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diff --git a/share/man/man4/mvs.4 b/share/man/man4/mvs.4 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..be8c3ea --- /dev/null +++ b/share/man/man4/mvs.4 @@ -0,0 +1,178 @@ +.\" Copyright (c) 2009 Alexander Motin <mav@FreeBSD.org> +.\" All rights reserved. +.\" +.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without +.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions +.\" are met: +.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. +.\" 2. 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IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE +.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL +.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS +.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) +.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT +.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY +.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF +.\" SUCH DAMAGE. +.\" +.\" $FreeBSD$ +.\" +.Dd March 3, 2013 +.Dt MVS 4 +.Os +.Sh NAME +.Nm mvs +.Nd Marvell Serial ATA Host Controller driver +.Sh SYNOPSIS +To compile this driver into the kernel, +place the following lines in your +kernel configuration file: +.Bd -ragged -offset indent +.Cd "device pci" +.Cd "device scbus" +.Cd "device mvs" +.Ed +.Pp +Alternatively, to load the driver as a +module at boot time, place the following line in +.Xr loader.conf 5 : +.Bd -literal -offset indent +mvs_load="YES" +.Ed +.Pp +The following tunables are settable from the +.Xr loader 8 : +.Bl -ohang +.It Va hint.mvs. Ns Ar X Ns Va .msi +controls Message Signaled Interrupts (MSI) usage by the specified controller. +.It Va hint.mvs. Ns Ar X Ns Va .ccc +controls Command Completion Coalescing (CCC) usage by the specified controller. +Non-zero value enables CCC and defines maximum time (in us), request can wait +for interrupt. +CCC reduces number of context switches on systems with many parallel requests, +but it can decrease disk performance on some workloads due to additional +command latency. +.It Va hint.mvs. Ns Ar X Ns Va .cccc +defines number of completed commands for CCC, which trigger interrupt without +waiting for specified coalescing timeout. +.It Va hint.mvsch. Ns Ar X Ns Va .pm_level +controls SATA interface Power Management for the specified channel, +allowing some power to be saved at the cost of additional command +latency. +Possible values: +.Pp +.Bl -tag -width 4n -offset indent -compact +.It 0 +interface Power Management is disabled (default); +.It 1 +device is allowed to initiate PM state change, host is passive; +.It 4 +driver initiates PARTIAL PM state transition 1ms after port becomes idle; +.It 5 +driver initiates SLUMBER PM state transition 125ms after port becomes idle. +.El +.Pp +Note that interface Power Management is not compatible with +device presence detection. +A manual bus reset is needed on device hot-plug. +.It Va hint.mvsch. Ns Ar X Ns Va .sata_rev +setting to nonzero value limits maximum SATA revision (speed). +Values 1, 2 and 3 are respectively 1.5, 3 and 6Gbps. +.El +.Sh DESCRIPTION +This driver provides the +.Xr CAM 4 +subsystem with native access to the +.Tn SATA +ports of several generations (Gen-I/II/IIe) of Marvell SATA controllers. +Each SATA port found is represented to CAM as a separate bus with one +target, or, if HBA supports Port Multipliers (Gen-II/IIe), 16 targets. +Most of the bus-management details are handled by the SATA-specific +transport of CAM. +Connected ATA disks are handled by the ATA protocol disk peripheral driver +.Xr ada 4 . +ATAPI devices are handled by the SCSI protocol peripheral drivers +.Xr cd 4 , +.Xr da 4 , +.Xr sa 4 , +etc. +.Pp +Driver features include support for Serial ATA and ATAPI devices, +Port Multipliers (including FIS-based switching, when supported), +hardware command queues (up to 31 command per port), +Native Command Queuing, SATA interface Power Management, device hot-plug +and Message Signaled Interrupts. +.Pp +The same hardware is also supported by the atamarvell and ataadaptec +drivers from the +.Xr ata 4 +subsystem. +If both drivers are loaded at the same time, this one will be +given precedence as the more functional of the two. +.Sh HARDWARE +The +.Nm +driver supports the following controllers: +.Pp +Gen-I (SATA 1.5Gbps): +.Bl -bullet -compact -offset "xxxxxx" +.It +88SX5040 +.It +88SX5041 +.It +88SX5080 +.It +88SX5081 +.El +.Pp +Gen-II (SATA 3Gbps, NCQ, PMP): +.Bl -bullet -compact -offset "xxxxxx" +.It +88SX6040 +.It +88SX6041 (including Adaptec 1420SA) +.It +88SX6080 +.It +88SX6081 +.El +.Pp +Gen-IIe (SATA 3Gbps, NCQ, PMP with FBS): +.Bl -bullet -compact -offset "xxxxxx" +.It +88SX6042 +.It +88SX7042 (including Adaptec 1430SA) +.It +88F5182 SoC +.It +88F6281 SoC +.It +MV78100 SoC +.El +.Pp +Note, that this hardware supports command queueing and FIS-based switching +only for ATA DMA commands. +ATAPI and non-DMA ATA commands executed one by one for each port. +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr ada 4 , +.Xr ata 4 , +.Xr cam 4 , +.Xr cd 4 , +.Xr da 4 , +.Xr sa 4 +.Sh HISTORY +The +.Nm +driver first appeared in +.Fx 8.1 . +.Sh AUTHORS +.An Alexander Motin Aq mav@FreeBSD.org |