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NAME¶
ahci — Serial ATA Advanced Host Controller Interface driverSYNOPSIS¶
To compile this driver into the kernel, place the following lines in your kernel configuration file:device pci
device scbus
device ahci
Alternatively, to load the driver as a module at boot time, place the following
line in loader.conf(5):
device scbus
device ahci
ahci_load="YES"
- hint.ahci.X.msi
- controls Message Signaled Interrupts (MSI) usage by the
specified controller
- 0
- MSI disabled;
- 1
- single MSI vector used, if supported (default);
- 2
- multiple MSI vectors used, if supported;
- hint.ahci.X.ccc
- controls Command Completion Coalescing (CCC) usage by the specified controller. Non-zero value enables CCC and defines maximum time (in ms), request can wait for interrupt, if there are some more requests present on controller queue. 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.ahcich.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;
- 2
- host initiates PARTIAL PM state transition every time port becomes idle;
- 3
- host initiates SLUMBER PM state transition every time port becomes idle.
- 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.ahcich.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 AHCI-compatible controllers. Each SATA port found is represented to CAM as a separate bus with one target, or, if HBA supports Port Multipliers, 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 32 commands per port), Native Command Queuing, SATA interface Power Management, device hot-plug and Message Signaled Interrupts. AHCI hardware is also supported by ataahci driver from ata(4) subsystem. If both drivers are loaded at the same time, this one will be given precedence as the more functional of the two.HARDWARE¶
The ahci driver supports AHCI compatible controllers having PCI class 1 (mass storage), subclass 6 (SATA) and programming interface 1 (AHCI). Also, in cooperation with atamarvell and atajmicron drivers of ata(4), it supports AHCI part of legacy-PATA + AHCI-SATA combined controllers, such as JMicron JMB36x and Marvell 88SX61xx.SEE ALSO¶
ada(4), ata(4), cam(4), cd(4), da(4), sa(4)HISTORY¶
The ahci driver first appeared in FreeBSD 8.0.AUTHORS¶
Alexander Motin ⟨mav@FreeBSD.org⟩.January 28, 2010 | Debian |