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[src/trunk]: src/share/man/man4 Various fixes: wording, sections, sort order, ...



details:   https://anonhg.NetBSD.org/src/rev/60cdf23cd417
branches:  trunk
changeset: 818044:60cdf23cd417
user:      wiz <wiz%NetBSD.org@localhost>
date:      Wed Sep 21 20:12:12 2016 +0000

description:
Various fixes: wording, sections, sort order, articles.

diffstat:

 share/man/man4/nvme.4 |  68 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------------
 1 files changed, 35 insertions(+), 33 deletions(-)

diffs (132 lines):

diff -r 6935c5bc9141 -r 60cdf23cd417 share/man/man4/nvme.4
--- a/share/man/man4/nvme.4     Wed Sep 21 20:01:03 2016 +0000
+++ b/share/man/man4/nvme.4     Wed Sep 21 20:12:12 2016 +0000
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"    $NetBSD: nvme.4,v 1.5 2016/09/21 20:01:03 jdolecek Exp $
+.\"    $NetBSD: nvme.4,v 1.6 2016/09/21 20:12:12 wiz Exp $
 .\"    $OpenBSD: nvme.4,v 1.2 2016/04/14 11:53:37 jmc Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 2016 David Gwynne <dlg%openbsd.org@localhost>
@@ -30,64 +30,65 @@
 storage controllers conforming to the
 Non-Volatile Memory Host Controller Interface specification.
 Controllers complying to specification version 1.1 and 1.2 are known to work.
-Other versions should too for normal operation with exception of some
-passthrough commands.
+Other versions should work too for normal operation with the exception of some
+pass-through commands.
 .Pp
-Driver supports following features:
+The driver supports the following features:
 .Bl -bullet -compact -offset indent
 .It
 controller and namespace configuration and management using
-.Xr nvmectl 1
+.Xr nvmectl 8
 .It
 highly parallel I/O using per-CPU I/O queues
 .It
 PCI MSI/MSI-X attachment, and INTx for legacy systems
 .El
 .Pp
-On systems supporting MSI/MSI-X,
+On systems supporting MSI/MSI-X, the
 .Nm
 driver uses per-CPU IO queue pairs for lockless and highly parallelized I/O.
 Interrupt handlers are scheduled on distinct CPUs.
-Driver allocates as many interrupt vectors as available, up to number
+The driver allocates as many interrupt vectors as available, up to number
 of CPUs + 1.
 MSI supports up to 32 interrupt vectors within the system,
 MSI-X can have up to 2k.
-Each I/O queue pair has separate command circular buffer.
+Each I/O queue pair has a separate command circular buffer.
+The
 .Nm
-specification allows up to 64k commands per queue, driver currently allocates
+specification allows up to 64k commands per queue, the driver currently allocates
 1024 items per queue by default.
-Command submissions are done always on current CPU, command completion
-interrupt is handled on CPU according to I/O queue ID - first I/O queue on CPU0,
-second I/O queue on CPU1 etc.
+Command submissions are done always on the current CPU, the command completion
+interrupt is handled on the CPU corresponding to the I/O queue ID
+- first I/O queue on CPU0, second I/O queue on CPU1, etc.
 Admin queue command completion is not tied to any CPU, it's handled by
 any CPU.
-To keep lock contention to minimum, it's recommended to keep this assignment,
-even thought it is possible to reassign the interrupt handlers differently,
+To keep lock contention to minimum, it is recommended to keep this assignment,
+even though it is possible to reassign the interrupt handlers differently
 using
-.Xr intrctl 1 .
-Driver also uses soft interrupts to process command completions, in order to
-increase total system I/O capacity and throughput.
+.Xr intrctl 8 .
+The driver also uses soft interrupts to process command completions, in order to
+increase the total system I/O capacity and throughput.
 .Pp
-On systems without MSI, driver uses single HW interrupt handler, for
+On systems without MSI, the driver uses a single HW interrupt handler for
 both admin and standard I/O commands.
-Command submissions are done on current CPU, command completion interrupt
-is handled on any available CPU. This leads to some lock contention,
-especially on command ccbs.
+Command submissions are done on the current CPU, the command completion interrupt
+is handled on any available CPU.
+This leads to some lock contention, especially on command ccbs.
 Also, command completion handling must be done within the HW interrupt
 handler.
 .Sh FILES
 .Bl -tag -width /dev/nvmeX -compact
 .It Pa /dev/nvme*
 nvme device special files used by
-.Xr nvmectl 1 .
+.Xr nvmectl 8 .
 .El
 .Sh SEE ALSO
 .Xr intro 4 ,
 .Xr ld 4 ,
 .Xr pci 4 ,
-.Xr nvmectl 1 ,
+.Xr intrctl 8 ,
 .Xr MAKEDEV 8 ,
-.Xr intrctl 1
+.Xr nvmectl 8
 .Rs
 .%A NVM Express, Inc.
 .%T "NVM Express \- scalable, efficient, and industry standard"
@@ -130,23 +131,24 @@
 .Nm
 adapter cards are known to require
 .Tn PCIe
-Generation 3 slot. Such cards do not even probe when plugged
+Generation 3 slot.
+Such cards do not even probe when plugged
 into older generation slot.
 .Pp
-Driver attaches and works fine also for emulated
+The driver also attaches and works fine for emulated
 .Nm
-device under QEMU and
+devices under QEMU and
 .Tn Oracle
 .Tn VirtualBox .
-However,
-there seems to be some broken interaction between
+However, there seems to be some broken interaction between
 .Tn VirtualBox
 5.1.6
-and the driver, emulated
+and the driver, the emulated
 .Nm
-controller responds to commands only first time it's attached, after reboot or
-module reload stops responding. Virtual machine must be completely powered off
-(or even killed) to fix.
+controller responds to commands only the first time it is attached,
+after reboot or module reload it stops responding.
+The virtual machine must be completely powered off
+(or even killed) to fix this.
 .Pp
 .Nm
 kernel module is currently only loadable for kernels configured with



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