if the interface has such capability. The interface
capability flag indicates whether such capability
exists. This approach is much more backward compatible.
Physical device driver changes will be part of another
commit.
Also updated the ifconfig utility to show the LINKSTATE
capability if present.
Reviewed by: rwatson, imp, juli
MFC after: 3 days
from IFCAP_VLAN_HWTAGGING. I think some hardwares may be able to
TSO over VLAN without VLAN hardware tagging.
Driver changes and userland support will follow.
Reviewed by: thompsa
renamed. Previously the vlan interfaces would lose their configuration as if
the parent interface had been physically removed. Now vlan interfaces ignore
rename events.
- Add a new ifnet flag (IFF_RENAMING) that is set while an ifnet is being
renamed. This flag can be checked in ifnet departure/arrival event
handlers to treat rename events differently.
- Change the ifnet departure event handler in the if_vlan(4) driver to
ignore departure events due to a trunk interface being renamed.
Reviewed by: brooks, rwatson
MFC after: 1 week
parameter "vnet" when it is created, a new vnet instance will be created
along with the jail. Networks interfaces can be moved between prisons
with an ioctl similar to the one that moves them between vimages.
For now vnets will co-exist under both jails and vimages, but soon
struct vimage will be going away.
Reviewed by: zec, julian
Approved by: bz (mentor)
CPU for too long period than necessary. Additively, interfaces are kept
polled (in the tick) even if no more packets are available.
In order to avoid such situations a new generic mechanism can be
implemented in proactive way, keeping track of the time spent on any
packet and fragmenting the time for any tick, stopping the processing
as soon as possible.
In order to implement such mechanism, the polling handler needs to
change, returning the number of packets processed.
While the intended logic is not part of this patch, the polling KPI is
broken by this commit, adding an int return value and the new flag
IFCAP_POLLING_NOCOUNT (which will signal that the return value is
meaningless for the installed handler and checking should be skipped).
Bump __FreeBSD_version in order to signal such situation.
Reviewed by: emaste
Sponsored by: Sandvine Incorporated
calls if_free(), and remains set if the refcount is elevated. IF_DYING
skips the bit in the if_flags bitmask previously used by IFF_NEEDSGIANT,
so that an MFC can be done without changing which bit is used, as
IFF_NEEDSGIANT is still present in 7.x.
ifnet_byindex_ref() checks for IFF_DYING and returns NULL if it is set,
preventing new references from by acquired by index, preventing
monitoring sysctls from seeing it. Other lookup mechanisms currently
do not check IFF_DYING, but may need to in the future.
MFC after: 3 weeks
support for bpf(4) due to hacks in the Y! tree for a truss32 binary
(since superseded by native support for 32-bit binaries in truss itself).
MFC after: 1 week
from clearing the IFF_NEEDSGIANT flag on Giant-locked interfaces.
In particular, wpa_supplicant was doing this on USB interfaces,
causing panics when Giant-locked code was then called without Giant.
Submitted by: Alexey Popov
Reviewed by: rwatson
MFC after: 3 days
o add IFCAP_TSO[46] for drivers to announce this capability for IPv4 and IPv6
o add CSUM_TSO flag to mbuf pkthdr csum_flags field
o add tso_segsz field to mbuf pkthdr
o enhance ip_output() packet length check to allow for large TSO packets
o extend tcp_maxmtu[46]() with a flag pointer to pass interface capabilities
o adjust all callers of tcp_maxmtu[46]() accordingly
Discussed on: -current, -net
Sponsored by: TCP/IP Optimization Fundraise 2005
order to - for example - apply firewall rules to a whole group of
interfaces. This is required for importing pf from OpenBSD 3.9
Obtained from: OpenBSD (with changes)
Discussed on: -net (back in April)
work by yar, thompsa and myself. The checksum offloading part also involves
work done by Mihail Balikov.
The most important changes:
o Instead of global linked list of all vlan softc use a per-trunk
hash. The size of hash is dynamically adjusted, depending on
number of entries. This changes struct ifnet, replacing counter
of vlans with a pointer to trunk structure. This change is an
improvement for setups with big number of VLANs, several interfaces
and several CPUs. It is a small regression for a setup with a single
VLAN interface.
An alternative to dynamic hash is a per-trunk static array with
4096 entries, which is a compile time option - VLAN_ARRAY. In my
experiments the array is not an improvement, probably because such
a big trunk structure doesn't fit into CPU cache.
o Introduce an UMA zone for VLAN tags. Since drivers depend on it,
the zone is declared in kern_mbuf.c, not in optional vlan(4) driver.
This change is a big improvement for any setup utilizing vlan(4).
o Use rwlock(9) instead of mutex(9) for locking. We are the first
ones to do this! :)
o Some drivers can do hardware VLAN tagging + hardware checksum
offloading. Add an infrastructure for this. Whenever vlan(4) is
attached to a parent or parent configuration is changed, the flags
on vlan(4) interface are updated.
In collaboration with: yar, thompsa
In collaboration with: Mihail Balikov <mihail.balikov interbgc.com>
o Axe poll in trap.
o Axe IFF_POLLING flag from if_flags.
o Rework revision 1.21 (Giant removal), in such a way that
poll_mtx is not dropped during call to polling handler.
This fixes problem with idle polling.
o Make registration and deregistration from polling in a
functional way, insted of next tick/interrupt.
o Obsolete kern.polling.enable. Polling is turned on/off
with ifconfig.
Detailed kern_poll.c changes:
- Remove polling handler flags, introduced in 1.21. The are not
needed now.
- Forget and do not check if_flags, if_capenable and if_drv_flags.
- Call all registered polling handlers unconditionally.
- Do not drop poll_mtx, when entering polling handlers.
- In ether_poll() NET_LOCK_GIANT prior to locking poll_mtx.
- In netisr_poll() axe the block, where polling code asks drivers
to unregister.
- In netisr_poll() and ether_poll() do polling always, if any
handlers are present.
- In ether_poll_[de]register() remove a lot of error hiding code. Assert
that arguments are correct, instead.
- In ether_poll_[de]register() use standard return values in case of
error or success.
- Introduce poll_switch() that is a sysctl handler for kern.polling.enable.
poll_switch() goes through interface list and enabled/disables polling.
A message that kern.polling.enable is deprecated is printed.
Detailed driver changes:
- On attach driver announces IFCAP_POLLING in if_capabilities, but
not in if_capenable.
- On detach driver calls ether_poll_deregister() if polling is enabled.
- In polling handler driver obtains its lock and checks IFF_DRV_RUNNING
flag. If there is no, then unlocks and returns.
- In ioctl handler driver checks for IFCAP_POLLING flag requested to
be set or cleared. Driver first calls ether_poll_[de]register(), then
obtains driver lock and [dis/en]ables interrupts.
- In interrupt handler driver checks IFCAP_POLLING flag in if_capenable.
If present, then returns.This is important to protect from spurious
interrupts.
Reviewed by: ru, sam, jhb
device driver, owned by the network stack, or initialized by the device
driver before attach and read-only from then on.
Not all device drivers and network stack components currently follow
these rules, especially with respect to IFF_UP, and a few exceptions
with IFF_ALLMULTI.
MFC after: 7 days
and move both flags from ifnet.if_flags to ifnet.if_drv_flags, making
and documenting the locking of these flags the responsibility of the
device driver, not the network stack. The flags for these two fields
will be mutually exclusive so that they can be exposed to user space as
though they were stored in the same variable.
Provide #defines to provide the old names #ifndef _KERNEL, so that user
applications (such as ifconfig) can use the old flag names. Using the
old names in a device driver will result in a compile error in order to
help device driver writers adopt the new model.
When exposing the interface flags to user space, via interface ioctls
or routing sockets, or the two fields together. Since the driver flags
cannot currently be set for user space, no new logic is currently
required to handle this case.
Add some assertions that general purpose network stack routines, such
as if_setflags(), are not improperly used on driver-owned flags.
With this change, a large number of very minor network stack races are
closed, subject to correct device driver locking. Most were likely
never triggered.
Driver sweep to follow; many thanks to pjd and bz for the line-by-line
review they gave this patch.
Reviewed by: pjd, bz
MFC after: 7 days
clock time to uptime because wall clock time may go backwards.
This is a change in the API which will impact SNMP agents who are using
ifi_epoch to set RFC2233's ifCounterDiscontinuityTime. None are know to
exist today. This will not impact applications that are using the
<index, epoch> tuple to verify interface uniqueness except that it
eliminates a race which could lead to a false assumption of uniqueness.
Because this is a behavior change, bump __FreeBSD_version.
Discussed with: re (jhb, scottl)
MFC after: 3 days
Pointed out by: pkh (way back at EuroBSDCon)
Pointy hat: brooks
to avoid ABI changes. It is set to the last time the interface
counters were zeroed, currently the time if_attach() was called. It is
intentended to be a valid value for RFC2233's ifCounterDiscontinuityTime
and to make it easier for applications to verify that the interface they
find at a given index is the one that was there last time they looked.
Due to space constraints ifi_epoch is a time_t rather then a struct
timeval. SNMP would prefer higher precision, but this unlikely to be
useful in practice.
increasing it. Add code to ifconfig to use this size to find the
sockaddr_dl after the struct if_data in the routing message. This
allows struct if_data to grow (up to 255 bytes) without breaking
ifconfig.
Submitted by: peter
time the interface counters were zeroed, currently the time if_attach()
was called. It is indentended to be a valid value for RFC2233's
ifCounterDiscontinuityTime and to make it easier for applications to
verify that the interface they find at a given index is the one that was
there last time they looked.
An if_epoch "compatability" macro has not been created as ifi_epoch has
never been a member of struct ifnet.
Approved by: andre, bms, wollman
device drivers to declare that the ifp->if_start() method implemented
by the driver requires Giant in order to operate correctly.
Add a 'struct task' to 'struct ifnet' that can be used to execute a
deferred ifp->if_start() in the event that if_start needs to be called
in a Giant-free environment. To do this, introduce if_start(), a
wrapper function for ifp->if_start(). If the interface can run MPSAFE,
it directly dispatches into the interface start routine. If it can't
run MPSAFE, we're running with debug.mpsafenet != 0, and Giant isn't
currently held, the task is queued to execute in a swi holding Giant
via if_start_deferred().
Modify if_handoff() to use if_start() instead of direct dispatch.
Modify 802.11 to use if_start() instead of direct dispatch.
This is intended to provide increased compatibility for non-MPSAFE
network device drivers in the presence of Giant-free operation via
asynchronous dispatch. However, this commit does not mark any network
interfaces as IFF_NEEDSGIANT.
- Split the code out into if_clone.[ch].
- Locked struct if_clone. [1]
- Add a per-cloner match function rather then simply matching names of
the form <name><unit> and <name>.
- Use the match function to allow creation of <interface>.<tag>
vlan interfaces. The old way is preserved unchanged!
- Also the match function to allow creation of stf(4) interfaces named
stf0, stf, or 6to4. This is the only major user visible change in
that "ifconfig stf" creates the interface stf rather then stf0 and
does not print "stf0" to stdout.
- Allow destroy functions to fail so they can refuse to delete
interfaces. Currently, we forbid the deletion of interfaces which
were created in the init function, particularly lo0, pflog0, and
pfsync0. In the case of lo0 this was a panic implementation so it
does not count as a user visiable change. :-)
- Since most interfaces do not need the new functionality, an family of
wrapper functions, ifc_simple_*(), were created to wrap old style
cloner functions.
- The IF_CLONE_INITIALIZER macro is replaced with a new incompatible
IFC_CLONE_INITIALIZER and ifc_simple consumers use IFC_SIMPLE_DECLARE
instead.
Submitted by: Maurycy Pawlowski-Wieronski <maurycy at fouk.org> [1]
Reviewed by: andre, mlaier
Discussed on: net
o Extend the if_data structure with an ifi_link_state field and
provide the corresponding defines for the valid states.
o The mii_linkchg() callback updates the ifi_link_state field
and calls rt_ifmsg() to notify listeners on the routing socket
in addition to the kqueue KNOTE.
o If vlans are configured on a physical interface notify and update
all vlan pseudo devices as well with the vlan_link_state() callback.
No objections by: sam, wpaul, ru, bms
Brucification by: bde
if_xname, if_dname, and if_dunit. if_xname is the name of the interface
and if_dname/unit are the driver name and instance.
This change paves the way for interface renaming and enhanced pseudo
device creation and configuration symantics.
Approved By: re (in principle)
Reviewed By: njl, imp
Tested On: i386, amd64, sparc64
Obtained From: NetBSD (if_xname)
header (details on how the visibility conditionals work are available
in <sys/cdefs.h>). Use standard types instead of BSD specific ones,
so that this header compiles in the standards case (specifically this
means changing `u_int' to `unsigned int').
Setting this flag on an ethernet interface blocks transmission of packets
and discards incoming packets after BPF processing.
This is useful if you want to monitor network trafic but not interact
with the network in question.
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