- bear with me, there are lots of white space changes, I would not
do them, but I am a mere consumer of this stuff and if these drivers
are to stay in shape they need to be taken.
em driver changes: support for the new i217/i218 interfaces
igb driver changes:
- TX mq start has a quick turnaround to the stack
- Link/media handling improvement
- When link status changes happen the current flow control state
will now be displayed.
- A few white space/style changes.
lem driver changes:
- the shared code uncovered a bogus write to the RLPML register
(which does not exist in this hardware) in the vlan code,this
is removed.
support of new deltas for both em and igb drivers.
Note that I am not able to track all the bugs fixed in
this code, I am a consumer of it as a component of my
core drivers. It is important to keep the FreeBSD drivers
up to date with it however.
One important note is there is a key fix for 82574 in this
update. Also, there are lots of white space changes, I am
not happy about them but have no control over it :)
- this also includes virtualization support on these devices
Correct some vlan issues we were seeing in test, jumbo frames on vlans
did not work correctly, this was all due to confused logic around HW
filters, the new code should now work for all uses.
Important fix: when mbuf resources are depeleted, it was possible to
completely empty the RX ring, and then the RX engine would stall
forever. This is fixed by a flag being set whenever the refresh code
fails due to an mbuf shortage, also the local timer now makes sure
that all queues get an interrupt when it runs, the interrupt code
will then always call rxeof, and in that routine the first thing done
is now to check the refresh flag and call refresh_mbufs. This has been
verified to fix this type 'hang'. Similar code will follow in the other
drivers.
Finally, sync up shared code for the I350 support.
Thanks to everyone that has been reporting issues, and helping in the
debug/test process!!
- Sync shared code with Intel internal
- New client chipset support added
- em driver - fixes to 82574, limit queues to 1 but use MSIX
- em driver - large changes in TX checksum offload and tso
code, thanks to yongari.
- some small changes for watchdog issues.
- igb driver - local timer watchdog code was missing locking
this and a couple other watchdog related fixes.
- bug in rx discard found by Andrew Boyer, check for null pointer
MFC: a week
will sometimes fail to initialize problem due to a lock
contention with management hardware. However, in order to
deliver that fix it was necessary to take a shared code
update as a whole, and this required scattered changes in
the core code to be compatible.
The em driver now has VLAN HW support added as the igb
driver had previously.
MFC after: ASAP - in time for 7.1 RELEASE
proved to be necessary to make the static drivers work
in EITHER/OR or BOTH configurations. Modules will still
build in sys/modules/igb or em as before.
This also updates the igb driver for support for the 82576
adapter, adds shared code fixes, and etc....
MFC after: ASAP
