in the 21143, instead of giving priority to the receive unit.
This gives a 10-15% performance improvement in the forwarding rate
under heavy load.
Reviewed-by: Bill Paul
Jonathon Lemon's driver (gx) is at least as fast and has more features
and is likely to be better supported.
It is also possible that Intel might support this chipset in FreeBSD
with their own driver. Somewhat secretive and furtive rumblings from
certain Yahoo employees have indicated that this might happen soon.
I'm a little unhappy at the lack of discussion on the net list about
this, or on developers, or on hackers, or the lack of mention on
audit. This then leaves me to try and figure out the right thing
to do.
I've concluded that the right thing to do is to remove wx from FreeBSD,
as this is probably best for FreeBSD.
What the heck, the OpenBSD version will benefit.
1. Add wx_txint_delay as a tunable (defaults to 5000 now, or ~5ms) and switch
to using delayed TXDW interrupts. Since the chip continues to reload the
TIDV with this value for each descriptor written back, this allows continued
deferral of the actual interrupt until the last packet completes (assuming
that 5ms between multiple packets transmitting is reasonable).
2. Add two other SYSCTL entities:
hw.wx.dump_stats
hw.wx.clear_stats
to be used, hackey hackey, to get the watchdog routine to dump/clear
the current softc statistics.
Usage would be:
sysctl -w hw.wx.dump_stats=UNIT
to cause the current stats to be dumped for UNIT.
3. Attempt to clean up wx_detach routine so we don't panic. Well, things
still panic, but given that the code is just like other NIC drivers,
I suspect it's actually something elsewhere, like e1000phy, that's actually
blowing up.
4. Skip the entire test for runt packets- after doing somet thinking
and experimenting, I believe that the chip only doesn't like it if
the whole frame to xmit is < 16 bytes- each TFD can be some fragment
of that. This should improve performance a chunk because of all of the
(14 byte ETHERHEADER + DATA) mbuf chains.
5. Keep track of total frame length. Try not to xmit an odd byte frame-
this is supposed to get around some dumb Cisco switch problems.
6. On the last packet, also set Interrupt Delay && Report Packet Sent
(see #1 above)
7. Attempt to do xmit garbage collection *first* in order to avoid setting
IFF_OACTIVE if at all possible.
MFC after: 1 week
We only support the size of frame we are currently allocating, which
is MCLBYTES - sizeof (struct ether_header) usable, so don't set an
MTU that would go over this.
it now really gets in the way.
This allows us to fix several problems- not least of which was problems
of ordering about when you'd have a device softc for an miibus child
available or not. Move some steps of things around.
Put the ifnet/arpcom structure at the head of the softc (PR 29249).
Don't do tx gc in the interrupt service routine- that seems to make
things a bit more efficient.
Enable jumbo support by default- but this version of 'jumbo' is broken
because it really is just using multiple tfd/rfd's to match a packet,
which will never be > CLSIZE anyway.
This should begin the first steps toward cleaning this driver up.
PR: 29249
MFC after: 1 week
seems to set up memory spaces correctly. This change actually did work for
me using -STABLE, XFree86 4.0.3 ~ some snapshot of DRI awhile back. I sent
mail to dfr to no avail, perhaps someone else would like to test it with
DRI.
Anyway, people have been nagging me about this change for awhile, so here's
the commit.
amdpm(4) and smb(4).
This device can be used with userland programs such as sysutils/lmmon
to retrieve sensor information from the motherboard.
PR: kern/23989
Obtained from: Matthew C. Forman <mcf@dmu.ac.uk>
Based on: alpm(4)
Note ALL MODULES MUST BE RECOMPILED
make the kernel aware that there are smaller units of scheduling than the
process. (but only allow one thread per process at this time).
This is functionally equivalent to teh previousl -current except
that there is a thread associated with each process.
Sorry john! (your next MFC will be a doosie!)
Reviewed by: peter@freebsd.org, dillon@freebsd.org
X-MFC after: ha ha ha ha
laptops with this chip should test this and report back as I don't have
access to this hardware myself. People with -stable systems should try
the patch at:
http://www.freebsd.org/~wpaul/conexant.patch.gz
Submitted by: Phil Kernick <Phil@Kernick.org>
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.
prevent/workaround TX lockups in this driver. The secret seems to be to
not let the TX DMA queue become too full. If we have too many packets
in the queue, we should wait for them to drain a bit before trying to
queue more. This should prevent the lockup from occurring, and if it
does occur, there is special code in sf_start() to kick the NIC in the
head and get it going again.
Special thanks to Glen Neff for helping me test this fix.
night of testing before merging to -stable.
Also added to code to detect TX underruns and automatically increase the
TX threshold to avoid them. Carefully placed diagnostig printf() about
this under #ifdef DIAGNOSTIC to avoid getting any panicky e-mails from
confused users, like I always do with the xl and dc drivers.
calling vtophys() and contigmalloc()/contigfree() directly. Hopefully,
I have shaken out all of the problems with busdma on the alpha now.
(Everything seems to work as expected.)
Also, change the max RX DMA limit to 1024 bytes instead of "unlimited,"
as the latter seems not to work correctly on the alpha that I tested.
(At 100Mbps, all attempts to receive frames yield RX errors.)
common_attach is wrong as common attach initialize some fileds used by
mediainit routine. This was hard to notify because loading driver as kld
lead to mediainit routine being called after common_attach, though probe_phy
is called before.
MFC after: 1 week
never completed" message. The RX reset takes longer complete than it
used to, a lot longer in fact than xl_wait() is prepared to wait.
When we do the RX reset in xl_reset(), this cases xl_wait() to time out
and whine. We wait a little extra time now after the RX reset, which
should silence the warning.
Thanks to obrien for finally getting me a box with a NIC that
causes this problem for me to tinker with.
a bunch of frames. In this case, the dc_link flag is cleared, and dc_start()
stops draining the if_snd send queue, which results in lots of 'no buffers
available' errors being reported to applications. The whole idea behind
not draining the send queue until the link comes up was to avoid having
the gratuitous ARP being lost while we're waiting for autoneg to complete
after the interface is first brought up. As an optimization, change the
test in dc_start() so that we only bail if dc_link is not set _and_ there
are less than 10 packets in the send queue. If the queue has many frames
in it, we need to drain them. If the queue has a small number of frames
in it, we can hold off on sending them until the link comes up.
MFC after: 1 week
something: offset into the first mbuf of the target chain before copying
the source data over.
Make drivers using m_devget() with a first argument "data - ETHER_ALIGN"
to use the offset argument to pass ETHER_ALIGN in. The way it was previously
done is potentially dangerous if the source data was at the top of a page
and the offset caused the previous page to be copied (if the
previous page has not yet been appropriately mapped).
The old `offset' argument in m_devget() is not used anywhere (it's always
0) and dates back to ~1995 (and earlier?) when support for ethernet trailers
existed. With that support gone, it was merely collecting dust.
Tested on alpha by: jlemon
Partially submitted by: jlemon
Reviewed by: jlemon
MFC after: 3 weeks
412: warning: long unsigned int format, unsigned int arg (arg 3)
418: warning: long unsigned int format, unsigned int arg (arg 3)
424: warning: long unsigned int format, unsigned int arg (arg 3)
PCN_BCR_CLRBIT(sc, PCN_BCR_MIICTL, PCN_MIICTL_DANAS);
should be:
PCN_BCR_SETBIT(sc, PCN_BCR_MIICTL, PCN_MIICTL_DANAS);
Turning this bit on is what disables MII autoneg, not turning it off.
Without this, manually setting the media doesn't work.
Noticed by: Jim Browne <jbrowne@jbrowne.com>
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
