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author | gibbs <gibbs@FreeBSD.org> | 1998-10-16 15:06:26 +0000 |
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committer | gibbs <gibbs@FreeBSD.org> | 1998-10-16 15:06:26 +0000 |
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Update to include all supported chips.
Add a table comparing the features of all aic7xxx chips.
Clean up the discussion of SCB paging.
Reviewed by: Kenneth Merry <ken@FreeBSD.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'share')
-rw-r--r-- | share/man/man4/ahc.4 | 200 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | share/man/man4/man4.i386/ahc.4 | 200 |
2 files changed, 264 insertions, 136 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man4/ahc.4 b/share/man/man4/ahc.4 index b786034..5ff9df8 100644 --- a/share/man/man4/ahc.4 +++ b/share/man/man4/ahc.4 @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ .\" -.\" Copyright (c) 1995, 1996, 1997 +.\" Copyright (c) 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998 .\" Justin T. Gibbs. All rights reserved. .\" .\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without @@ -24,9 +24,9 @@ .\" (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF .\" THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. .\" -.\" $Id: ahc.4,v 1.11 1998/06/08 06:11:58 jkoshy Exp $ +.\" $Id: ahc.4,v 1.12 1998/06/13 19:06:49 steve Exp $ .\" -.Dd April 20, 1996 +.Dd October 15, 1998 .Dt AHC 4 i386 .Os FreeBSD .Sh NAME @@ -41,12 +41,6 @@ For one or more PCI cards: .Cd controller pci0 .Cd controller ahc0 .Pp -To enable SCB paging: -.Cd options AHC_SCBPAGING_ENABLE -.Pp -To enable tagged queueing: -.Cd options AHC_TAGENABLE -.Pp To allow PCI adapters to use memory mapped I/O if enabled: .Cd options AHC_ALLOW_MEMIO .Pp @@ -55,59 +49,49 @@ For one or more SCSI busses: .Sh DESCRIPTION This driver provides access to the .Tn SCSI -bus(es) connected to Adaptec -274x, 284x, 2940, 3940, or controllers based on the +bus(es) connected to Adaptec .Tn AIC7770, .Tn AIC7850, .Tn AIC7860, .Tn AIC7870, +.Tn AIC7880, +.Tn AIC7890, +.Tn AIC7891, +.Tn AIC7895, +.Tn AIC7896, or -.Tn AIC7880 +.Tn AIC7897 host adapter chips. -Features include support for twin and wide busses, -ultra -.Tn SCSI, -two active commands at a time per non-tagged queueing target, -tagged queuing, -and SCB paging. +These chips are found on many motherboards as well as the following +Adaptec SCSI controller cards: +.Tn 274X(W), +.Tn 274X(T), +.Tn 284X, +.Tn 2920C, +.Tn 2940, +.Tn 2940U, +.Tn 2940AU, +.Tn 2940UW, +.Tn 2940UW Dual, +.Tn 2940U2W, +.Tn 2940U2B, +.Tn 2950U2W, +.Tn 2950U2B, +.Tn 3940, +.Tn 3940U, +.Tn 3940AU, +.Tn 3940UW, +.Tn 3940AUW, +.Tn 3940U2W, +and +.Tn 3985. .Pp -The number of concurrent transactions allowed is chip dependent -and ranges from 3 to 16. -On PCI adapters, -this number can be increased with the SCB paging option. -SCB paging implements an algorithm to 'page-out' transactions -that are in the disconnected state so that the freed space in -the controller's memory can be used to start additional transactions. -On the aic7880 and aic7870, -this increases the maximum number of outstanding transactions from 16 to 255. -On the aic7850 and aic7860 controllers, this maximum rises from 3 to 8. -During the hardware probe, -a diagnostic showing the ratio of hardware supported 'slots' to number -of transactions is printed. -SCB paging is enabled with the -.Dq Dv AHC_SCBPAGING_ENABLE -configuration option. -This option will likely be removed and become the default behavior for -adapters that support it, -in the near future. -.Pp -Tagged queueing is enabled with the -.Dq Dv AHC_TAGENABLE -configuration option. -Tagged queueing allows multiple transactions to be queued at the device -level instead of the host level, -allowing the device to re-order I/O to minimize seeks, -seek distance, -and to increase throughput. -Tagged queueing can have a significant impact on performance for seek -bound applications and should be enabled for most configurations. -Unfortunately, some devices that claim to support tagged queueing fail -miserably when it is used. -The only reason tagged queueing remains as a controller option is as a -stop gap measure until a mechanism to detect these broken devices and to -control this feature on a per device basis is in place. +Driver features include support for twin and wide busses, +fast, ultra and ultra2 synchronous transfers depending on controller type, +tagged queueing, +and SCB paging. .Pp -Memory mapped I/O can be enabled with the +Memory mapped I/O can be enabled for PCI devices with the .Dq Dv AHC_ALLOW_MEMIO configuration option. Memory mapped I/O is more efficient than the alternative, programmed I/O. @@ -139,7 +123,12 @@ must be enabled for adaptors. This includes synchronous/asynchronous transfers, maximum synchronous negotiation rate, disconnection, -and the host adapter's SCSI ID. +the host adapter's SCSI ID, +and, +in the case of +.Tn EISA +Twin Channel controllers, +the primary channel selection. .Pp Note that I/O addresses are determined automatically by the probe routines, but care should be taken when using a 284x @@ -151,35 +140,110 @@ system. Ensure that the jumpers setting the I/O area for the 284x match the slot into which the card is inserted to prevent conflicts with other .Tn EISA cards. +.Pp +Performance and feature sets vary throughout the aic7xxx product line. +The following table provides a comparison of the different chips supported +by the +.Nm +driver. Note that wide and twin channel features, although always supported +by a particular chip, may be disabled in a particular motherboard or card +design. +.Pp +.Bd -filled -offset indent +.Bl -column "aic7770 " "10 " "EISA/VL " "10MHz " "16bit " "SCBs " Features +.Em "Chip MIPS Bus MaxSync MaxWidth SCBs Features" +aic7770 10 EISA/VL 10MHz 16Bit 4 1 +aic7850 10 PCI/32 10MHz 8Bit 3 +aic7860 10 PCI/32 20MHz 8Bit 3 +aic7870 10 PCI/32 10MHz 16Bit 16 +aic7880 10 PCI/32 20MHz 16Bit 16 +aic7890 20 PCI/32 40MHz 16Bit 16 3 4 5 6 7 +aic7891 20 PCI/64 40MHz 16Bit 16 3 4 5 6 7 +aic7895 15 PCI/32 20MHz 16Bit 16 2 3 4 5 +aic7896 20 PCI/32 40MHz 16Bit 16 2 3 4 5 6 7 +aic7897 20 PCI/64 40MHz 16Bit 16 2 3 4 5 6 7 +.El +.Pp +.Bl -enum -compact +.It +Multiplexed Twin Channel Device - One controller servicing two busses. +.It +Multi-function Twin Channel Device - Two controllers on one chip. +.It +Command Channel Secondary DMA Engine - Allows scatter gather list and +SCB prefetch. +.It +64 Byte SCB Support - SCSI CDB is embedded in the SCB to eliminate an extra DMA. +.It +Block Move Instruction Support - Doubles the speed of certain sequencer +operations. +.It +.Sq Bayonet +style Scatter Gather Engine - Improves S/G prefetch performance. +.It +Queueing Registers - Allows queueing of new transactions without pausing the +sequencer. +.El +.Ed +.Pp + +.Sh SCSI CONTROL BLOCKS (SCBs) +Every transaction sent to a device on the SCSI bus is assigned a +.Sq SCSI Control Block +(SCB). The SCB contains all of the information required by the +controller to process a transaction. The chip feature table lists +the number of SCBs that can be stored in on chip memory. All chips +with model numbers greater than or equal to 7870 allow for the on chip +SCB space to be augmented with external SRAM up to a maximum of 255 SCBs. +Very few Adaptec controller have external SRAM. + +If external SRAM is not available, SCBs are a limited resource and +using them in a straight forward manner would only allow us to +keep as many transactions as there are SCBs outstanding at a time. +This would not allow enough concurrency to fully utilize the SCSI +bus and it's devices. The solution to this problem is +.Em SCB Paging , +a concept similar to memory paging. SCB paging takes advantage of +the fact that devices usually disconnect from the SCSI bus for long +periods of time without talking to the controller. The SCBs +for disconnected transactions are only of use to the controller +when the transfer is resumed. When the host queues another transaction +for the controller to execute, the controller firmware will use a +free SCB if one is available. Otherwise, the state of the most recently +disconnected (and therefor most likely to stay disconnected) SCB is +saved, via dma, to host memory, and the local SCB reused to start +the new transaction. This allows the controller to queue up to +255 transactions regardless of the amount of SCB space. Since the +local SCB space serves as a cache for disconnected transactions, the +more SCB space available, the less host bus traffic consumed saving +and restoring SCB data. .Sh BUGS Some Quantum drives (at least the Empire 2100 and 1080s) will not run on an .Tn AIC7870 Rev B in synchronous mode at 10MHz. Controllers with this problem have a -42 MHz clock crystal on them and run slightly above 10MHz. This causes the -drive much confusion. Setting a maximum synchronous negotiation rate of 8MHz -in the +42 MHz clock crystal on them and run slightly above 10MHz. This confuses +the drive and hangs the bus. Setting a maximum synchronous negotiation rate +of 8MHz in the .Tn SCSI-Select utility -will allow normal function. +will allow normal operation. .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr aha 4 , .Xr ahb 4 , .Xr cd 4 , .Xr scsi 4 , -.Xr sd 4 , -.Xr st 4 +.Xr da 4 , +.Xr sa 4 .Sh AUTHORS The .Nm -driver was written by -.An Justin Gibbs . -The +driver, the .Tn AIC7xxx -sequencer-code assembler was -written by -.An John Aycock . +sequencer-code assember, +and the firmware running on the aic7xxx chips was written by +.An Justin T. Gibbs . .Sh HISTORY The .Nm driver appeared in -.Fx 2.1 . +.Fx 2.0 . diff --git a/share/man/man4/man4.i386/ahc.4 b/share/man/man4/man4.i386/ahc.4 index b786034..5ff9df8 100644 --- a/share/man/man4/man4.i386/ahc.4 +++ b/share/man/man4/man4.i386/ahc.4 @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ .\" -.\" Copyright (c) 1995, 1996, 1997 +.\" Copyright (c) 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998 .\" Justin T. Gibbs. All rights reserved. .\" .\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without @@ -24,9 +24,9 @@ .\" (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF .\" THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. .\" -.\" $Id: ahc.4,v 1.11 1998/06/08 06:11:58 jkoshy Exp $ +.\" $Id: ahc.4,v 1.12 1998/06/13 19:06:49 steve Exp $ .\" -.Dd April 20, 1996 +.Dd October 15, 1998 .Dt AHC 4 i386 .Os FreeBSD .Sh NAME @@ -41,12 +41,6 @@ For one or more PCI cards: .Cd controller pci0 .Cd controller ahc0 .Pp -To enable SCB paging: -.Cd options AHC_SCBPAGING_ENABLE -.Pp -To enable tagged queueing: -.Cd options AHC_TAGENABLE -.Pp To allow PCI adapters to use memory mapped I/O if enabled: .Cd options AHC_ALLOW_MEMIO .Pp @@ -55,59 +49,49 @@ For one or more SCSI busses: .Sh DESCRIPTION This driver provides access to the .Tn SCSI -bus(es) connected to Adaptec -274x, 284x, 2940, 3940, or controllers based on the +bus(es) connected to Adaptec .Tn AIC7770, .Tn AIC7850, .Tn AIC7860, .Tn AIC7870, +.Tn AIC7880, +.Tn AIC7890, +.Tn AIC7891, +.Tn AIC7895, +.Tn AIC7896, or -.Tn AIC7880 +.Tn AIC7897 host adapter chips. -Features include support for twin and wide busses, -ultra -.Tn SCSI, -two active commands at a time per non-tagged queueing target, -tagged queuing, -and SCB paging. +These chips are found on many motherboards as well as the following +Adaptec SCSI controller cards: +.Tn 274X(W), +.Tn 274X(T), +.Tn 284X, +.Tn 2920C, +.Tn 2940, +.Tn 2940U, +.Tn 2940AU, +.Tn 2940UW, +.Tn 2940UW Dual, +.Tn 2940U2W, +.Tn 2940U2B, +.Tn 2950U2W, +.Tn 2950U2B, +.Tn 3940, +.Tn 3940U, +.Tn 3940AU, +.Tn 3940UW, +.Tn 3940AUW, +.Tn 3940U2W, +and +.Tn 3985. .Pp -The number of concurrent transactions allowed is chip dependent -and ranges from 3 to 16. -On PCI adapters, -this number can be increased with the SCB paging option. -SCB paging implements an algorithm to 'page-out' transactions -that are in the disconnected state so that the freed space in -the controller's memory can be used to start additional transactions. -On the aic7880 and aic7870, -this increases the maximum number of outstanding transactions from 16 to 255. -On the aic7850 and aic7860 controllers, this maximum rises from 3 to 8. -During the hardware probe, -a diagnostic showing the ratio of hardware supported 'slots' to number -of transactions is printed. -SCB paging is enabled with the -.Dq Dv AHC_SCBPAGING_ENABLE -configuration option. -This option will likely be removed and become the default behavior for -adapters that support it, -in the near future. -.Pp -Tagged queueing is enabled with the -.Dq Dv AHC_TAGENABLE -configuration option. -Tagged queueing allows multiple transactions to be queued at the device -level instead of the host level, -allowing the device to re-order I/O to minimize seeks, -seek distance, -and to increase throughput. -Tagged queueing can have a significant impact on performance for seek -bound applications and should be enabled for most configurations. -Unfortunately, some devices that claim to support tagged queueing fail -miserably when it is used. -The only reason tagged queueing remains as a controller option is as a -stop gap measure until a mechanism to detect these broken devices and to -control this feature on a per device basis is in place. +Driver features include support for twin and wide busses, +fast, ultra and ultra2 synchronous transfers depending on controller type, +tagged queueing, +and SCB paging. .Pp -Memory mapped I/O can be enabled with the +Memory mapped I/O can be enabled for PCI devices with the .Dq Dv AHC_ALLOW_MEMIO configuration option. Memory mapped I/O is more efficient than the alternative, programmed I/O. @@ -139,7 +123,12 @@ must be enabled for adaptors. This includes synchronous/asynchronous transfers, maximum synchronous negotiation rate, disconnection, -and the host adapter's SCSI ID. +the host adapter's SCSI ID, +and, +in the case of +.Tn EISA +Twin Channel controllers, +the primary channel selection. .Pp Note that I/O addresses are determined automatically by the probe routines, but care should be taken when using a 284x @@ -151,35 +140,110 @@ system. Ensure that the jumpers setting the I/O area for the 284x match the slot into which the card is inserted to prevent conflicts with other .Tn EISA cards. +.Pp +Performance and feature sets vary throughout the aic7xxx product line. +The following table provides a comparison of the different chips supported +by the +.Nm +driver. Note that wide and twin channel features, although always supported +by a particular chip, may be disabled in a particular motherboard or card +design. +.Pp +.Bd -filled -offset indent +.Bl -column "aic7770 " "10 " "EISA/VL " "10MHz " "16bit " "SCBs " Features +.Em "Chip MIPS Bus MaxSync MaxWidth SCBs Features" +aic7770 10 EISA/VL 10MHz 16Bit 4 1 +aic7850 10 PCI/32 10MHz 8Bit 3 +aic7860 10 PCI/32 20MHz 8Bit 3 +aic7870 10 PCI/32 10MHz 16Bit 16 +aic7880 10 PCI/32 20MHz 16Bit 16 +aic7890 20 PCI/32 40MHz 16Bit 16 3 4 5 6 7 +aic7891 20 PCI/64 40MHz 16Bit 16 3 4 5 6 7 +aic7895 15 PCI/32 20MHz 16Bit 16 2 3 4 5 +aic7896 20 PCI/32 40MHz 16Bit 16 2 3 4 5 6 7 +aic7897 20 PCI/64 40MHz 16Bit 16 2 3 4 5 6 7 +.El +.Pp +.Bl -enum -compact +.It +Multiplexed Twin Channel Device - One controller servicing two busses. +.It +Multi-function Twin Channel Device - Two controllers on one chip. +.It +Command Channel Secondary DMA Engine - Allows scatter gather list and +SCB prefetch. +.It +64 Byte SCB Support - SCSI CDB is embedded in the SCB to eliminate an extra DMA. +.It +Block Move Instruction Support - Doubles the speed of certain sequencer +operations. +.It +.Sq Bayonet +style Scatter Gather Engine - Improves S/G prefetch performance. +.It +Queueing Registers - Allows queueing of new transactions without pausing the +sequencer. +.El +.Ed +.Pp + +.Sh SCSI CONTROL BLOCKS (SCBs) +Every transaction sent to a device on the SCSI bus is assigned a +.Sq SCSI Control Block +(SCB). The SCB contains all of the information required by the +controller to process a transaction. The chip feature table lists +the number of SCBs that can be stored in on chip memory. All chips +with model numbers greater than or equal to 7870 allow for the on chip +SCB space to be augmented with external SRAM up to a maximum of 255 SCBs. +Very few Adaptec controller have external SRAM. + +If external SRAM is not available, SCBs are a limited resource and +using them in a straight forward manner would only allow us to +keep as many transactions as there are SCBs outstanding at a time. +This would not allow enough concurrency to fully utilize the SCSI +bus and it's devices. The solution to this problem is +.Em SCB Paging , +a concept similar to memory paging. SCB paging takes advantage of +the fact that devices usually disconnect from the SCSI bus for long +periods of time without talking to the controller. The SCBs +for disconnected transactions are only of use to the controller +when the transfer is resumed. When the host queues another transaction +for the controller to execute, the controller firmware will use a +free SCB if one is available. Otherwise, the state of the most recently +disconnected (and therefor most likely to stay disconnected) SCB is +saved, via dma, to host memory, and the local SCB reused to start +the new transaction. This allows the controller to queue up to +255 transactions regardless of the amount of SCB space. Since the +local SCB space serves as a cache for disconnected transactions, the +more SCB space available, the less host bus traffic consumed saving +and restoring SCB data. .Sh BUGS Some Quantum drives (at least the Empire 2100 and 1080s) will not run on an .Tn AIC7870 Rev B in synchronous mode at 10MHz. Controllers with this problem have a -42 MHz clock crystal on them and run slightly above 10MHz. This causes the -drive much confusion. Setting a maximum synchronous negotiation rate of 8MHz -in the +42 MHz clock crystal on them and run slightly above 10MHz. This confuses +the drive and hangs the bus. Setting a maximum synchronous negotiation rate +of 8MHz in the .Tn SCSI-Select utility -will allow normal function. +will allow normal operation. .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr aha 4 , .Xr ahb 4 , .Xr cd 4 , .Xr scsi 4 , -.Xr sd 4 , -.Xr st 4 +.Xr da 4 , +.Xr sa 4 .Sh AUTHORS The .Nm -driver was written by -.An Justin Gibbs . -The +driver, the .Tn AIC7xxx -sequencer-code assembler was -written by -.An John Aycock . +sequencer-code assember, +and the firmware running on the aic7xxx chips was written by +.An Justin T. Gibbs . .Sh HISTORY The .Nm driver appeared in -.Fx 2.1 . +.Fx 2.0 . |