Right now processing a full 512 frame queue takes quite a while (measured
on the order of milliseconds.) Because of this, the TX processing ends up
sometimes preempting the taskqueue:
* userland sends a frame
* it goes in through net80211 and out to ath_start()
* ath_start() will end up either direct dispatching or software queuing a
frame.
If TX had to wait for RX to finish, it would add quite a few ms of
additional latency to the packet transmission. This in the past has
caused issues with TCP throughput.
Now, as part of my attempt to bring sanity to the TX/RX paths, the first
step is to make the RX processing happen in smaller 'parts'. That way
when TX is pushed into the ath taskqueue, there won't be so much latency
in the way of things.
The bigger scale change (which will come much later) is to actually
process the frames in the ath_intr taskqueue but process _frames_ in
the ath driver taskqueue. That would reduce the latency between
processing and requeuing new descriptors. But that'll come later.
The actual work:
* Add ATH_RX_MAX at 128 (static for now);
* break out of the processing loop if npkts reaches ATH_RX_MAX;
* if we processed ATH_RX_MAX or more frames during the processing loop,
immediately reschedule another RX taskqueue run. This will handle
the further frames in the taskqueue.
This should have very minimal impact on the general throughput case,
unless the scheduler is being very very strange or the ath taskqueue
ends up spending a lot of time on non-RX operations (such as TX
completion.)
and Sierra Wireless MC8790V. Also implement the .ucom_poll method.
Note: This makes it possible to use lqr/echo in ppp.conf. And it
resolves ppp hanging during the PPp> phase.
Reviewed by: hps
MFC after: 1 week
- Disable the support for the second channel on twin-channel EISA cards as
the current incarnation can't possibly work correctly (it hasn't worked
since switching to new-bus where new-bus allocates the softc). If anyone
bothers to test this again it can be fixed properly and brought back.
- Use device_printf() and device_get_nameunit() instead of adv_name().
- Remove use of explicit bus space handles and tags.
- Use PCI bus accessors and helper routines rather than accessing
config registers directly.
- Handle failures from adv_attach().
Tested by: no one (hope it works)
virtqueue: Fix non-indirect virtqueues
We really must walk the entire descriptor chain in order
to append the to be free'd chain to the existing free
chain.
Submitted by: Bryan Venteicher (bryanv@daemoninthecloset.org)
Reported by: cognet
This change will enable IPMI access on 5717/5718/5719/5720 and 5761
controllers. Because ASF is not available when APE firmware is
present, bge_allow_asf tunable is ignored when driver detects APE
firmware. Also bge(4) no longer performs two resets(one blind
reset and the other reset with firmware in mind) in device attach.
Now bge(4) performs a reset with enough information in bge_reset().
The APE firmware also needs special handling to make suspend/resume
work but it was not implemented yet.
With this change, bge(4) should work on any 5717/5718/5719/5720
controllers. Special thanks to Mike Hibler at Emulab who setup
remote debugging on Dell R820. Without his help I couldn't be able
to address several issues happened on Dell Rx20 systems. And many
thanks to Broadcom for continuing to support FreeBSD!
Submitted by: davidch (initial version)
H/W donated by: Broadcom
Tested by: many
Tested on: Del R820/R720/R620/R420/R320 and HP Proliant DL 360 G8
handling(jumbo, wire speed etc) in brgphy_reset(). Touching
BRGPHY_MII_AUXCTL register seems to confuse APE firmware such that
it couldn't establish a link.
BGE_PCI_PCISTATE register before issuing global reset. After
issuing reset, it reads BGE_PCI_PCISTATE register again and
compares the saved register value and current value. It was used to
know whether the global reset operation was completed or not.
Unfortunately, this logic caused several issues on recent BCM5717/
5718/5719 and BCM5720 controllers. It seems APE firmware accesses
some registers while global reset is in progress such that reading
BGE_PCI_PCISTATE register after reset does not yield old pre-reset
state value. This resulted in consuming too much time in global
reset and sometimes it couldn't successfully complete reset.
The BGE_MISCCFG_RESET_CORE_CLOCKS of BGE_MISC_CFG register is
self-clearing bit so driver is able to know the reset completion.
But the core-lock reset will disable indirect/flat/standard access
modes such that driver cannot poll BGE_MISCCFG_RESET_CORE_CLOCKS
bit of BGE_MISC_CFG register. So just wait enough time for
core-clock reset to complete.
Data sheet says driver should wait 100us for PCI/PCI-X devices and
100ms for PCIe devices. I chose 1ms for PCI/PCI-X since this value
was used for many years in bge(4). For PCIe devices, use 100ms as
recommended by data sheet.
bge_chipinit() also cleared BGE_MAC_MODE register which shall clear
firmware configured mode information. I think this will result in
losing ASF/IPMI link in device attachment. Let bge_reset() honor
firmware configured BGE_MAC_MODE register and don't announce driver
is UP in bge_reset(). Firmware should have control over driver until
it's fully initialized by driver.
While I'm here, enable workaround for PCI-X BCM5704 A0 in
bge_reset(). This will prevent internal arbitration logic from
switching to the other DMA engine after a retry cycle.
set not-NULL during SIM registration and set to UMASS_GONE on destruction.
Debug messages there look broken for at least 9 years, as they dereference
softc value that was just checked to be equal to NULL.
- Remove magic pointer value UMASS_GONE and use simple NULL instead.
Found by: Clang Static Analyzer
While here, change ISCI_LED to ISCI_PHY since conceptually the hardware
ties the LEDs to a phy and the LEDs for a given phy cannot be controlled
independently.
Submitted by: Paul Maulberger <Paul.Maulberger at gmx.de> (with modifications)
This lets userspace read arbitrary information from the SFP+ modules
etc. on this bus.
Reading multiple bytes in the same transaction isn't possible right now.
I'll update the driver once the chip's firmware supports this.
MFC after: 3 days
that requires 10ms delay after device reset. Because that code was
there from day 1, I guess it was added to give enough settlement
time after updating BGE_MAC_MODE register.
The recommended delay time for BGE_MAC_MODE after updating is 40us
and it was already done in r241219.
The VCPU(Virtual CPU) of BCM5906 is used to provide a mechanism to
control the bootcode execution and to pick up configuration data
stored inside the EEPROM.
The bootcode of BCM5906 will check the BGE_VCPU_STATUS_DRV_RESET
bit to decide which booting procedure to choose.
Data sheet indicates the VCPU of BCM5906 should set
BGE_VCPU_STATUS_DRV_RESET bit *before* VCPU reset or global reset.
water mark to 256 bytes. Otherwise controller will encounter DMA
write under run errors and would result in RX DMA hang. If the
maximum payload size is 128 bytes, the water mark is set to 128
bytes as usual.
While here, set maximum read request size to 2048 for BCM5719/BCM5720.
For other PCIe devices, use 4096. And reprogram the maximum read
request size whenever device reset is performed.
make analog input loopback and dual-stream playback work by enabling
signal mixing by nid 22, as it should be according to info returned by
the CODEC. Otherwise pin nid 28 receives only signal from DAC nid 16.
PR: kern/169124
MFC after: 1 week
the ATH_TXQ_* macros.
* Introduce the new macros;
* rename the TID queue and TID filtered frame queue so the compiler
tells me I'm using the wrong macro.
These should correspond 1:1 to the existing code.
to 32k swamped the controller causing firmware hangs. Instead, round
requests smaller than 64k up to the next power of 2 as a general rule.
To handle the one known special case of a command that accepts a 12k
buffer returning a 24k-ish reply, round requests between 8k and 16k up
to 32k rather than 16k. The result is that commands less than 8k should
now be rounded up to a smaller size (either 4k or 8k) rather than 32k.
PR: kern/155658
Tested by: Andreas Longwitz
MFC after: 1 week
AR5416 and AR9280, but leave it disabled by default.
TL;DR: don't enable this code at all unless you go through the process
of getting the NIC re-certified. This is purely to be used as a
reference and NOT a certified solution by any stretch of the imagination.
The background:
The AR5112 RF synth right up to the AR5133 RF synth (used on the AR5416,
derivative is used for the AR9130/AR9160) only implement down to 2.5MHz
channel spacing in 5GHz. Ie, the RF synth is programmed in steps of 2.5MHz
(or 5, 10, 20MHz.) So they can't represent the quarter rate channels
in the 4.9GHz PSB (which end in xxx2MHz and xxx7MHz). They support
fractional spacing in 2GHz (1MHz spacing) (or things wouldn't work,
right?)
So instead of doing this, the RF synth programming for the AR5112 and
later code will round to the nearest available frequency.
If all NICs were RF5112 or later, they'll inter-operate fine - they all
program the same. (And for reference, only the latest revision of the
RF5111 NICs do it, but the driver doesn't yet implement the programming.)
However:
* The AR5416 programming didn't at all implement the fractional synth
work around as above;
* The AR9280 programming actually programmed the accurate centre frequency
and thus wouldn't inter-operate with the legacy NICs.
So this patch:
* Implements the 4.9GHz PSB fractional synth workaround, exactly as the
RF5112 and later code does;
* Adds a very dirty workaround from me to calculate the same channel
centre "fudge" to the AR9280 code when operating on fractional frequencies
in 5GHz.
HOWEVER however:
It is disabled by default. Since the HAL didn't implement this feature,
it's highly unlikely that the AR5416 and AR928x has been tested in these
centre frequencies. There's a lot of regulatory compliance testing required
before a NIC can have this enabled - checking for centre frequency,
for drift, for synth spurs, for distortion and spectral mask compliance.
There's likely a lot of other things that need testing so please don't
treat this as an exhaustive, authoritative list. There's a perfectly good
process out there to get a NIC certified by your regulatory domain, please
go and engage someone to do that for you and pay the relevant fees.
If a company wishes to grab this work and certify existing 802.11n NICs
for work in these bands then please be my guest. The AR9280 works fine
on the correct fractional synth channels (49x2 and 49x7Mhz) so you don't
need to get certification for that. But the 500KHz offset hack may have
the above issues (spur, distortion, accuracy, etc) so you will need to
get the NIC recertified.
Please note that it's also CARD dependent. Just because the RF synth
will behave correctly doesn't at all mean that the card design will also
behave correctly. So no, I won't enable this by default if someone
verifies a specific AR5416/AR9280 NIC works. Please don't ask.
Tested:
I used the following NICs to do basic interoperability testing at
half and quarter rates. However, I only did very minimal spectrum
analyser testing (mostly "am I about to blow things up" testing;
not "certification ready" testing):
* AR5212 + AR5112 synth
* AR5413 + AR5413 synth
* AR5416 + AR5113 synth
* AR9280
net80211 node power save state.
* Add an ATH_NODE_UNLOCK_ASSERT() check
* Add a new node field - an_is_powersave
* Pause/unpause the queue based on the node state
* Attempt to handle net80211 concurrency issues so the queue
doesn't get paused/unpaused more than once at a time from
the net80211 power save code.
Whilst here (and breaking my usual rule), set CLRDMASK when a queue
is unpaused, regardless of whether the queue has some pending traffic.
This means the first frame from that TID (now or later) will hvae
CLRDMASK set.
Also whilst here, bump the swretrymax counters whenever the
filtered frames code expires a frame. Again, breaking my rule, but
this is just a statistics thing rather than a functional change.
This doesn't fix ps-poll (but it doesn't break it too much worse
than it is at the present) or correcting the TID updates.
That's next on the list.
Tested:
* AR9220 AP (Atheros AP96 reference design)
* Macbook Pro and LG Optimus 1 Android phone, both setting
and clearing power save state (but not using PS-POLL.)
