- Take advantage of m_collapse(9).
- Sync with other NIC drivers and prepend a TX mbuf if the first attempt
to load it fails with an error other than EFBIG and stop trying instead
of freeing it and keeping on trying to enqueue more mbufs. Also ensure
the driver queue isn't empty before trying to enqueue mbufs in order to
reduce locking operations.
- In xl_ifmedia_upd() add a missing XL_UNLOCK(). [1]
- Const'ify the xl_devs array.
- Remove an outdated comment.
PR: 113406 [1]
MFC after: 1 month
driving xl_watchdog() in order to avoid races accessing if_timer.
While at it relax the watchdog a bit by reloading it in xl_txeof()/
xl_txeof_90xB() if there are still packets enqueued.
- Use bus_get_dma_tag() so xl(4) works on platforms requiring it.
- Don't bother to set if_mtu to ETHERMTU, ether_ifattach() does that.
if_ioctl, if_watchdog, etc, or in functions that are used by
these methods only. In all other cases use device_printf().
This also fixes several panics, when if_printf() is called before
softc->ifp was initialized.
Submitted by: Alex Lyashkov <umka sevcity.net>
- Remove a lot of superfluous locking during attach. There is no need
to lock access to the driver until some other thread has a way of getting
to it. For ethernet drivers the other ways include registering an
interrupt handler via bus_setup_intr(), calling ether_ifattach() to hook
into the network stack, and kicking off a callout-driven timer via
callout_reset().
- Use callout_* rather than timeout/untimeout.
- Break out of xl_rxeof() if IFF_DRV_RUNNING is clear after ifp->if_input
returns to handle the case where the interface was stopped while we were
passing a packet up the stack. Don't call xl_rxeof() in xl_rxeof_task()
unless IFF_DRV_RUNNING is set. With these fixes in place, any
outstanding task will gracefully terminate as soon as it gets a chance to
run after the interface has been stopped via xl_stop(). As a result,
taskqueue_drain() is no longer required in xl_stop(). The task is still
drained in detach() however to make sure that detach() can safely destroy
the driver mutex at the end of the function.
- Lock the driver lock in the ifmedia callouts and don't lock across
ifmedia_ioctl() in xl_ioctl().
Note: glebius came up with most of (3) as well independently. I took a
rather roundabout way of arriving at the same conclusion.
MFC after: 3 days
struct ifnet or the layer 2 common structure it was embedded in have
been replaced with a struct ifnet pointer to be filled by a call to the
new function, if_alloc(). The layer 2 common structure is also allocated
via if_alloc() based on the interface type. It is hung off the new
struct ifnet member, if_l2com.
This change removes the size of these structures from the kernel ABI and
will allow us to better manage them as interfaces come and go.
Other changes of note:
- Struct arpcom is no longer referenced in normal interface code.
Instead the Ethernet address is accessed via the IFP2ENADDR() macro.
To enforce this ac_enaddr has been renamed to _ac_enaddr.
- The second argument to ether_ifattach is now always the mac address
from driver private storage rather than sometimes being ac_enaddr.
Reviewed by: sobomax, sam
in case of IP fast forwarding. Enqueue a taskqueue(9) task instead of
calling xl_rxeof() directly.
Reported & tested by: Slava Alpatov
Reviewed by: wpaul
MFC after: 1 week
3C920B-EMB-WNM Integrated Fast Ethernet Controller
Submitter reports that the card appears to autonegotiate properly, and
operate well with high levels of NFS traffic.
PR: 75253
Submitted by: "Oleg V. Nauman" <oleg at reis dot zp dot ua>
MFC after: 2 weeks
the packets are immediately returned for sending (e.g. when bridging
or packet forwarding). There are more efficient ways to do this
but for now use the least intrusive approach.
Reviewed by: imp, rwatson
register, present only on 3c90xB and later NICs. This meant that you could
not use a 1500 byte MTU with VLANs on original 3c905/3c900 cards (boomerang
chipset). The boomerang chip does support large frames though, just not
in the same way: you can set the 'allow large frames' bit in the MAC
control register to receive frames up to 4K in size.
Changes:
- Set the 'allow large frames' bit for boomerang chips and increase
the packet size register for cyclone and later chips. This allows
us to use IFCAP_VLAN_MTU on all supported xl(4) NICs.
- Actually set the IFCAP_VLAN_MTU flag in the capabilities word
in xl_attach().
- Change the method used to detect older boomerang chips. My 3c575C
cardbus NIC was being incorrectly identified as 3c90x chip instead
of 3c90xB because the capabilities word in its EEPROM reports
a bizzare value. In addition to checking for the supportsNoTxLength
bit, also check for the absence of the supportsLargePackets bit.
Both of these cases denote a 3c90xB chip.
- Make RX and TX checksums configurable via the SIOCSIFCAP ioctl.
- Avoid an unecessary le32toh() in xl_rxeof(): we already have the
received frame size in the lower 16 bits of rxstat, no need to
read it again.
Tested with 3c905-TX, 3c900-TPO, 3c980C and 3c575C NICs.
driver should use port or memory based IO, determine it dynamically
at runtime, preferring MMIO where possible. This helps us support newer
arches which dislike port based access better.
Tested on i386 & sparc64, with 3c900, 905, 905b, and 905C cards.
(in varying combinations by both jake and myself)
bus_dmamap_load() it.
- Make it so reusing mbufs when we can't allocate (or map) new ones
actually works. We were previously trying to reuse a mbuf which
was already bus_dmamap_unload()'ed.
Reviewed by: silby
- Add conversions to/from little endian for fields that the NIC accesses
by DMA as required.
- Add some bus_dmamap_sync() calls, and correct some existing ones.
- Read the receiver information from the EEPROM in an endian-neutral
manner.
- Load all RX and TX descriptors in a single DMA map up front, and
get the bus addresses of individual descriptors by address arithmetic;
this fixes multiple use of the descriptor tags, which would have
undesired effects.
It seems that xl still does not work on e250 boxen, for reasons which
are not clear yet.
Reviewed by: mux
it possible to use this driver under ia64, sparc64 (though
there may be endianness issues with this one) and other archs.
Tested on: i386, alpha (gallatin)
a major slowdown, and re-enable stats overflow interrupts.
For future reference, the bug was in our code, and not
some bug in the 3com chips.
Reviewed by: wpaul
MFC after: 2 days
dual function card. It needs pretty much the same flags as the 656C,
except that it seems to need both the INVERT_MII_PWR and INVERT_LED_PWR
flags set. Tested with cardbus in -current as of today.
Also added support for the 3c656, which looks to be the same as
the 656B, except it doesn't need the EEPROM_8BIT flag. I think. This
one is untested, but the added support should not break any of the
other cards.
setting the 'max packet size' register in window 3. This only
works for cards based on the cyclone or newer chipsets (i.e. it
won't work with the original 3c905/boomerang cards).
There is a trick which will work with the boomerang, which is to turn
on the 'large packets ok' bit in the MAC control register, however this
lets the chip accept any frame up to 4K in length, which is larger than
the mbuf cluster buffers we use to receive frames. If somebody sends us
such a frame and the chip DMAs it to us, it could write past the end
of the cluster buffer and clobber something.
PR: kern/27742
much more often that expected and negatively impact performance when
running at 100mbps. I need to figure out if there's a better way to
handle this, but for now this shouldn't hurt anything.
mtx_enter(lock, type) becomes:
mtx_lock(lock) for sleep locks (MTX_DEF-initialized locks)
mtx_lock_spin(lock) for spin locks (MTX_SPIN-initialized)
similarily, for releasing a lock, we now have:
mtx_unlock(lock) for MTX_DEF and mtx_unlock_spin(lock) for MTX_SPIN.
We change the caller interface for the two different types of locks
because the semantics are entirely different for each case, and this
makes it explicitly clear and, at the same time, it rids us of the
extra `type' argument.
The enter->lock and exit->unlock change has been made with the idea
that we're "locking data" and not "entering locked code" in mind.
Further, remove all additional "flags" previously passed to the
lock acquire/release routines with the exception of two:
MTX_QUIET and MTX_NOSWITCH
The functionality of these flags is preserved and they can be passed
to the lock/unlock routines by calling the corresponding wrappers:
mtx_{lock, unlock}_flags(lock, flag(s)) and
mtx_{lock, unlock}_spin_flags(lock, flag(s)) for MTX_DEF and MTX_SPIN
locks, respectively.
Re-inline some lock acq/rel code; in the sleep lock case, we only
inline the _obtain_lock()s in order to ensure that the inlined code
fits into a cache line. In the spin lock case, we inline recursion and
actually only perform a function call if we need to spin. This change
has been made with the idea that we generally tend to avoid spin locks
and that also the spin locks that we do have and are heavily used
(i.e. sched_lock) do recurse, and therefore in an effort to reduce
function call overhead for some architectures (such as alpha), we
inline recursion for this case.
Create a new malloc type for the witness code and retire from using
the M_DEV type. The new type is called M_WITNESS and is only declared
if WITNESS is enabled.
Begin cleaning up some machdep/mutex.h code - specifically updated the
"optimized" inlined code in alpha/mutex.h and wrote MTX_LOCK_SPIN
and MTX_UNLOCK_SPIN asm macros for the i386/mutex.h as we presently
need those.
Finally, caught up to the interface changes in all sys code.
Contributors: jake, jhb, jasone (in no particular order)
takes care of all the 10/100 and gigE PCI drivers that I've done.
Next will be the wireless drivers, then the USB ones. I may pick up
some stragglers along the way. I'm sort of playing this by ear: if
anyone spots any places where I've screwed up horribly, please let me
know.
laptops. I've checked that this still works with the other cards and
it works with the 3c556 that I have access to, but I want to check that
it works with the 556B mentioned in PR #20878 before I close out the PR
and merge to -stable.
the 3c450-TX HomeConnect. Like the 3cSOHO100-TX OfficeConnect, this NIC
uses the same ASIC as the 3c905B/3c905C but is targeted for a particular
market segment (home users). It is somewhat less expensive than the
3c905B/3c905C ($49, according to the 3Com web site), comes with its
own custom driver kit and is bundled with various goofy Windows software
packages designed to demonstrate the niftyness of home networking (networked
game demos, etc...).
Changes are:
- Add PCI ID to list in if_xlreg.h.
- Update xl_devs table in if_xl.c.
- Update xl_choose_xcvr() to consider the HomeConnect the
same as all the other 10baseT/100baseTX cards.
- When setting/clearing promisc mode, just update the filter, don't
reset the whole interface.
- Call xl_init() in xl_ifmedia_upd() when setting miibus media modes. This
fixes a problem with the 3c905B-COMBO where switching from 10base5/AUI
or 10base2/BNC to a 10/100 mode doesn't always work right.
- Attempt to reset the interface in xl_init() so that we know we're getting
the receive and transmit rings reset properly.
strategy used in the 3Com Linux driver. The new strategy is to use transmit
descriptor polling -- that is, the NIC polls the descriptors to see when
new packets are available for transmission. The advantage to the new scheme
is that no register accesses are needed in the transmit routine. The old
scheme requires several register accesses to stall the TX engine, update the
TX DMA list pointer register, then unstall the TX engine. Hopefully the new
scheme will provide improved transmit performance with less CPU overhead.
This only affects the 3c90xB or 3c90xC cards, not the 3c90x cards. This
means the original 3c900 and 3c905 cards are unaffected. Newer cards include
the 3c900B series, the 3c905B, 3c980, 3c980B, 3c905C and 3c905C, and the
3cSOHO100-TX OfficeConnect.
It's GPL'ed of course, but looking over it tonight I learned of Yet Another
Fast EtherLink XL Adapter: the 3c980C server adapter. This is basically
an updated version of the 3c980 that uses the Tornado ASIC instead of the
earlier Hurricane ASIC. The only change here is to add the new PCI device
ID (0x9805) and corresponding table entries.
due to the fact that there are non-MII cards supported by the same
driver and I don't have all of the cards available for testing. There's
also the 3c905B-COMBO which has MII, AUI and BNC media ports all in one
package. Supporting the COMBO is difficult because we have to add the
10base5 and 10base2 media types to the same ifmedia struct as the
MII-attached types, however there is no way to force the miibus and
child PHYs into existence before xl_attach() completes, so there is
no ifmedia struct available in xl_attach(). What we do inistead is
use the mediainit method as a callback: when a child PHY is attached,
it calls the miibus mediainit routine which selects a default media.
This routing also calls the NIC driver's mediainit method (if it
implements one) at which point we can safely add the other media
types.
into a loadable module, and all of the platform dependencies are gone
(except for the alpha_XXX_dmamap() thing, which is another issue -- I
still don't know how to use the busdma stuff with a network driver).
Also increase the delay in xl_reset(); testing on a 486/66 with a 3c905C
shows that reading the EEPROM fails immediately after a reset. Waiting
a little longer after the reset completes seems to fix it.
chipset. First you thrilled to the 3c905, then you trembled at the
3c905B, now gaze in wonder at: the 3c905C! This appears to be another
3c90X series chip called the Tornado (PCI ID 0x10B7/0x9200) and should
be equivalent (from the driver API perspective) to the 3c905B, so all
we have to do is add the PCI ID to the list.
preparation for tsunami support. Previous chipsets' direct-mapped DMA
mask was always 1024*1024*1024. The Tsunami chipset needs it to be
2*1024*1024*1024
These changes should not affect the i386 port
Reviewed by: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>
- Try to unbreak what I broke by screwing with the tx queuing again.
I'm waiting for a few more people to test out this code and report back
before I move it into current. Hopefully it will be soon. Basically I
reverted to the old TX queuing strategy.
- Add experimental support for the 3c900B-FL (10mbps ST fiber). The card
should be detected properly and the 10baseFL mode supported, but again
I'm still waiting for word from a tester to see if this actually works.
It shouldn't affect the other cards though; all the differences are in
media selection.
- Set the TX start threshold register to get better performance.
- Increase the size of the RX and TX rings. UDP performance was pretty
bad because the TX ring was too small. Should be substantially better
now (I can saturate the link with either TCP or UDP now).
- Change some of the #defines to reflect proper 3Com ASIC names (boomerang,
cyclone, krakatoa, hurricane).
- Simplify and reorganize interrupt handler; ack all interrupts right
away and then process them. This avoids a potential race condition.
(Noted by Matt Dillon.)
- Reorganize the bridging code to eliminate using a goto to jump into
the middle of an if() {} clause. Sorry, that just made my brain itch.
- Use m_adj() in xl_rxeof().
- Make the payload alignment in xl_newbuf() the default (instead of
just conditionally defined for the alpha) to improve NFS performance
(avoids need for nfs_realign()).
3c900B-TPC (twisted pair and coax). Treated similarly to the
3c900B-COMBO, except no AUI port.
- Fix media selection so that it's possible to select the AUI and BNC
ports on the 3c905B-COMBO. This board is now fully supported.
- Change TX queueing strategy to hopefully be more efficient by avoiding
register accesses in xl_start(). Should provide small performance
improvement and a little better reliability.
(cut-down version of the "cyclone" for the small office/home office
"cheap bastard" market). Basically the same as a 3c905B but without
Wake-on-LAN, ROM socket, etc...
- Wait longer for the reset to complete in xl_attach() to try and avoid
'command never completed' warnings.
- Clean up a few odds and ends in xl_attach().
- Add PCI ID for the 3c905B-COMBO (a new card). Right now this is
treated as a 3c905B; I need to dig up one of these cards for testing
before I can make the AUI and BNC ports work.
- Add a hack to force reading the I/O address directly from the PCI
registers if pci_map_port() fails. I SHOULD NOT HAVE TO DO THIS:
SOMEBODY WITH MORE PCI CLUES THAN I SHOULD INVESTIGATE WHY THIS
HAPPENS.
sys/alpha/conf/GENERIC.
Note: the PNIC ignores the lower few bits of the RX buffer DMA address,
which means we have to add yet another kludge to make it happy. Since
we can't offset the packet data, we copy the first few bytes of the
received data into a separate mbuf with proper alignment. This puts
the IP header where it needs to be to prevent unaligned accesses.
Also modified the PNIC driver to use a non-interrupt driven TX
strategy. This improves performance somewhat on x86/SMP systems where
interrupt delivery doesn't seem to be as fast with an SMP kernel as
with a UP kernel.
Revert the transmission packet queueing strategy changes. Clearly I missed
something while debugging this, although I never encountered any problems
on my test machines.
Also make one other minor change: jack up the TX reclaim threshold for
3c90xB adapters in order to stave off 'transmission error: 82' errors.
Document the existence of the tx reclaim register (for inspecting the
current reclaim threshold) in register window 5 (if_xlreg.h).
