controllers. bge(4) exported MAC statistics on controllers that
maintain the statistics in the NIC's internal memory. Newer
controllers require register access to fetch these values. These
counters provide useful information to diagnose driver issues.
parent driver. Use that information to configure flow-control.
One drawback is there is no way to disable flow-control as we still
don't have proper way to not advertise RX/TX pause capability to
link partner. But I don't think it would cause severe problems and
users can selectively disable flow-control in switch port.
has reached. This reduced number of dropped frames when
flow-control is enabled. Previously it dropped incoming frames once
RX MBUF low watermark has reached. The value used in MAC RX MBUF
low watermark is greater than or equal to 4 so receiving two more
RX frames should not be a problem.
Obtained from: OpenBSD
too many bge(4) controllers there and model name does not
necessarily match asic/chip revision. Relying on VPD string made
it hard to identify exact asic/chip revision so the first step to
debug bge(4) was getting exact asic/chip information with verbose
boot which may not be available on production server.
already updated after allocating mbuf so driver had to use the last
index instead of using next producer index. This should fix driver
hang which may happen under high network load.
Reported by: Igor Sysoev <is <> rambler-co dot ru>, Vlad Galu <dudu <> dudu dot ro>
Tested by: Igor Sysoev <is <> rambler-co dot ru>, Vlad Galu <dudu <> dudu dot ro>
MFC after: 10 days
or not by comparing reported TX consumer index with saved index. So
remove unnecessary check done after freeing transmitted mbufs.
While I'm here nuke unnecessary variable initializations.
tag. All controllers that are not BCM5755 or higher have 4GB
boundary DMA bug. Previously bge(4) used 32bit DMA address to
workaround the bug(r199670). However this caused the use of bounce
buffers such that it resulted in poor performance for systems which
have more than 4GB memory. Because bus_dma(9) honors boundary
restriction requirement of DMA tag for dynamic buffers, having a
separate TX/RX mbuf DMA tag will greatly reduce the possibility of
using bounce buffers. For DMA buffers allocated with
bus_dmamem_alloc(9), now bge(4) explicitly checks whether the
requested memory region crossed the boundary or not.
With this change, only the DMA buffer that crossed the boundary
will use 32bit DMA address. Other DMA buffers are not affected as
separate DMA tag is created for each DMA buffer.
Even if 32bit DMA address space is used for a buffer, the chance to
use bounce buffer is still very low as the size of buffer is small.
This change should eliminate most usage of bounce buffers on
systems that have more than 4GB memory.
More correct fix would be teaching bus_dma(9) to honor boundary
restriction for buffers created with bus_dmamem_alloc(9) but it
seems that is not easy.
While I'm here cleanup bge_dma_map_addr() and remove unnecessary
member variables in bge_dmamap_arg structure.
Tested by: marcel
datagrams with checksum value 0 when TX UDP checksum offloading is
enabled. Generating UDP checksum value 0 is RFC 768 violation.
Even though the probability of generating such UDP datagrams is
low, I don't want to see FreeBSD boxes to inject such datagrams
into network so disable UDP checksum offloading by default. Users
still override this behavior by setting a sysctl variable or loader
tunable, dev.bge.%d.forced_udpcsum.
I have no idea why this issue was not reported so far given that
bge(4) is one of the most commonly used controller on high-end
server class systems. Thanks to andre@ who passed the PR to me.
PR: kern/104826
r165114 added that code and that change ignored the same logic
committed in r135772. In addition, data FIFO protection should be
selectively enabled instead of applying to all PCIe devices.
While I'm here add BCM5785 to devices that do not require this
fix.
configuration to get IPv4 TSO work on BCM57780. While I'm here
apply the same fix to BCM5785 which shares similar hardware feature
of BCM57780. This change makes TSO work on BCM57780.
Tested by: Tong Liu <nemoliu <> gmail dot com>
buffers it should also reinitialize RX descriptors otherwise some
stale data could be passed to controller. This could end up with
mbuf double free or unexpected NULL pointer dereference in upper
stack. To fix the issue, save loaded buffer's length and
reinitialize RX descriptors with the saved value whenever bge(4)
reuses the loaded RX buffers.
While I'm here, increase the number of RX buffers to 512 from 256.
This simplifies RX buffer handling as well as giving more RX
buffers. Controller supports just fixed number of RX buffers
(i.e. 512) and bge(4) used to rely on hope that our CPU is fast
enough to keep up with the controller. With this change, bge(4)
will use 1MB for RX buffers but I don't think it would cause
problems in these days.
Reported by: marcel
Tested by: marcel
index of status block is read first before acknowledging the
interrupts. Otherwise bge(4) may get stale status block as
acknowledging an interrupt may yield another status block update.
Reviewed by: marius
Also disable relaxed ordering as recommended by data sheet for
PCI-X devices. For PCI-X BCM5704, set maximum outstanding split
transactions to 0 as indicated by data sheet.
For BCM5703 in PCI-X mode, DMA read watermark should be less than
or equal to maximum read byte count configuration. Enforce this
limitation in DMA read watermark configuration.
the issue. I still have no idea why TSO does not work on this
controller. davidch@ also confirmed there is no known TSO related
issues for this controller.
not support TSO over VLAN if VLAN hardware tagging is disabled so
there is no need to check VLAN here.
While I'm here make sure to pullup IP/TCP headers in the first
buffer.
to make TSO work on VLAN. So if VLAN hardware tagging is disabled
explicitly clear TSO on VLAN. While I'm here remove duplicated
VLAN_CAPABILITIES call.
The softc obtained in device probe wouldn't be the same one used in
device attach. Drivers should not assume any values stored in softc
structure in probe routine will be available for its attach routine.
no effect. Make sure to clear error bits by writing 1. [1]
While I'm here use predefined value instead of hardcodig magic
vlaue.
Submitted by: msaitoh at NetBSD [1]
implementation of heartbeat interval was 2 but there was typo which
caused the heartbeat is sent approximately every 5 seconds. This
caused unintended controller reset by firmware because firmware
thought OS was crashed.
Submitted by: Floris Bos < info <> je-eigen-domein dot nl >
Tested by: Andrzej Tobola < ato <> iem dot pw dot edu dot pl >
chains. This part of code is to enhance performance so failing the
collapsing should not free TX frames. Otherwise bge(4) will
unnecessarily drop frames which in turn can freeze the network
connection.
Reported by: Igor Sysoev (is <> rambler-co dot ru)
Tested by: Igor Sysoev (is <> rambler-co dot ru)
over GMII, make sure to enable GMII. With this change brgphy(4) is
used to handle the dual mode PHY. Since we still don't have a sane
way to pass PHY specific information to mii(4) layer special
handling is needed in brgphy(4) to determine which mode of PHY was
configured in parent interface.
This change make BCM5715S work.
Tested by: olli
Obtained from: OpenBSD
MFC after: 1 week
o Don't enable BGE_FLAG_BER_BUG on both 5722 and 5756, and based
on their PCI IDs rather than their chip IDs.
Reported by: several PC-BSD users via kmoore
Reviewed by: yongari, imp, jhb, davidch
Sponsored by: iXsystems, Inc.
MFC after: 2 weeks
same ASIC ID of BCM5758 such that r198318 incorecctly enabled TSO
on BCM5754.BCM5754M controllers. BCM5754/BCM5754M needs a special
firmware to enable TSO and bge(4) does not support firmware based
TSO.
Reported by: ed
Tested by: ed
hw.bge.forced_collapse. hw.bge.forced_collapse affects all bge(4)
controllers on system which may not desirable behavior of the
sysctl node. Also allow the sysctl node could be modified at any
time.
Reviewed by: bde (initial version)
feature. These registers are reserved on controllers that have no
support for jumbo frame.
Only BCM5700 has mini ring so do not poke mini ring related
registers if controller is not BCM5700.
Reviewed by: marius
handler in brgphy(4) does not exist and brgphy(4) just resets the
PHY and returns EINVAL as it has no isolation handler. I also agree
on Marius's opinion that stop handler of every NIC driver seems to
be the wrong place for implementing PHY isolate/power down.
If we need PHY isolate/power down it should be implemented in
brgphy(4) and users should administratively down the PHY.
Reviewed by: marius
single outstanding DMA read operation. Most controllers targeted to
client with PCIe bus interface(e.g. BCM5761) may have this
limitation. All controllers for servers does not have this
limitation.
Collapsing mbuf chains to reduce number of memory reads before
transmitting was most effective way to workaround this. I got about
940Mbps from 850Mbps with mbuf collapsing on BCM5761. However it
takes a lot of CPU cycles to collapse mbuf chains so add tunable to
control the number of allowed TX buffers before collapsing. The
default value is 0 which effectively disables the forced collapsing.
For most cases 2 would yield best performance(about 930Mbps)
without much sacrificing CPU cycles.
Note the collapsing is only activated when the controller is on
PCIe bus and the frame does not need TSO operation. TSO does not
seem to suffer from the hardware limitation because the payload
size is much bigger than normal IP datagram.
Thanks to davidch@ who told me the limitation of client controllers
and actually gave possible workarounds to mitigate the limitation.
Reviewed by: davidch, marius
Tx/Rx/Rx return ring such that large part of status block was not
used at all. All bge(4) controllers except BCM5700 AX/BX has a
feature to control the size of status block. So use minimum status
block size allowed in controller. This reduces number of DMAed
status block size to 32 bytes from 80 bytes.
