controller to perform MDIO type accesses to a remote transceiver
using message pages defined through MRBE(multirate backplane
ethernet). It's used in blade systems(e.g Dell Blade m610) which
are connected to pass-through blades rather than traditional
switches.
This change directly manipulates firmware's mailboxes to control
remote PHY such that it does not use mii(4). Alternatively, as
David said, it could be implemented in brgphy(4) by creating a fake
PHY and let brgphy(4) do necessary mii accesses and bce(4) can
implement mailbox accesses based on the type of brgphy(4)'s mii
accesses. Personally, I think it would make brgphy(4) hard to
maintain since it would have to access many bce(4) registers in
brgphy(4). Given that there are users who are suffering from lack
of remote PHY support, it would be better to get working system
rather than waiting for complete/perfect implementation.
Tested by: Jan Winter ( jan.winter <> kantarmedia dot de )
Reviewed by: davidch (initial version)
MFC after: 2 weeks
r228476 fixed superfluous link UP/DOWN messages but broke IPMI
access during boot. It's not clear why r228476 breaks IPMI and
should be revisited.
Reported by: Paul Guyot <paulguyot <> ieee dot org >
MFC after: 1 week
messages.
o Add check for actually resolved speed in miibus_statchg callback
instead of blindly reprogramming BCE_EMAC_MODE register. The
callback may be called multiple times(e.g. link UP, link
transition, auto-negotiate complete etc) while auto-negotiation
is in progress. All unresolved link state changes are ignored
now and setting BCE_EMAC_MODE after link establishment is done
once.
o bce(4) is careful enough not to drive MII_TICK if driver got a
valid link. To detect lost link, bce(4) relied on link state
change interrupt and if driver see the interrupt, it forced to
drive MII_TICK by calling bce_tick() in interrupt handler.
Because bce(4) generates multiple link state change interrupts
while auto-negotiation is in progress, bce_tick() would be
called multiple times and this resulted in generating multiple
link UP/DOWN messages.
With this change, bce_tick() is not called in interrupt handler
anymore such that miibus_statchg callback handles link state
changes with consistent manner.
Reviewed by: davidch
remove explicit checks for BCM5716.
The BCM5709 and BCM5716 chips are virtually indistinguishable by
software except for the PCI device ID. The two chips differ in
that BCM5709 supports TCP/IP and iSCSI offload in Windows while
the BCM5716 doesn't.
While I'm here remove now unused definition of BCE_CHIP_NUM_5716
and BCE_CHIP_ID_5716_C0.
Reported by: sbruno
Reviewed by: davidch
Tested by: davidch
dev.bce.<unit>.nvram_dump
Add the capability to write the complete contents of the NVRAM via sysctl
dev.bce.<unit>.nvram_write
These are only available if the kernel option BCE_DEBUG is enabled.
The nvram_write sysctl also requires the kernel option
BCE_NVRAM_WRITE_SUPPORT to be enabled. These are to be used at your
own caution. Since the MAC addresses are stored in the NVRAM, if you
dump one NIC and restore it on another NIC the destination NIC's
MAC addresses will not be preserved. A tool can be made using these
sysctl's to manage the on-chip firmware.
Reviewed by: davidch, yongari
- Print device details only when verbose boot is enabled.
- Add debug output for shared memory access.
- Add debug statistics (checksum offload & VLAN frame counters).
- Modify TX path to update consumer index for each frame completed
rather than updating the consumer index only once for a group of
frames to improve small packet performance.
- Print driver/firmware pulse messages only when verbose boot
is enabled.
- Add debug sysctl to clear statistics.
- Fix more style(9) violations.
MFC after: 2 weeks
- Added some new debug helper routines to systcl.
- Fixed many of the style(9) violations that have crept into the code
due to my use of a "smart" editor.
MFC after: 2 weeks
frames to be accepted while the driver is resetting the hardware.
This failure is generally observed when broadcast frames are received
during driver load and will generate "Unable to write CTX memory"
errors.
- Small changes to driver flags display.
splitting in bce(4) instead of (ab)using ZERO_COPY_SOCKETS that was not
propagated into if_bce.c anyway. It is disabled by default.
Approved by: davidch
MFC after: 3 days
- Added missing firmware for 5709 A1 controllers.
- Changed some debug statistic variable names to be more consistent.
Submitted by: davidch
MFC after: Two weeks
and ifnet functions
- add memory barriers to <machine/atomic.h>
- update drivers to only conditionally define their own
- add lockless producer / consumer ring buffer
- remove ring buffer implementation from cxgb and update its callers
- add if_transmit(struct ifnet *ifp, struct mbuf *m) to ifnet to
allow drivers to efficiently manage multiple hardware queues
(i.e. not serialize all packets through one ifq)
- expose if_qflush to allow drivers to flush any driver managed queues
This work was supported by Bitgravity Inc. and Chelsio Inc.
- Added some additional code for debug builds.
- Fixed a problem printing physical memory on 64bit system during debugging.
- Modified some of the context memory and mailbox register names to more
clearly distinguish their use.
- Added memory barriers for Intel CPUs when accessing host memory data
structures which are written by hardware.
MFC after: Two weeks.
- Fixed a problem on i386 architecture when using split header/jumbo frame
firmware caused by hardware alignment requirements.
- Added #define BCE_USE_SPLIT_HEADER to allow the feature to be enabled/
disabled. Enabled by default.
PR: kern/123696
MFC after: 2 weeks
TX traffic to sit in the send chain until a received packet kick
started the interrupt handler. This would cause extremely slow
performance when used with NFS over UDP.
- Removed untested polling code.
- Updated copyright year in the file header.
- Removed inadvertent ^M's created by DOS text editor.
MFC after: 2 weeks
- Added loose RX MTU functionality to allow frames larger than 1500 bytes
to be accepted even though the interface MTU is set to 1500.
- Implemented new TCP header splitting/jumbo frame support which uses
two chains for receive traffic rather than the original single recevie
chain.
- Added additional debug support code.
errors (especially when jumbo frames are enabled or in low memory systems)
because the RX chain was corrupted when an mbuf was mapped to an unexpected
number of buffers.
- Fixed a problem that would cause kernel panics when an excessively
fragmented TX mbuf couldn't be defragmented and was released by
bce_tx_encap().
Approved by: re(hrs)
MFC after: 7 days
- Updated firmware to latest release (v3.4.8) to fix TSO + jumbo frame lockup
- Added MSI (hw.bce.msi_enable) and TSO (hw.bce.tso_enable) sysctls
- Fixed kernel panic when MSI is used and module is unloaded
- Added several new debug routines
- Removed slack space for RX/TX chains since it only covers sloppy coding
- Fixed a potential problem when programming jumbo MTU size in hardware
- Various other comment changes
MFC after: 4 weeks
Updated copyright date to 2007.
Tested with BCM5706 A3.
Added ID for BCM5708 B2.
Removed unused driver version string.
Modified BCE_PRINTF macro to automatically fill-in the sc pointer.
Fixed a kernel panic when the driver was loaded as a module from the
command-line because the MII bus pointer was null (i.e. the MII bus
hadn't been enumerated yet).
Added fix proposed by Vladimir Ivanov <wawa@yandex-team.ru> to prevent
driver state corruption when releasing the lock during the ISR in
bce_rx_intr() to send packets up the stack.
Added new TX chain and register read sysctl interfaces for debugging.
Cleaned up formatting for various other debug routines.
Added a new statistic maintained by firmware which tracks the number
of received packets dropped because no receive buffers are available.
that piggybacks on bce_tick() callout.
- Instead of unconditionally resetting the controller, try to
skip the reset in case we got a pause frame, like em(4) did.
- Lock bce_tick() using callout_init_mtx().
Discussed with/Reviewed by: glebius, scottl, davidch
accidentally truncating off the VLAN tag field in the TX descriptor. Fix
this by splitting up the vlan_tag and flags fields into separate fields,
and handling them appropriately.
Sponsored by: Ironport
MFC After: 3 days
and TCP checksum offloading fine, it only has a problem with IP checksums on
IP fragments.. Barring a fix or workaround available from the hardware, the
real solution would be to have finer grained control in the stack over what
can and cannot be assisted in hardware.
- Use bus_dmamap_load_mbuf_sg() to eliminate the need for the callback and
all of the extra bookkeeping associated with it.
- Eliminate the bce_dmamap_arg structure and streamline the memory allocation
routines to not need it. This does change some of the debugging messages.
- Refactor the loop that fills the buffer descriptor so that it can be done
with a single set of logic in a single loop instead of two sets of logic.
- Eliminate the need to cache and pass descriptor indexes between the start
loop and the encap function.
- Change the start loop to always check the ifnet sendq for more work.
This significantly helps the driver withstand large UDP workloads, though
it's still not perfect. I suspect the remaining work lies with handling
the OACTIVE flag, and also in possibly streamlining the interrupt handler
some. It is, however, nearly on par with the other popular gigabit drivers
in terms of stability now.
