I/OAT is also referred to as Crystal Beach DMA and is a Platform Storage
Extension (PSE) on some Intel server platforms.
This driver currently supports DMA descriptors only and is part of a
larger effort to upstream an interconnect between multiple systems using
the Non-Transparent Bridge (NTB) PSE.
For now, this driver is only built on AMD64 platforms. It may be ported
to work on i386 later, if that is desired. The hardware is exclusive to
x86.
Further documentation on ioat(4), including API documentation and usage,
can be found in the new manual page.
Bring in a test tool, ioatcontrol(8), in tools/tools/ioat. The test
tool is not hooked up to the build and is not intended for end users.
Submitted by: jimharris, Carl Delsey <carl.r.delsey@intel.com>
Reviewed by: jimharris (reviewed my changes)
Approved by: markj (mentor)
Relnotes: yes
Sponsored by: Intel
Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon Storage Division
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D3456
in lockstat.ko. This means that lockstat probes now have typed arguments and
will utilize SDT probe hot-patching support when it arrives.
Reviewed by: gnn
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D2993
This will require for AArch64 as we dont have modules yet.
Sponsored by: HEIF5
Sponsored by: ARM Ltd.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D1997
- Vmbus multi channel support.
- Vector interrupt support.
- Signal optimization.
- Storvsc driver performance improvement.
- Scatter and gather support for storvsc driver.
- Minor bug fix for KVP driver.
Thanks royger, jhb and delphij from FreeBSD community for the reviews
and comments. Also thanks Hovy Xu from NetApp for the contributions to
the storvsc driver.
PR: 195238
Submitted by: whu
Reviewed by: royger, jhb, delphij
Approved by: royger
MFC after: 2 weeks
Relnotes: yes
Sponsored by: Microsoft OSTC
For now restrict it to amd64. Other architectures might be
re-added later once tested.
Remove the drivers from the global NOTES and files files and move
them to the amd64 specifics.
Remove the drivers from the i386 modules build and only leave the
amd64 version.
Rather than depending on "inet" depend on "pci" and make sure that
ixl(4) and ixlv(4) can be compiled independently [2]. This also
allows the drivers to build properly on IPv4-only or IPv6-only
kernels.
PR: 193824 [2]
Reviewed by: eric.joyner intel.com
MFC after: 3 days
References:
[1] http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/svn-src-all/2014-August/090470.html
lindev(4) was only used to provide /dev/full which is now a standard feature of
FreeBSD. /dev/full was never linux-specific and provides a generally useful
feature.
Document this in UPDATING and bump __FreeBSD_version. This will be documented
in the PH shortly.
Reported by: jkim
The NTB allows you to connect two systems with this device using a PCI-e
link. The driver is made of two modules:
- ntb_hw which is a basic hardware abstraction layer for the device.
- if_ntb which implements the ntb network device and the communication
protocol.
The driver is limited at the moment to CPU memcpy instead of using DMA, and
only Back-to-Back mode is supported. Also the network device isn't full
featured yet. These changes will be coming soon. The DMA change will also
bring in the ioat driver from the project branch it is on now.
This is an initial port of the GPL/BSD Linux driver contributed by Jon Mason
from Intel. Any bugs are my contributions.
Sponsored by: Intel
Reviewed by: jimharris, joel (man page only)
Approved by: jimharris (mentor)
will prevent the kernel from linking if the device driver are included
without the virtio module. Remove pci and scbus for the same reason.
Also explain the relationship and necessity of the virtio and virtio_pci
modules. Currently in FreeBSD, we only support VirtIO PCI, but it could
be replaced with a different interface (like MMIO) and the device
(network, block, etc) will still function.
Requested by: luigi
Approved by: grehan (mentor)
MFC after: 3 days
- Move mwlfw from {amd64,i386}/conf/NOTES to sys/conf/NOTES (mwl(4) is
already present in sys/conf/NOTES).
- Remove duplicate mwl(4) entries from {amd64,i386}/conf/NOTES.
- While here, add a description to the sfxge line in amd64/conf/NOTES.
- Mark 'sdp' as requiring 'inet'.
- Always include "opt_inet.h" and "opt_inet6.h" and modify the IB
driver Makefiles to honor WITH/WITHOUT_INET/INET6/_SUPPORT options
to determine what should be enabled during a module build.
- Fix the mlxen(4) driver and the core IB code to compile without
if INET is disabled (including when both INET and INET6 are disabled).
Reviewed by: bz
MFC after: 2 weeks
longer serve any purpose. Prior to r157446, they served a purpose
because there was a fixed amount of kernel virtual address space
reserved for pv entries at boot time. However, since that change pv
entries are accessed through the direct map, and so there is no limit
imposed by a fixed amount of kernel virtual address space.
Fix a couple of nearby style issues.
Reviewed by: jhb, kib
MFC after: 1 week
Winbond Super I/O chips.
With minor efforts it should be possible the extend the driver to support
further chips/revisions available from Winbond. In the simplest case
only new IDs need to be added, while different chipsets might require
their own function to enter extended function mode, etc.
Sponsored by: Sandvine Incorporated ULC (in 2011)
Reviewed by: emaste, brueffer
MFC after: 2 weeks
The isci driver is for the integrated SAS controller in the Intel C600
(Patsburg) chipset. Source files in sys/dev/isci directory are
FreeBSD-specific, and sys/dev/isci/scil subdirectory contains
an OS-agnostic library (SCIL) published by Intel to control the SAS
controller. This library is used primarily as-is in this driver, with
some post-processing to better integrate into the kernel build
environment.
isci.4 and a README in the sys/dev/isci directory contain a few
additional details.
This driver is only built for amd64 and i386 targets.
Sponsored by: Intel
Reviewed by: scottl
Approved by: scottl
back after I fix the breakages on some of our more exotic platforms.
While here, add the driver to the amd64 NOTES, so it can be picked up in LINT
builds.
This is a minor cosmetic change - the users are more likely to want to
increase (rather than decrease) default kernel stack size,
which is already 4 pages on amd64.
MFC after: 4 days
This information can be very valuable for CPU sleep-time (and respectively
idle power consumption) optimization.
Add counters for timer-related IPIs.
Reviewed by: jhb@ (previous version)
