The valectl(4) program is used to manage vale(4) switches.
Add it to the system commands so that it can be used right away.
This program was previously called vale-ctl, and stored in
tools/tools/netmap
Reviewed by: hrs, bcr, lwhsu, kevans
MFC after: 1 week
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D22146
After r353292, netmap generic adapter on if_vlan interfaces panics on
asserting the NET_EPOCH. In more detail, this happens when
nm_os_generic_xmit_frame() is called, that is in the generic txsync
routine.
Fix the issue by entering the NET_EPOCH during the generic txsync.
We amortize the cost of entering/exiting over a whole batch of
transmissions.
PR: 241489
Reported by: Aleksandr Fedorov <aleksandr.fedorov@itglobal.com>
This patch is part of an effort to make bhyve networking (in particular TCP)
faster. The key strategy to enhance TCP throughput is to let the whole packet
datapath work with TSO/LRO packets (up to 64KB each), so that the per-packet
overhead is amortized over a large number of bytes.
This capability is supported in the guest by means of the vtnet(4) driver,
which is able to handle TSO/LRO packets leveraging the virtio-net header
(see struct virtio_net_hdr and struct virtio_net_hdr_mrg_rxbuf).
A bhyve VM exchanges packets with the host through a network backend,
which can be vale(4) or if_tap(4).
While vale(4) supports TSO/LRO packets, if_tap(4) does not.
This patch extends if_tap(4) with the ability to understand the virtio-net
header, so that a tapX interface can process TSO/LRO packets.
A couple of ioctl commands have been added to configure and probe the
virtio-net header. Once the virtio-net header is set, the tapX interface
acquires all the IFCAP capabilities necessary for TSO/LRO.
Reviewed by: kevans
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D21263
Atomics are used for page busy and valid state when the shared busy is
held. The details of the locking protocol and valid and dirty
synchronization are in the updated vm_page.h comments.
Reviewed by: kib, markj
Tested by: pho
Sponsored by: Netflix, Intel
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D21594
There are several mechanisms by which a vm_page reference is held,
preventing the page from being freed back to the page allocator. In
particular, holding the page's object lock is sufficient to prevent the
page from being freed; holding the busy lock or a wiring is sufficent as
well. These references are protected by the page lock, which must
therefore be acquired for many per-page operations. This results in
false sharing since the page locks are external to the vm_page
structures themselves and each lock protects multiple structures.
Transition to using an atomically updated per-page reference counter.
The object's reference is counted using a flag bit in the counter. A
second flag bit is used to atomically block new references via
pmap_extract_and_hold() while removing managed mappings of a page.
Thus, the reference count of a page is guaranteed not to increase if the
page is unbusied, unmapped, and the object's write lock is held. As
a consequence of this, the page lock no longer protects a page's
identity; operations which move pages between objects are now
synchronized solely by the objects' locks.
The vm_page_wire() and vm_page_unwire() KPIs are changed. The former
requires that either the object lock or the busy lock is held. The
latter no longer has a return value and may free the page if it releases
the last reference to that page. vm_page_unwire_noq() behaves the same
as before; the caller is responsible for checking its return value and
freeing or enqueuing the page as appropriate. vm_page_wire_mapped() is
introduced for use in pmap_extract_and_hold(). It fails if the page is
concurrently being unmapped, typically triggering a fallback to the
fault handler. vm_page_wire() no longer requires the page lock and
vm_page_unwire() now internally acquires the page lock when releasing
the last wiring of a page (since the page lock still protects a page's
queue state). In particular, synchronization details are no longer
leaked into the caller.
The change excises the page lock from several frequently executed code
paths. In particular, vm_object_terminate() no longer bounces between
page locks as it releases an object's pages, and direct I/O and
sendfile(SF_NOCACHE) completions no longer require the page lock. In
these latter cases we now get linear scalability in the common scenario
where different threads are operating on different files.
__FreeBSD_version is bumped. The DRM ports have been updated to
accomodate the KPI changes.
Reviewed by: jeff (earlier version)
Tested by: gallatin (earlier version), pho
Sponsored by: Netflix
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D20486
The netmap_pt.c module has become obsolete after
the refactoring that added netmap_kloop.c.
Remove it and unlink it from the build system.
MFC after: 1 week
Print the adapter name rather than the address of the adapter
to avoid kernel address leakage.
PR: Bug 238642
Submitted by: Fuqian Huang <huangfq.daxian@gmail.com>
Reviewed by: vmaffione
MFC after: 1 week
This patch fixes 2 panics. The first one is due to the current VNET not
being set in the emulated adapter transmission path. The second one
is caused by the M_PKTHDR flag not being set when preallocated mbufs
are recycled in the transmit path.
Submitted by: aleksandr.fedorov@itglobal.com
Reviewed by: vmaffione
MFC after: 2 weeks
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D20824
These are obviously missing from the .c files, but don't show up in any
tinderbox configuration (due to latent header pollution of some kind). It
seems some configurations don't have this pollution, and the includes are
obviously missing, so go ahead and add them.
Reported by: Peter Jeremy <peter AT rulingia.com>
X-MFC-With: r347984
Some applications forward from/to host rings most or all the
traffic received or sent on a physical interface. In this
cases it is desirable to have more than a pair of RX/TX host
rings, and use multiple threads to speed up forwarding.
This change adds support for multiple host rings. On registering
a netmap port, the user can specify the number of desired receive
and transmit host rings in the nr_host_tx_rings and nr_host_rx_rings
fields of the nmreq_register structure.
MFC after: 2 weeks
This change adds a counter (kqueue_users) to keep track of how many
kqueue users are referencing a given struct nm_selinfo.
In this way, nm_os_selwakeup() can schedule the kevent notification
task only when kqueue is actually being used.
This is important to avoid wasting CPU in the common case where
kqueue is not used.
Reviewed by: Aleksandr Fedorov <aleksandr.fedorov@itglobal.com>
MFC after: 1 week
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D19177
Changelist:
- Replace ND, D and RD macros with nm_prdis, nm_prinf, nm_prerr
and nm_prlim, to avoid possible naming conflicts.
- Add netmap_krings_mode_commit() helper function and use that
to reduce code duplication.
- Refactor pipes control code to export some functions that
can be reused by the veth driver (on Linux) and epair(4).
- Add check to reject API requests with version less than 11.
- Small code refactoring for the null adapter.
MFC after: 1 week
Add SYNC_KLOOP_MODE option, and add support for direct mode, where application
executes the TXSYNC and RXSYNC in the context of the ioeventfd wake up callback.
MFC after: 5 days
When using poll(), select() or kevent() on netmap file descriptors,
netmap executes the equivalent of NIOCTXSYNC and NIOCRXSYNC commands,
before collecting the events that are ready. In other words, the
poll/kevent callback has side effects. This is done to avoid the
overhead of two system call per iteration (e.g., poll() + ioctl(NIOC*XSYNC)).
When the kqueue subsystem invokes the kqueue(9) f_event callback
(netmap_knrw), it holds the lock of the struct knlist object associated
to the netmap port (the lock is provided at initialization, by calling
knlist_init_mtx).
However, netmap_knrw() may need to wake up another netmap port (or even
the same one), which means that it may need to call knote().
Since knote() needs the lock of the struct knlist object associated to
the to-be-wake-up netmap port, it is possible to have a lock order reversal
problem (AB/BA deadlock).
This change prevents the deadlock by executing the knote() call in a
per-selinfo taskqueue, where it is possible to hold a mutex.
Reviewed by: aleksandr.fedorov_itglobal.com
MFC after: 2 weeks
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D18956
On sync-kloop stop, send a wake-up signal to the kloop, so that
waiting for the timeout is not needed.
Also, improve logging in netmap_freebsd.c.
MFC after: 3 days
Changelist:
- Add the proper memory barriers in the kloop ring processing
functions.
- Fix memory barriers usage in the user helpers (nm_sync_kloop_appl_write,
nm_sync_kloop_appl_read).
- Fix nm_kr_txempty() helper to look at rhead rather than rcur. This
is important since the kloop can read a value of rcur which is ahead
of the value of rhead (see explanation in nm_sync_kloop_appl_write)
- Remove obsolete ptnetmap_guest_write_kring_csb() and
ptnet_guest_read_kring_csb(), and update if_ptnet(4) to use those.
- Prepare in advance the arguments for netmap_sync_kloop_[tr]x_ring(),
to make the kloop faster.
- Provide kernel and user implementation for nm_ldld_barrier() and
nm_ldst_barrier()
MFC after: 2 weeks
The nm_os_selwakeup function needs to call knote() to wake up kqueue(9)
users. However, this function can be called from different code paths,
with different lock requirements.
This patch fixes the knote() call argument to match the relavant lock state.
Also, comments have been updated to reflect current code.
PR: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=219846
Reported by: Aleksandr Fedorov <aleksandr.fedorov@itglobal.com>
Reviewed by: markj
MFC after: 2 weeks
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D18876
To check if txsync can be skipped, it is necessary to look for
unseen TX space. However, this means comparing ring->cur
against ring->tail, rather than ring->head against ring->tail
(like nm_ring_empty() does).
This change also adds some more comments to explain the optimization
performed at the beginning of netmap_poll().
MFC after: 3 days
Sponsored by: Sunny Valley Networks
The bug was introduced by r339639, although it is present in the upstream
netmap code since 2015. It is due to resetting the want_rx variable to
POLLIN, rather than resetting it to POLLIN|POLLRDNORM.
It only affects select(), which uses POLLRDNORM. poll() is not affected,
because it uses POLLIN.
Also, it only affects FreeBSD, because Linux skips the optimization
implemented by the piece of code where the bug occurs.
MFC after: 3 days
Sponsored by: Sunny Valley Networks
This code validates the netmap buf_size against the interface MTU
and maximum descriptor size, to make sure the values are consistent.
Moving this functionality to its own function is needed because this
function is also called by Linux-specific code.
MFC after: 3 days
The iflib subsystem implements netmap support in a driver-independent
way (sys/net/iflib.c). We can therefore remove the headers that
used to implement netmap support for all the drivers now supported
by iflib (em, igb, ixl, ixgbe, lem).
MFC after: 1 week
This allows tcpdump to capture outbound kernel packets while
in netmap mode
Submitted by: Marc de la Gueronniere <mdelagueronniere@verisign.com>
Reviewed by: vmaffione
MFC after: 1 week
Sponsored by: Verisign, Inc.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D17896
Changelist:
- Replace netmap passthrough host support with a more general
mechanism to call TXSYNC/RXSYNC from an in-kernel event-loop.
No kernel threads are used to use this feature: the application
is required to spawn a thread (or a process) and issue a
SYNC_KLOOP_START (NIOCCTRL) command in the thread body. The
kernel loop is executed by the ioctl implementation, which returns
to userspace only when a different thread calls SYNC_KLOOP_STOP
or the netmap file descriptor is closed.
- Update the if_ptnet driver to cope with the new data structures,
and prune all the obsolete ptnetmap code.
- Add support for "null" netmap ports, useful to allocate netmap_if,
netmap_ring and netmap buffers to be used by specialized applications
(e.g. hypervisors). TXSYNC/RXSYNC on these ports have no effect.
- Various fixes and code refactoring.
Sponsored by: Sunny Valley Networks
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D18015
Revision r307394 removed (by mistake) the code that sets IFCAP_NETMAP
in if_capabilities on netmap_attach. This patch reverts this change.
Reviewed by: np
Approved by: gnn (mentor)
MFC after: 3 days
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D17987
netmap(4) support for vtnet(4) was incomplete and had multiple bugs.
This commit fixes those bugs to bring netmap on vtnet in a functional state.
Changelist:
- handle errors returned by virtqueue_enqueue() properly (they were
previously ignored)
- make sure netmap XOR rest of the kernel access each virtqueue.
- compute the number of netmap slots for TX and RX separately, according to
whether indirect descriptors are used or not for a given virtqueue.
- make sure sglist are freed according to their type (mbufs or netmap
buffers)
- add support for mulitiqueue and netmap host (aka sw) rings.
- intercept VQ interrupts directly instead of intercepting them in txq_eof
and rxq_eof. This simplifies the code and makes it easier to make sure
taskqueues are not running for a VQ while it is in netmap mode.
- implement vntet_netmap_config() to cope with changes in the number of queues.
Reviewed by: bryanv
Approved by: gnn (mentor)
MFC after: 3 days
Sponsored by: Sunny Valley Networks
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D17916
Changelist:
- Move large parts of VALE code to a new file and header netmap_bdg.[ch].
This is useful to reuse the code within upcoming projects.
- Improvements and bug fixes to pipes and monitors.
- Introduce nm_os_onattach(), nm_os_onenter() and nm_os_onexit() to
handle differences between FreeBSD and Linux.
- Introduce some new helper functions to handle more host rings and fake
rings (netmap_all_rings(), netmap_real_rings(), ...)
- Added new sysctl to enable/disable hw checksum in emulated netmap mode.
- nm_inject: add support for NS_MOREFRAG
Approved by: gnn (mentor)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D17364
The libkqueue tests have several places that leak memory by using an
idiom like:
puts(kevent_to_str(kevp));
Rework to save the pointer returned from kevent_to_str() and then
free() it after it has been used.
Reported by: asomers (pointer to Coverity), Coverity
CID: 1296063, 1296064, 1296065, 1296066, 1296067, 1350287, 1394960
Sponsored by: Dell EMC
Changelist:
- Turn tx_rings and rx_rings arrays into arrays of pointers to kring
structs. This patch includes fixes for ixv, ixl, ix, re, cxgbe, iflib,
vtnet and ptnet drivers to cope with the change.
- Generalize the nm_config() callback to accept a struct containing many
parameters.
- Introduce NKR_FAKERING to support buffers sharing (used for netmap
pipes)
- Improved API for external VALE modules.
- Various bug fixes and improvements to the netmap memory allocator,
including support for externally (userspace) allocated memory.
- Refactoring of netmap pipes: now linked rings share the same netmap
buffers, with a separate set of kring pointers (rhead, rcur, rtail).
Buffer swapping does not need to happen anymore.
- Large refactoring of the control API towards an extensible solution;
the goal is to allow the addition of more commands and extension of
existing ones (with new options) without the need of hacks or the
risk of running out of configuration space.
A new NIOCCTRL ioctl has been added to handle all the requests of the
new control API, which cover all the functionalities so far supported.
The netmap API bumps from 11 to 12 with this patch. Full backward
compatibility is provided for the old control command (NIOCREGIF), by
means of a new netmap_legacy module. Many parts of the old netmap.h
header has now been moved to netmap_legacy.h (included by netmap.h).
Approved by: hrs (mentor)
Changelist:
- remove unused nkr_slot_flags
- new nm_intr adapter callback to enable/disable interrupts
- remove unused sysctls and document the other sysctls
- new infrastructure to support NS_MOREFRAG for NIC ports
- support for external memory allocator (for now linux-only),
including linux-specific changes in common headers
- optimizations within netmap pipes datapath
- improvements on VALE control API
- new nm_parse() helper function in netmap_user.h
- various bug fixes and code clean up
Approved by: hrs (mentor)
The change upgrades the driver to use the split Communication Status
Block (CSB) format. In this way the variables written by the guest
and read by the host are allocated in a different cacheline than
the variables written by the host and read by the guest; this is
needed to avoid cache thrashing.
Approved by: hrs (mentor)
Uses of mallocarray(9).
The use of mallocarray(9) has rocketed the required swap to build FreeBSD.
This is likely caused by the allocation size attributes which put extra pressure
on the compiler.
Given that most of these checks are superfluous we have to choose better
where to use mallocarray(9). We still have more uses of mallocarray(9) but
hopefully this is enough to bring swap usage to a reasonable level.
Reported by: wosch
PR: 225197
Focus on code where we are doing multiplications within malloc(9). None of
these is likely to overflow, however the change is still useful as some
static checkers can benefit from the allocation attributes we use for
mallocarray.
This initial sweep only covers malloc(9) calls with M_NOWAIT. No good
reason but I started doing the changes before r327796 and at that time it
was convenient to make sure the sorrounding code could handle NULL values.
Mainly focus on files that use BSD 2-Clause license, however the tool I
was using misidentified many licenses so this was mostly a manual - error
prone - task.
The Software Package Data Exchange (SPDX) group provides a specification
to make it easier for automated tools to detect and summarize well known
opensource licenses. We are gradually adopting the specification, noting
that the tags are considered only advisory and do not, in any way,
superceed or replace the license texts.
All of these arguments are stored in m_ext, so there is no reason
to pass them in the argument list. Not all functions need the second
argument, some don't even need the first one. The second argument
lives in next cache line, so not dereferencing it is a performance
gain. This was discovered in sendfile(2), which will be covered by
next commits.
The second goal of this commit is to bring even more flexibility
to m_ext mbufs, allowing to create more fields in m_ext, opaque to
the generic mbuf code, and potentially set and dereferenced by
subsystems.
Reviewed by: gallatin, kbowling
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D12615
