Software Partitioning, Atm Tx | Intel IXP1200 manual

IXP1200 Network Processor Family ATM OC-3/12/Ethernet IP Router Example Design

2.3Software Partitioning

The following figures show how the microcode functional blocks are partitioned on IXP12xx hardware for the three system configurations.

Figure 7. IXP1240 1xATM OC-12 and 8xEthernet 100Mbps Microengine Partitioning

OC-12 Port

ATM RX

Port 8

Port 8

Port 8

Port 8

MSGQ

IPR

IP Route

IP Route

IP Route

IP Route

PktQ

PktQ

PktQ

PktQ

PktQ

PktQ

PktQ

PktQ

Ethernet TX

Scheduler

Fill

Fill

Fill

Ethernet

Ethernet

Ethernet

Ethernet

Ethernet

Ethernet

Ethernet

Ethernet

OC-12 Port

ATM TX

Fill

Fill

Fill

Unused

MSGQ

	Ethernet RX
MSGQ
MSGQ	Port4

	Port5

	Port6

	Port7

Ethernet RX

Port0	Ethernet
Port1	Ethernet
Port2	Ethernet
Ethernet Port3	Ethernet
Ethernet
Ethernet
Ethernet

Legend:

= Thread		=	Scratchpad
= Microengine			Memory	= MSGQ
= Physical Port		=	SRAM

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All three figures show the ATM ports on the left, and the Ethernet ports on the right. All ports are bi-directional, but are shown as uni-directional for clarity. The IX bus is configured in dual 32 bit unidirectional mode.

The ATM Receive microengine uses the SRAM VC Lookup Table to assemble ATM cells into AAL5 PDUs in DRAM. It forwards the descriptor to the fully-assembled PDUs to the IP Route microengine via a single message queue (MSGQ) in scratchpad RAM.

The IP Route microengine reads the IP header from DRAM, performs additional checks per RFC1812, performs an IP lookup to make a routing decision, then enqueues the Ethernet frame to the appropriate Ethernet Transmit packet queue. In the Software CRC configuration, the packet is processed by a CRC-32 checking microengine before being enqueued to an Ethernet transmit packet.

In the reverse direction, Ethernet frames are received on the Ethernet ports by the Ethernet receive microengine(s), which perform IP lookup and RFC1812 checks. The packets are then enqueued on the appropriate queues to be consumed by the ATM transmit microengine. In the software CRC configuration Figure 9, the PDUs are first processed by a CRC generation microengine before going to the ATM Transmit microengine.

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Modified on: 3/20/02,

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Contents

IXP1200 Network Processor Family Application Note Contents Virtual Circuit Lookup Table Cache Limitations Figures Introduction Purpose of ATM Example DesignScope of Example Design Ethernet, IP and AAL5 Protocol Processing Configuration DescriptionBackground Supported / Not Implemented Functions SAR Frame and PDU Length vs. IP Packet Length Frame and PDU Length vs. IP Packet Length Expected Ethernet Transmit Bandwidth Software Execution Environment Developer’s Workbench ATM Data Stream Dialog Box System Overview System Programming ModelHardware System Programming Model StrongARM Core Software ATM TX Software Partitioning Lookup Tables Data Flow ATM to Ethernet Data FlowVC Lookup ATM to Ethernet Processing Steps IP Lookup Table Ethernet to ATM Data Flow StrongARM Core Initialization Structure Microengine Functional BlocksMicroengine Initialization ATM Receive Microengine OC-12 Port OC-3 Ports High Level Algorithm ATM Transmit High Level Algorithm ATM Transmit Microengine Ethernet Receive Microengine IP-Router Microengine Ethernet Transmit Microengine Ethernet Receive StructureEthernet Receive High Level Algorithm CRC-32 Calculations using IXP1240/1250 Hardware Ethernet Transmit StructureCRC-32 Hardware Checking on Receive First Cell of a PDU in Rfifo and in Dram Bytes Big Endian Diagram Transmit Alignment CRC-32 Hardware Generation on Transmit Functional Differences between Checker and Generator CRC-32 Checker and Generator Microengines Soft-CRC CRC-32 Computation Software Subsystems & Data StructuresVirtual Circuit Lookup Table atmvctable.uc CRC-32 Checker and Generator High Level Algorithm Vctablehashed Structure Primary VC Table Vctablelinear Structure VC Table Entry VC Table Management API atmutils.c Entry Description Buffer Offset Buffer IndexCell data11 Entry Description VC Cache Structure VC Cache Function 1.1 OC-12 Configuration1.2 OC-3 Configuration Virtual Circuit Lookup Table Cache IP Table Structure IP Lookup TableVC Cache API IP Table Function Atmrouteadd IP Table Management APIRoutetableinit Mtuchange Rthelp EnetrouteaddRtentinfo Routedelete 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Sram Buffer Descriptors and Dram Data Buffers Sram Buffer Descriptor Format Next BD Last Quad Queue IndexATM Header Entry Description Enet SrcAdr Dram Data Buffer Format2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Bytes 2 3 4 API Call Description Sequence Numbers sequence.ucSystem Limit on Packet Buffers Sequencehandle Usage Step Sequence Operation Bakery Line Analogy Message Queues msgq.ucUsage Model Example Msgqsend Msgqhandle ParametersMsgqinitqueue Msgqinitregs Ramoption Msgqreceive BDQ Management Macros 1.1 FeaturesFeature Description Buffer Descriptor Queues bdq.uc Count Counters Counter Index Global ParametersUse of the Counter Subsystem Counter Base Address Counter Group Description Global Counter Enable and FlagsCounter Flags #define Statement Description Counters.uc Counterreset CounterincPortcounterinc Intotaldiscards Portcounterinc Algorithm Countersprint Counters.c Countersinit Atmtxcrcbadbd Global $transfer Register Name Manager xfer.uc Mutexvectorexit Mutex VectorsMutexvectorinit Mutexvectorenter Project Configuration / Modifying the Example Design Inter-Thread SignallingProjectconfig.h Testing Environments Systemconfig.hSwitching Between Hardware Configurations Simulation Support Scripts, etc LimitationsExtending the Example Design 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 ... Bytes Document ConventionsAcronyms & Definitions Byte Title Description Related Documents