^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 1) # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 2) menuconfig NTB
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 3) tristate "Non-Transparent Bridge support"
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 4) depends on PCI
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 5) help
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 6) The PCI-E Non-transparent bridge hardware is a point-to-point PCI-E bus
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 7) connecting 2 systems. When configured, writes to the device's PCI
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 8) mapped memory will be mirrored to a buffer on the remote system. The
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 9) ntb Linux driver uses this point-to-point communication as a method to
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 10) transfer data from one system to the other.
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 11)
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 12) If unsure, say N.
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 13)
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 14) if NTB
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 15)
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 16) config NTB_MSI
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 17) bool "MSI Interrupt Support"
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 18) depends on PCI_MSI
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 19) help
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 20) Support using MSI interrupt forwarding instead of (or in addition to)
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 21) hardware doorbells. MSI interrupts typically offer lower latency
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 22) than doorbells and more MSI interrupts can be made available to
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 23) clients. However this requires an extra memory window and support
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 24) in the hardware driver for creating the MSI interrupts.
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 25)
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 26) If unsure, say N.
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 27) source "drivers/ntb/hw/Kconfig"
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 28)
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 29) source "drivers/ntb/test/Kconfig"
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 30)
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 31) config NTB_TRANSPORT
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 32) tristate "NTB Transport Client"
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 33) help
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 34) This is a transport driver that enables connected systems to exchange
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 35) messages over the ntb hardware. The transport exposes a queue pair api
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 36) to client drivers.
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 37)
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 38) If unsure, say N.
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 39)
^8f3ce5b39 (kx 2023-10-28 12:00:06 +0300 40) endif # NTB