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NAME

     mvs — Marvell Serial ATA Host Controller driver

SYNOPSIS

     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):

           mvs_load="YES"

     The following tunables are settable from the loader(8):

     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:

           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.

     Note that interface Power Management is not compatible with device presence detection.  A
     manual bus reset is needed on device hot-plug.

     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

     Gen-II (SATA 3Gbps, NCQ, PMP):
              88SX6040
              88SX6041 (including Adaptec 1420SA)
              88SX6080
              88SX6081

     Gen-IIe (SATA 3Gbps, NCQ, PMP with FBS):
              88SX6042
              88SX7042 (including Adaptec 1430SA)
              88F5182 SoC
              88F6281 SoC
              MV78100 SoC

     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.

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 <mav@FreeBSD.org>