o Header file cleanup.
o bus_dma(9) conversion.
- Removed all consumers of vtophys(9) and converted to use
bus_dma(9).
- 64bit DMA support was disabled because DP83821 is not capable
of handling the DMA request. 64bit DMA request on DP83820
requires different descriptor structures and it's hard to
dynamically change descriptor format at run time so I disabled
it. Note, this is the same behavior as previous one but
previously nge(4) didn't explicitly disable 64bit mode on
DP83820.
- Added Tx/Rx descriptor ring alignment requirements(8 bytes
alignment).
- Limit maximum number of Tx DMA segments to 16. In fact,
controller does not seem to have limitations on number of Tx
DMA segments but 16 should be enough for most cases and
m_collapse(9) will handle highly fragmented frames without
consuming a lot of CPU cycles.
- Added Rx buffer alignment requirements(8 bytes alignment). This
means driver should fixup received frames to align on 16bits
boundary on strict-alignment architectures.
- Nuked driver private data structure in descriptor ring.
- Added endianness support code in Tx/Rx descriptor access.
o Prefer faster memory mapped register access to I/O mapped access.
Added fall-back mechanism to use alternative register access.
The hardware supports both memory and I/O mapped access.
o Added suspend/resume methods but it wasn't tested as controller I
have does not support PCI PME.
o Removed swap argument in nge_read_eeprom() since endianness
should be handled after reading EEPROM.
o Implemented experimental 802.3x full-duplex flow-control. ATM
it was commented out but will be activated after we have generic
flow-control framework in mii(4) layer.
o Rearranged promiscuous mode settings and simplified logic.
o Always disable Rx filter prior to changing Rx filter functions as
indicated in DP83820/DP83821 datasheet.
o Added an explicit DELAY in timeout loop of nge_reset().
o Added a sysctl variable dev.nge.%d.int_holdoff to control
interrupt moderation. Valid ranges are 1 to 255(default 1) in
units of 100us. The actual delivery of interrupt would be delayed
based on the sysctl value. The interface has to be brought down
and up again before a change takes effect. With proper tuning
value, users do not need to resort to polling(4) anymore.
o Added ALTQ(4) support.
o Added missing IFCAP_VLAN_HWCSUM as nge(4) can offload Tx/Rx
checksum calculation on VLAN tagged frames as well as VLAN tag
insertion/stripping. Also add IFCAP_VLAN_MTU capability as nge(4)
can handle VLAN tagged oversized frames.
o Fixed media header length for VLAN.
o Rearranged nge_detach routine such that it's now used for general
clean-up routine.
o Enabled MWI.
o Accessing EEPROM takes very long time so read 6 bytes ethernet
address with one call instead of 3 separate accesses.
o Don't set if_mtu in device attach, it's already set in
ether_ifattach().
o Don't do any special things for TBI interface. Remove TBI
specific media handling in the driver and have gentbi(4) handle
it. Add glue code to read/write TBI PHY registers in miibus
method. This change removes a lot of PHY handling code in driver
and now its functionality is handled by mii(4).
o Alignment fixup code is now applied only for strict-alignment
architectures. Previously the code was applied for all
architectures except i386. With this change amd64 will get
instant Rx performance boost.
o When driver fails to allocate a new mbuf, update if_qdrops so
users can see what was wrong in Rx path.
o Added a workaround for a hardware bug which resulted in short
VLAN tagged frames(e.g. ARP) was rejected as if runt frame was
received. With this workaround nge(4) now accepts the short VLAN
tagged frame and nge(4) can take full advantage of hardware VLAN
tag stripping. I have no idea how this bug wasn't known so far,
without the workaround nge(4) may never work on VLAN
environments.
o Fixed Rx checksum offload logic such that it now honors active
interface capability configured with ifconfig(8).
o In nge_start()/nge_txencap(), always leave at least one free
descriptor as indicated in datasheet. Without this the hardware
would be confused with ring descriptor structure(e.g. no clue
for the end of descriptor ring).
o Removed dead-code that checks interrupts on PHY hardware. The
code was designed to detect link state changes but it was
disabled as driving nge_tick clock would break auto-negotiation
timer. This code is no longer needed as nge(4) now uses mii(4)
and link state change handling is done with mii callback.
o Rearranged ethernet address programming logic such that it works
on strict-alignment architectures.
o Added IFCAP_VLAN_HWTAGGING/IFCAP_VLAN_HWCSUM handler in
nge_ioctl() such that the functionality is configurable with
ifconfig(8). DP83820/DP83821 can do checksum offload for VLAN
tagged frames so enable Tx/Rx checksum offload for VLAN
interfaces.
o Simplified IFCAP_POLLING selection logic in nge_ioctl().
o Fixed module unload panic when bpf listeners are active.
o Tx/Rx descriptor ring address uses 64bit DMA address for
readability. High address part of DMA would be 0 as nge(4)
disabled 64bit DMA transfers so it's ok for DP83821.
o Removed volatile keyword in softc as bus_dmamap_sync(9) should
take care of this.
o Removed extra driver private structures in descriptor ring. These
extra elements are not part of descriptor structure. Embedding
private driver structure into descriptor ring is not good idea
as its size may be different on 32bit/64bit architectures.
o Added miibus_linkchg method handler to catch link state changes.
o Removed unneeded nge_ifmedia in softc. All TBI access is handled
in gentbi(4). There is no difference between TBI and non-TBI case
now.
o Removed "gigabit link up" message handling in nge_tick. Link
state change notification is already performed by mii(4) and
checking link state by accessing PHY registers in periodic timer
handler of driver is wrong. All link state and speed/duplex
monitoring should be handled in PHY driver.
o Use our own timer for watchdog instead of if_watchdog/if_timer
interface.
o Added hardware MAC statistics counter, users canget current MAC
statistics from dev.nge.%d.stats sysctl node(%d is unit number of
a device).
o Removed unused macros, NGE_LASTDESC, NGE_MODE, NGE_OWNDESC,
NGE_RXBYTES.
o Increased number of Tx/Rx descriptors from 128 to 256. From my
experience on gigabit ethernet controllers, number of descriptors
should be 256 or higher to get an optimal performance on gigabit
link.
o Increased jumbo frame length to 9022 bytes to cope with other
gigabit ethernet drivers. Experimentation shows no problems with
9022 bytes.
o Removed unused member variables in softc.
o Switched from bus_space_{read|write}_4 to bus_{read|write}_4.
o Added support for WOL.
if_watchdog, etc., or in functions used only in these methods.
In all other functions in the driver use device_printf().
- Use __func__ instead of typing function name.
Submitted by: Alex Lyashkov <umka sevcity.net>
- Use device_printf() and if_printf() and remove nge_unit.
- Use callout_init_mtx() and remove nge_tick_locked() as nge_tick() is now
always called with the driver lock held.
- Use M_ZERO to contigmalloc() when allocating nge_ldata. It was possible
for the random garbage to be used in certain cases otherwise.
- Cleanup attach error handling including no longer leaking nge_ldata.
- Add locking to the ifmedia callouts.
- Lock accesses to if_hwassist and if_capenable in nge_ioctl().
Submitted by: Yuriy N. Shkandybin jura at networks dot ru (1, 3, 4)
Tested by: Yuriy N. Shkandybin jura at networks dot ru
MFC after: 3 days
struct ifnet or the layer 2 common structure it was embedded in have
been replaced with a struct ifnet pointer to be filled by a call to the
new function, if_alloc(). The layer 2 common structure is also allocated
via if_alloc() based on the interface type. It is hung off the new
struct ifnet member, if_l2com.
This change removes the size of these structures from the kernel ABI and
will allow us to better manage them as interfaces come and go.
Other changes of note:
- Struct arpcom is no longer referenced in normal interface code.
Instead the Ethernet address is accessed via the IFP2ENADDR() macro.
To enforce this ac_enaddr has been renamed to _ac_enaddr.
- The second argument to ether_ifattach is now always the mac address
from driver private storage rather than sometimes being ac_enaddr.
Reviewed by: sobomax, sam
problems:
1) Add locking for SMP, code provided by Alan Cox
2) While testing Alan's patches, I observed serious problems with
the jumbo buffer allocation code (machine crashed twice), so I gutted
it and rewrote the receive handler to use multiple chained descriptors.
Each RX descriptor gets a single 2K cluster, and the chip will fill in
as many as it needs to hold the complete packet.
User reports that this corrects the data corruption issues previously
observed and discussed on -current.
Note that this driver still needs to be hit with the busdma stick.
I intend to inflict said beating in the near future.
MFC after: 1 week
o don't strip the Ethernet header from inbound packets; pass packets
up the stack intact (required significant changes to some drivers)
o reference common definitions in net/ethernet.h (e.g. ETHER_ALIGN)
o track ether_ifattach/ether_ifdetach API changes
o track bpf changes (use BPF_TAP and BPF_MTAP)
o track vlan changes (ifnet capabilities, revised processing scheme, etc.)
o use if_input to pass packets "up"
o call ether_ioctl for default handling of ioctls
Reviewed by: many
Approved by: re
FIFO or the in-RAM descriptors it will switch to RX_IDLE from where it
is not restarted.
We used to deal with RX_IDLE by doing a total reinit but this lost
our link and caused a potential 30sec autonegotiation against
switches. This was changed to a less heavyhanded approach, but this
failed to restart the receiver it it were in the RX_IDLE state.
This change adds the RX_IDLE and the RX_FIFO_OFLOW conditions as
triggers for interrupts and receive side processing, and restarts
the receiver when it is RX_IDLE.
Remove the #ifdef notyet'ed nge_rxeoc() function.
Sponsored by: Cybercity Internet, Denmark.
MFC after: 7 days
of the rxeoc handler for now. The rxeoc handler will reset the link,
and the NatSemi chip's RX FIFO will overflow on a 32-bit bus once you
start hitting it with 500Mbps or more of traffic.
Also increase the size of the RX ring to 128 descriptors (was 64).
converting from the old external mbuf buffer code to the new (with the
MEXTADD() macro). Also free free list memory correctly in
foo_free_jumbo_mem() routines: grab the head of the list, then
remove it, _then_ free() it.
This fixes the memory corruption problem I've been chasing in the level 1
driver.
use of the extsts field in DMA descriptors. We need this to tell the chip
to calculate TCP/IP checksums in hardware on a per-packet basis.
- Fix the unions in DMA descriptor structures. Breakage on alpha led
me to realize I'd done it wrong the first time.
be unions with enough padding to make sure they always end up being
a multiple of 8 bytes in size, since the 83820/83821 chips require
descriptors to be aligned on 64-bit boundaries. I happened to get it
right for the 32-bit descriptor/x86 case, but botched everything else.
Things should work properle on 32-bit/64-bit platforms now.
Note that the 64-bit descriptor format isn't being used currently.
and DP83821 gigabit ethernet MAC chips and the NatSemi DP83861 10/100/1000
copper PHY. There are a whole bunch of very low cost cards available with
this chipset selling for $150USD or less. This includes the SMC9462TX,
D-Link DGE-500T, Asante GigaNIX 1000TA and 1000TPC, and a couple cards
from Addtron.
This chip supports TCP/IP checksum offload, VLAN tagging/insertion.
2048-bit multicast filter, jumbograms and has 8K TX and 32K RX FIFOs.
I have not done serious performance testing with this driver. I know
it works, and I want it under CVS control so I can keep tabs on it.
Note that there's no serious mutex stuff in here yet either: I need
to talk more with jhb to figure out the right way to do this. That
said, I don't think there will be any problems.
This driver should also work on the alpha. It's not turned on in
GENERIC.
