NAME
mvs — Marvell Serial ATA Host Controller driverSYNOPSIS
To compile this driver into the kernel, place the following lines in your kernel configuration file:
device
pci
device scbus
device mvs
Alternatively, to load the driver as a module at boot time, place the following
line in loader.conf(5):
device scbus
device mvs
mvs_load="YES"
- hint.mvs.X.msi
- controls Message Signaled Interrupts (MSI) usage by the specified controller.
- hint.mvs.X.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.
- hint.mvs.X.cccc
- defines number of completed commands for CCC, which trigger interrupt without waiting for specified coalescing timeout.
- hint.mvsch.X.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:
Note that interface Power Management is not compatible with device presence detection. A manual bus reset is needed on device hot-plug.
- 0
- interface Power Management is disabled (default);
- 1
- device is allowed to initiate PM state change, host is passive;
- 4
- driver initiates PARTIAL PM state transition 1ms after port becomes idle;
- 5
- driver initiates SLUMBER PM state transition 125ms after port becomes idle.
- hint.mvsch.X.sata_rev
- setting to nonzero value limits maximum SATA revision (speed). Values 1, 2 and 3 are respectively 1.5, 3 and 6Gbps.
DESCRIPTION
This driver provides the CAM(4) subsystem with native access to the 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 ada(4). ATAPI devices are handled by the SCSI protocol peripheral drivers cd(4), da(4), sa(4), etc. 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.HARDWARE
The mvs driver supports the following controllers: Gen-I (SATA 1.5Gbps):- 88SX5040
- 88SX5041
- 88SX5080
- 88SX5081
- 88SX6040
- 88SX6041 (including Adaptec 1420SA)
- 88SX6080
- 88SX6081
- 88SX6042
- 88SX7042 (including Adaptec 1430SA)
- 88F5182 SoC
- 88F6281 SoC
- MV78100 SoC
SEE ALSO
ada(4), ata(4), cam(4), cd(4), da(4), sa(4)HISTORY
The mvs driver first appeared in FreeBSD 8.1.AUTHORS
Alexander Motin <[email protected]>| March 23, 2015 | Debian |