My preivous logic was a bit wrong. This caused transmissions that failed due
to a mix of short and long retries to count intermediate rates as OK if the
LONG retry count indicated some retries had made it to this intermediate rate,
but the SHORT retry count was the one that caused the whole transmit to fail.
Now status is passed in again - and this is the status for the whole transmission -
and then update_stats() does some quick math to see if the current transmission
series hit its long retry count or not before updating things as a success
or failure.
into account and remove the requirement that the MCS rate is "higher" if we're
considering a new rate.
Ok, another fun one.
* In order for reliable non-software retried higher MCS rates, the TX schedules
(inconsistently!) use hard-coded lower rates at the end of the schedule.
Now, hard-coded is a problem because (a) it means that aggregate formation
is limited by the SLOWEST rate, so I never formed large AMDU frames for
3 stream rates, and (b) if the AP disables lower rates as base rates, it
complains about "unknown rix" every frame you transmit at that rate.
So, for now just disable the third and fourth schedule entry for AMPDUs.
Now I'm forming 32k and 64k aggregates for the higher density MCS rates
much more reliably.
It would be much nicer if the rate schedule stuff wasn't fixed but instead
I'd just populate ath_rc_series[] when I fetch the rates. This is all a
holdover of ye olde pre-11n stuff and I really just need to nuke it.
But for now, ye hack.
* The check for "is this MCS rate better" based on MCS itself is just garbage.
It meant things like going MCS0->7 would be fine, and say 0->8->16 is fine,
(as they're equivalent encoding but 1,2,3 spatial streams), BUT it meant
going something like MCS7->11 would fail even though it's likely that
MCS11 would just be better, both for EWMA/BER and throughput.
So for now just use the average tx time. The "right" way for this comparison
would be to compare PHY bitrates rather than MCS / rate indexes, but I'm not
yet there. The bit rates ARE available in the PHY index, but honestly
I have a lot of other cleaning up to here before I think about that.
* Don't include the RTS/CTS retry count (and thus time) into the average tx time
caluation. It just makes temporarily failures make the rate look bad by
QUITE A LOT, as RTS/CTS exchanges are (a) long, and (b) mostly irrelevant
to the actual rate being tried. If we keep hitting RTS/CTS failures then
there's something ELSE wrong on the channel, not our selected rate.
* Fix formatting, cause reasons;
* Put back the "and the chosen rate is within 90% of the current rate" logic;
* Ensure the best rate and the current rate aren't the same; this ...
* ... fixes the packets_since_switch[] tracking to actually conut how many
frames since the rate switched, so now I know how stable stuff is; and
* Ensure that MCS can go up to a higher MCS at this or any other spatial stream.
My previous quick hack attempt was doing > rather than >= so you had to go
to both a higher root MCS rate (0..7) and spatial stream. Eg, you couldn't
go from MCS0 (1ss) to MCS8 (2ss) this way.
The best rate and switching rate logic still have a bunch more work to do
because they're still quite touchy when it comes to average tx time but at least
now it's choosing higher rates correctly when it wants to try a higher rate.
Tested:
* AR9380, STA mode
Some laptops don't send ACPI "lid status changed" notifications upon
opening the lid if the system was currently suspended. In r358219
this was partially fixed, updating the "lid_status" variable upon
resume even if there is no "status changed" notification from ACPI.
Unfortunately the fix in r358219 did not include notifying userland
via devd; this causes problems on systems using upowerd (e.g. KDE),
since upowerd remembers the most recent devd notification about the
lid status rather than querying the sysctl to get the current status.
This showed up as two symptoms when KDE's "When laptop lid closed: Sleep"
option is set:
1. 50% of the time, closing the lid would not trigger S3 sleep.
2. 50% of the time, plugging/unplugging AC power would trigger S3 sleep.
PR: 246477
MFC after: 3 days
My initial rate control code was .. suboptimal. I wanted to at least get MCS
rates sent, but it didn't do anywhere near enough to handle low signal level links
or remotely keep accurate statistics.
So, 8 years later, here's what I should've done back then.
* Firstly, I wasn't at all tracking packet sizes other than the two buckets
(250 and 1600 bytes.) So, extend it to include 4096, 8192, 16384, 32768 and
65536. I may go add 2048 at some point if I find it's useful.
This is important for a few reasons. First, when forming A-MPDU or AMSDU
aggregates the frame sizes are larger, and thus the TX time calculation
is woefully, increasingly wrong. Secondly, the behaviour of 802.11 channels
isn't some fixed thing, both due to channel conditions and radios themselves.
Notably, there was some observations done a few years ago on 11n chipsets
which noticed longer aggregates showed an increase in failed A-MPDU sub-frame
reception as you got further along in the transmit time. It could be due to
a variety of things - transmitter linearity, channel conditions changing,
frequency/phase drift, etc - but the observation was to potentially form
shorter aggregates to improve BER.
* .. and then modify the ath TX path to report the length of the aggregate sent,
so as the statistics kept would line up with the correct bucket.
* Then on the rate control look-up side - i was also only using the first frame
length for an A-MPDU rate control lookup which isn't good enough here.
So, add a new method that walks the TID software queue for that node to
find out what the likely length of data available is. It isn't ALL of the
data in the queue because we'll only ever send enough data to fit inside the
block-ack window, so limit how many bytes we return to roughly what ath_tx_form_aggr()
would do.
* .. and cache that in the first ath_buf in the aggregate so it and the eventual
AMPDU length can be returned to the rate control code.
* THEN, modify the rate control code to look at them both when deciding which bucket
to attribute the sent frame on. I'm erring on the side of caution and using the
size bucket that the lookup is based on.
Ok, so now the rate lookups and statistics are "more correct". However, MCS rates
are not the same as 11abg rates in that they're not a monotonically incrementing
set of faster rates and you can't assume that just because a given MCS rate fails,
the next higher one wouldn't work better or be a lower average tx time.
So, I had to do a bunch of surgery to the best rate and sample rate math.
This is the bit that's a WIP.
* First, simplify the statistics updates (update_stats()) to do a single pass on
all rates.
* Next, make sure that each rate average tx time is updated based on /its/ failure/success.
Eg if you sent a frame with { MCS15, MCS12, MCS8 } and MCS8 succeeded, MCS15 and MCS
12 would have their average tx time updated for /their/ part of the transmission,
not the whole transmission.
* Next, EWMA wasn't being fully calculated based on the /failures/ in each of the
rate attempts. So, if MCS15, MCS12 failed above but MCS8 didn't, then ensure
that the statistics noted that /all/ subframes failed at those rates, rather than
the eventual set of transmitted/sent frames. This ensures the EWMA /and/ average
TX time are updated correctly.
* When picking a sample rate and initial rate, probe rates aroud the current MCS
but limit it to MCS0..7 /for all spatial streams/, rather than doing crazy things
like hitting MCS7 and then probing MCS8 - MCS8 is basically MCS0 but two spatial
streams. It's a /lot/ slower than MCS7. Also, the reverse is true - if we're at
MCS8 then don't probe MCS7 as part of it, it's not likely to succeed.
* Fix bugs in pick_best_rate() where I was /immediately/ choosing the highest MCS
rate if there weren't any frames yet transmitted. I was defaulting to 25% EWMA and
.. then each comparison would accept the higher rate. Just skip those; sampling
will fill in the details.
So, this seems to work a lot better. It's not perfect; I'm still seeing a lot of
instability around higher MCS rates because there are bursts of loss/retransmissions
that aren't /too/ bad. But i'll keep iterating over this and tidying up my hacks.
Ok, so why this still something I'm poking at? rather than porting minstrel_ht?
ath_rate_sample tries to minimise airtime, not maximise throughput. I have
extended it with an EWMA based on sub-frame success/failures - high MCS rates
that have partially successful receptions still show super short average frame
times, but a /lot/ of retransmits have to happen for that to work.
So for MCS rates I also track this EWMA and ensure that the rates I'm choosing
don't have super crappy packet failures. I don't mind not getting lower
peak throughput versus minstrel_ht; instead I want to see if I can make "minimise
airtime" work well.
Tested:
* AR9380, STA mode
* AR9344, STA mode
* AR9580, STA/AP mode
This function is responsible for setting pc_domain in each pcpu
structure. Call it from the main function that starts APs, rather than
a separate SYSINIT. This makes it easier to close the window where
UMA's per-CPU slab allocator may be called while pc_domain is
uninitialized. In particular, the allocator uses pc_domain to allocate
domain-local pages, so allocations before this point end up using domain
0 for everything.
Reviewed by: kib
MFC after: 1 week
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D24757
__builtin_unreachable doesn't raise any compile-time warnings/errors on its
own, so problems with its usage can't be easily detected. While it would be
nice for this situation to change and compilers to at least add a warning
for trivial cases where local state means the instruction can't be reached,
this isn't the case at the moment and likely will not happen.
This commit adds an __assert_unreachable, whose intent is incredibly clear:
it asserts that this instruction is unreachable. On INVARIANTS builds, it's
a panic(), and on non-INVARIANTS it expands to __unreachable().
Existing users of __unreachable() are converted to __assert_unreachable,
to improve debuggability if this assumption is violated.
Reviewed by: mjg
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D23793
So, replicate the ATI vendor snoop configuration for the AMD vendor.
I think that this should fix a number of cases where users currently
have to resort to polling or disabling MSI.
MFC after: 1 week
Right now (well, since I did this in 2011/2012) the rate control code
makes some super bad choices for 11n aggregates/rates, and it tracks
statistics even more questionably.
It's been long enough and I'm now trying to use it again daily, so let's
start by:
* telling the rate control code if it's an aggregate or not;
* being clearer about the TID - yes it can be extracted from the
ath_buf but this way it can be overridden by the caller without
changing the TID itself.
(This is for doing experiments with voice/video QoS at some point..)
* Return an optional field to limit how long the aggregate is in
microseconds. Right now the rate control code supplies a rate table
and the ath aggr form code will look at the rate table and limit
the aggregate size to 4ms at the slowest rate. Yeah, this is pretty
terrible.
* Add some more TODO comments around handling txpower, rate and
handling filtered frames status so if I continue to have spoons for
this I can go poke at it.
Yes, people shouldn't use bitfields in C for structure parsing.
If someone ever wants a cleanup task then it'd be great to remove them
from this vendor code and other places in the ar9285/ar9287 HALs.
Alas, here we are.
AH_BYTE_ORDER wasn't defined and neither were the two values it could be.
So when compiling ath_ee_print_9300 it'd default to the big endian struct
layout and get a WHOLE lot of stuff wrong.
So:
* move AH_BYTE_ORDER into ath_hal/ah.h where it can be used by everyone.
* ensure that AH_BYTE_ORDER is actually defined before using it!
This should work on both big and little endian platforms.
There are no in-kernel consumers.
Reviewed by: cem
Relnotes: yes
Sponsored by: Chelsio Communications
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D24775
It no longer has any in-kernel consumers via OCF. smbfs still uses
single DES directly, so sys/crypto/des remains for that use case.
Reviewed by: cem
Relnotes: yes
Sponsored by: Chelsio Communications
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D24773
There are no longer any in-kernel consumers. The software
implementation was also a non-functional stub.
Reviewed by: cem
Relnotes: yes
Sponsored by: Chelsio Communications
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D24771
Although a few drivers supported this algorithm, there were never any
in-kernel consumers. cryptosoft and cryptodev never supported it,
and there was not a software xform auth_hash for it.
Reviewed by: cem
Relnotes: yes
Sponsored by: Chelsio Communications
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D24767
Pursuant to r360398, implement driver-specific versions of the
ifdi_needs_restart iflib device method.
Some (if not most?) Intel network cards don't need reinitializing when a
VLAN is added or removed from the device hardware, so these implement
ifdi_needs_restart in a way that tell iflib not to bring the interface
up or down when a VLAN is added or removed, regardless of whether the
VLAN_HWFILTER interface capability flag is set or not.
This could potentially solve several PRs relating to link flaps that
occur when VLANs are added/removed to devices.
Signed-off-by: Eric Joyner <erj@freebsd.org>
PR: 240818, 241785
Reviewed by: gallatin@, olivier@
MFC after: 3 days
MFC with: r360398
Sponsored by: Intel Corporation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D24659
r360870 added linux/slab.h into liunx/bitmap.h and this include linux/types.h
The qlnx driver is redefining some of those types so remove them and add an
explicit linux/types.h include.
Pointy hat: manu
Reported by: Austin Shafer <ashafer@badland.io>
Some ethernet switches have very large register windows; for example
the AR8316 switch MIB starts at 0x20000.
Submitted by: Mori Hiroki <yamori813@yahoo.co.jp>
The attach method uses GPIO_GET_BUS() to get a "newbus" device
that provides a pin. But on hints-based systems a GPIO controller
driver might not be fully initialized yet and it does not know gpiobus
hanging off it. Thus, GPIO_GET_BUS() cannot be called yet.
The reason is that controller drivers typically create a child gpiobus
using gpiobus_attach_bus() and that leads to the following call chain:
gpiobus_attach_bus() -> gpiobus_attach() ->
bus_generic_attach(gpiobus) -> gpioiic_attach().
So, gpioiic_attach() is called before gpiobus_attach_bus() returns.
I observed this bug with nctgpio driver on amd64.
I think that the problem was introduced in r355276.
The fix is to avoid calling GPIO_GET_BUS() from the attach method.
Instead, we know that on hints-based systems only the parent gpiobus can
provide the pins.
Nothing is changed for FDT-based systems.
MFC after: 1 week
Sometimes, especially when there is not much memory in the system left,
allocating mbuf jumbo clusters (like 9KB or 16KB) can take a lot of time
and it is not guaranteed that it'll succeed. In that situation, the
fallback will work, but if the refill needs to take a place for a lot of
descriptors at once, the time spent in m_getjcl looking for memory can
cause system unresponsiveness due to high priority of the Rx task. This
can also lead to driver reset, because Tx cleanup routine is being
blocked and timer service could detect that Tx packets aren't cleaned
up. The reset routine can further create another unresponsiveness - Rx
rings are being refilled there, so m_getjcl will again burn the CPU.
This was causing NVMe driver timeouts and resets, because network driver
is having higher priority.
Instead of 16KB jumbo clusters for the Rx buffers, 9KB clusters are
enough - ENA MTU is being set to 9K anyway, so it's very unlikely that
more space than 9KB will be needed.
However, 9KB jumbo clusters can still cause issues, so by default the
page size mbuf cluster will be used for the Rx descriptors. This can have a
small (~2%) impact on the throughput of the device, so to restore
original behavior, one must change sysctl "hw.ena.enable_9k_mbufs" to
"1" in "/boot/loader.conf" file.
As a part of this patch (important fix), the version of the driver
was updated to v2.1.2.
Submitted by: cperciva
Reviewed by: Michal Krawczyk <mk@semihalf.com>
Reviewed by: Ido Segev <idose@amazon.com>
Reviewed by: Guy Tzalik <gtzalik@amazon.com>
MFC after: 3 days
PR: 225791, 234838, 235856, 236989, 243531
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D24546
The bus is independent of the device, so all devices can be attached to
either a PCI bus or an MMIO bus. For example, QEMU's virtio-rng-device
gives the MMIO variant of virtio-rng-pci, and is now detected.
Reviewed by: andrew, br, brooks (mentor)
Approved by: andrew, br, brooks (mentor)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D24730
The non-legacy virtio MMIO specification drops the use of PFNs and
replaces them with physical addresses. Whilst many implementations are
so-called transitional devices, also implementing the legacy
specification, TinyEMU[1] does not. Device-specific configuration
registers have also changed to being little-endian, and must be accessed
using a single aligned access for registers up to 32 bits, and two
32-bit aligned accesses for 64-bit registers.
[1] https://bellard.org/tinyemu/
Reviewed by: br, brooks (mentor)
Approved by: br, brooks (mentor)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D24681
With the removal of in-tree consumers of DES, Triple DES, and
MD5-HMAC, the only algorithm this driver still supports is SHA1-HMAC.
This is not very useful as a standalone algorithm (IPsec AH-only with
SHA1 would be the only user).
This driver has also not been kept up to date with the original driver
in OpenBSD which supports a few more cards and AES-CBC on newer cards.
The newest card currently supported by this driver was released in
2005.
Reviewed by: cem
MFC after: 1 week
Relnotes: yes
Sponsored by: Chelsio Communications
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D24691
Only _BCL and _BCM methods seem to be essential to the driver's
operation. If _BQC is missing then we can assume that the current
brightness is whatever we set by the last _BCM invocation. If _DCS or
_DGS is missing the we can make assumptions as well.
The change is based on a patch suggested by Anthony Jenkins
<Scoobi_doo@yahoo.com> in PR 207086.
PR: 207086
Submitted by: Anthony Jenkins <Scoobi_doo@yahoo.com (earlier version)
Reviewed by: manu
MFC after: 3 weeks
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D24653
"F lock" is a switch between two sets of scancodes for function keys F1-F12
found on some Logitech and Microsoft PS/2 keyboards [1]. When "F lock" is
pressed, then F1-F12 act as function keys and produce usual keyscans for
these keys. When "F lock" is depressed, F1-F12 produced the same keyscans
but prefixed with E0.
Some laptops use [2] E0-prefixed F1-F12 scancodes for non-standard keys.
[1] https://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/linux/kbd/scancodes-6.html
[2] https://reviews.freebsd.org/D21565
MFC after: 2 weeks
o Shrink sglist(9) functions to work with multipage mbufs down from
four functions to two.
o Don't use 'struct mbuf_ext_pgs *' as argument, use struct mbuf.
o Rename to something matching _epg.
Reviewed by: gallatin
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D24598
The following series of patches addresses three things:
Now that array of pages is embedded into mbuf, we no longer need
separate structure to pass around, so struct mbuf_ext_pgs is an
artifact of the first implementation. And struct mbuf_ext_pgs_data
is a crutch to accomodate the main idea r359919 with minimal churn.
Also, M_EXT of type EXT_PGS are just a synonym of M_NOMAP.
The namespace for the newfeature is somewhat inconsistent and
sometimes has a lengthy prefixes. In these patches we will
gradually bring the namespace to "m_epg" prefix for all mbuf
fields and most functions.
Step 1 of 4:
o Anonymize mbuf_ext_pgs_data, embed in m_ext
o Embed mbuf_ext_pgs
o Start documenting all this entanglement
Reviewed by: gallatin
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D24598
All callers are currently filtering bad nsid to this function,
however, we'll have undefined behavior if that's not true. Add the
KASSERT to prevent that.
Add the nvmeX device to the XPT_PATH_INQ nvme specific
information. while one could figure this out by looking up the
domain🚌slot:function, it's a lot easier to have the SIM set it
directly since the sim knows this.
