIC driver where required to accommodate any control | |
122 | operation. It also handles the encapsulation of Ethernet packets with an | |
123 | Omni-Path header in the transmit path. For each VNIC interface, the | |
124 | information required for encapsulation is configured by the EM via VEMA MAD | |
125 | interface. It also passes any control information to the HW dependent driver | |
126 | by invoking the RDMA netdev control operations. | |
127 | ||
128 | +-------------------+ +----------------------+ | |
129 | | | | Linux | | |
130 | | IB MAD | | Network | | |
131 | | | | Stack | | |
132 | +-------------------+ +----------------------+ | |
133 | | | | | |
134 | | | | | |
135 | +----------------------------+ | | |
136 | | | | | |
137 | | OPA VNIC Module | | | |
138 | | (OPA VNIC RDMA Netdev | | | |
139 | | & EMA functions) | | | |
140 | | | | | |
141 | +----------------------------+ | | |
142 | | | | |
143 | | | | |
144 | +------------------+ | | |
145 | | IB core | | | |
146 | +------------------+ | | |
147 | | | | |
148 | | | | |
149 | +--------------------------------------------+ | |
150 | | | | |
151 | | HFI1 Driver with VNIC support | | |
152 | | | | |
153 | +--------------------------------------------+ |