Previously rl(4) continuously checked whether there are RX events
or TX completions in forever loop. This caused TX starvation under
high RX load as well as consuming too much CPU cycles in the
interrupt handler. If interrupt was shared with other devices which
may be always true due to USB devices in these days, rl(4) also
tried to process the interrupt. This means polling(4) was the only
way to mitigate the these issues.
To address these issues, rl(4) now disables interrupts when it
knows the interrupt is ours and limit the number of iteration of
the loop to 16. The interrupt would be enabled again before exiting
interrupt handler if the driver is still running. Because RX buffer
is 64KB in size, the number of iterations in the loop has nothing
to do with number of RX packets being processed. This change
ensures sending TX frames under high RX load.
RX handler drops a driver lock to pass received frames to upper
stack such that there is a window that user can down the interface.
So rl(4) now checks whether driver is still running before serving
RX or TX completion in the loop.
While I'm here, exit interrupt handler when driver initialized
controller.
With this change, now rl(4) can send frames under high RX load even
though the TX performance is still not good(rl(4) controllers can't
queue more than 4 frames at a time so low TX performance was one of
design issue of rl(4) controllers). It's much better than previous
TX starvation and you should not notice RX performance drop with
this change. Controller still shows poor performance under high
network load but for many cases it's now usable without resorting
to polling(4).
MFC after: 2 weeks
- Use %t to print ptrdiff_t values.
- Cast a ptrdiff_t value explicitly to int for a field width specifier.
While here, sort includes.
Submitted by: Garrett Cooper
frobbing CFLAGS directly. DEBUG_FLAGS is something that can be specified
on the make command line without having to edit the Makefile directly.
Submitted by: Garrett Cooper
using miibus, since for some devices that use multiple addresses on the bus,
going through miibus may be unclear, and for devices that are not standard
MII PHYs, miibus may throw a fit, necessitating complicated interfaces to
fake the interface that it expects during probe/attach.
o) Make the mv88e61xx SMI interface in octe attach a PHY directly and fix some
mistakes in the code that resulted from trying too hard to present a nice
interface to miibus.
o) Add a PHY driver for the mv88e61xx. If attached (it is optional in kernel
compiles so the default behavior of having a dumb switch is preserved) it
will place the switch in a VLAN-tagging mode such that each physical port
has a VLAN associated with it and interfaces for the VLANs can be created to
address or bridge between them.
XXX It would be nice for this to be part of a single module including the
SMI interface, and for it to fit into a generic switch configuration
framework and for it to use DSA rather than VLANs, but this is a start
and gives some sense of the parameters of such frameworks that are not
currently present in FreeBSD. In lieu of a switch configuration
interface, per-port media status and VLAN settings are in a sysctl tree.
XXX There may be some minor nits remaining in the handling of broadcast,
multicast and unknown destination traffic. It would also be nice to go
through and replace the few remaining magic numbers with macros at some
point in the future.
XXX This has only been tested with the MV88E6161, but it should work with
minimal or no modification on related switches, so support for probing
them was included.
Thanks to Pat Saavedra of TELoIP and Rafal Jaworowski of Semihalf for their
assistance in understanding the switch chipset.
data size greater than 8192. Since soreserve(so, 256*1024, 256*1024)
would always fail for the default value of sb_max, modify clnt_dg.c
so that it uses the calculated values and checks for an error return
from soreserve(). Also, add a check for error return from soreserve()
to clnt_vc.c and change __rpc_get_t_size() to use sb_max_adj instead of
the bogus maxsize == 256*1024.
PR: kern/150910
Reviewed by: jhb
MFC after: 2 weeks
and Exim can use).
This is something I thought I committed MONTHS ago, but it appears
that I fatfingered it and made a local commit.
Pass the pointy hat, please.
receive producer ring only for BCM5700. It was believed that
BCM5700 with external SSRAM is the only controller that supports
mini ring but it seems all BCM570[0-4] requires to disable mini
receive producer ring. Otherwise, it caused unexpected RX DMA
error or watchdog timeouts.
Reported by: marius, Steve Kargl <sgk <> troutmask dot apl dot washington dot edu>
Tested by: marius, Steve Kargl <sgk <> troutmask dot apl dot washington dot edu>
Short description of the changes:
- attempt to retry some commands for which it is possible (read, query)
- always make a short sleep before checking EC status in polled mode
- periodically poll EC status in interrupt mode
- change logic for detecting broken interrupt delivery and falling back
to polled mode
- check that EC is ready for input before starting a new command, wait
if necessary
This commit is based on the original patch by David Naylor.
PR: kern/150517
Submitted by: David Naylor <naylor.b.david@gmail.com>
Reviewed by: jkim
MFC after: 3 weeks
This is based on the same approach as used in panic().
In theory parallel execution of generic_stop_cpus() could lead to two CPUs
stopping each other and everyone else, and thus a total system halt.
Also, in theory, we should have some smarter locking here, because two
(or more CPUs) could be stopping unrelated sets of CPUs.
But in practice, it seems, this function is only used to stop
"all other" CPUs.
Additionally, I took this opportunity to make amd64-specific suspend_cpus()
function use generic_stop_cpus() instead of rolling out essentially
duplicate code.
This code is based on code by Sandvine Incorporated.
Suggested by: mdf
Reviewed by: jhb, jkim (earlier version)
MFC after: 2 weeks
