- Re-enable TSO. This was broken previously due to CSUM_TSO clearing the
CSUM_TCP flag, so our checksum flags were incorrectly set going to the
netback driver. That was fixed in r206844 in tcp_output.c, so we can
turn TSO back on here.
- Fix the way transmit slots are calculated, so that we can't overfill
the ring.
- Avoid sending packets with more fragments/segments than netback can
handle. The Linux netback code can only handle packets of
MAX_SKB_FRAGS, which turns out to be 18 on machines with 4K pages. We
can easily generate packets with 32 or so fragments with TSO turned on.
Right now the solution is just to drop the packets (since netback
doesn't seem to handle it gracefully), but we should come up with a way
to allow a driver to tell the TCP stack the maximum number of fragments
it can handle in a single packet.
- Fix the way the consumer is tracked in the receive path. It could get
out of sync fairly easily.
- Use standard Xen ring macros to make it clearer how netfront is using
the rings.
- Get rid of Linux-ish negative errno return values.
- Added more documentation to the driver.
- Refactored code to make it easier to read.
- Some other minor fixes.
Reviewed by: gibbs
Reviewed by: gibbs
Sponsored by: Spectra Logic
MFC after: 7 days
to dequeue a packet.
The tx path was trying to ensure that enough Xenbus TX ring slots existed but
it didn't check to see whether the mbuf TX ring slots were also available.
They get freed in xn_txeof() which occurs after transmission, rather than earlier
on in the process. (The same happens under Linux too.)
Due to whatever reason (CPU use, scheduling, memory constraints, whatever) the
mbuf TX ring may not have enough slots free and would allocate slot 0. This is
used as the freelist head pointer to represent "free" mbuf TX ring slots; setting
this to an actual mbuf value rather than an id crashes the code.
This commit introduces some basic code to track the TX mbuf ring use and then
(hopefully!) ensures that enough slots are free in said TX mbuf ring before it
enters the actual work loop.
A few notes:
* Similar logic needs to be introduced to check there are enough actual slots
available in the xenbuf TX ring. There's some logic which is invoked earlier
but it doesn't hard-check against the number of available ring slots.
Its trivial to do; I'll do it in a subsequent commit.
* As I've now commented in the source, it is likely possible to deadlock the
driver under certain conditions where the rings aren't receiving any changes
(which I should enumerate) and thus Xen doesn't send any further software
interrupts. I need to make sure that the timer(s) are running right and
the queues are periodically kicked.
PR: 134926
Slot 0 must always remain "free" and be a pointer to the first free entry in the
mbuf descriptor list. It is thus an error to have code allocate or push slot 0
back into the list.
Log:
- merge in latest xenbus from dfr's xenhvm
- fix race condition in xs_read_reply by converting tsleep to mtx_sleep
Log:
unmask evtchn in bind_{virq, ipi}_to_irq
Log:
- remove code for handling case of not being able to sleep
- eliminate tsleep - make sleeps atomic
