status registers for error conditions and updating statistics
when there are cycles left (inspired by the nge(4) driver).
- Removed the TX list counter and the producer/consumer gap; it's
enough to just ensure we don't reuse the last (free) descriptor,
as the chip may not have read its next pointer yet. If we reuse
it, the TX may stall under a heavy TX load with polling enabled.
- Dropped code to recharge the watchdog timer, it's pointless; the
watchdog routine will re-init the chip and both RX and TX lists.
Moved the RX ring resyncing code to ste_rxeoc(), and only run it
if we were asked to POLL_AND_CHECK_STATUS, under DEVICE_POLLING.
(This significantly reduces the CPU load.)
Improved the RX ring resyncing code by re-checking if the head
is still empty before doing resyncing. This mostly affects the
DEVICE_POLLING mode, where we run this code periodically. We
could start checking with an empty head (well, an empty ring
even), and after doing a few iterations, the chip might write
a few entries, including the head, and we would bogusly consider
this case as requiring resyncing. On a test box, this reduced
the number of resyncs done by a factor of 10.
In ste_txeof(sc), only reset the watchdog timer to zero when
the TX list is completely empty.
Converted ste_tx_prev_idx to a pointer -- faster.
Removed some bitrot.
the driver's RX ring head may fall behind the chip, causing the
stuck traffic, disordered packets, etc. Work around this by
adopting the technique of resyncing RX head used in dc(4) and
xl(4) drivers, but do it in a slightly different place to reduce
the number of resyncs needed.
Also, set the NIC's RX polling period to a more meaningful value,
to stop overloading the PCI bus (this also reduces the number of
resyncs by a factor of 3 or more in a long run; the actual number
is very dependent on a nature of the traffic).
Maintain the statistics counter as the hw.ste_rxsyncs sysctl.
In cooperation with: Vsevolod Lobko
OK'ed by: ambrisko
MFC after: 5 days
No functional change, the previous ste_encap() was correct WRT
long mbuf chains; this just reduces code duplication.
MFC after: 3 days
Prodded by: ambrisko
the packets are immediately returned for sending (e.g. when bridging
or packet forwarding). There are more efficient ways to do this
but for now use the least intrusive approach.
Reviewed by: imp, rwatson
multicast hash are written. There are still two distinct algorithms used,
and there actually isn't any reason each driver should have its own copy
of this function as they could all share one copy of it (if it grew an
additional argument).
if_xname, if_dname, and if_dunit. if_xname is the name of the interface
and if_dname/unit are the driver name and instance.
This change paves the way for interface renaming and enhanced pseudo
device creation and configuration symantics.
Approved By: re (in principle)
Reviewed By: njl, imp
Tested On: i386, amd64, sparc64
Obtained From: NetBSD (if_xname)
forced to do slightly bogus power state manipulation. However, this
is one of those features that is preventing further progress, so mark
them as BURN_BIRDGES like I did for the drivers in sys/dev/...
This, like the other change, are a no-op unless you have BURN_BRIDGES
in your kernel.
if attach succeeded. device_is_alive just tells us that probe
succeeded. Since we were using it to do things like detach net
interfaces, this caused problems when there were errors in the attach
routine.
Symptoms of problem reported by: martin blapp
- Unconditionally call *_stop() if device is in the tree. This is to
prevent callouts from happening after the device is gone. Checks for
bus_child_present() should be added in the future to keep from touching
potentially non-existent hardware in *_detach(). Found by iedowse@.
- Always check for and free miibus children, even if the device is not in
the tree since some failure cases could have gotten here.
- Call ether_ifdetach() in the irq setup failure case
- ti(4), xl(4): move ifmedia_init() calls to the beginning of attach so
that ifmedia_removeall() can be unconditionally called on detach. There
is no way to detect whether ifmedia has been initialized without using
a separate variable (as tl(4) does).
- Add comments to indicate assumptions of code path
network layer (ether).
- Don't abuse module names to facilitate ifconfig module loading;
such abuse isn't really needed. (And if we do need type information
associated with a module then we should make it explicit and not
use hacks.)
- Remove locking of the softc in the attach method, instead depending on
bus_setup_intr being at the end of attach (delaying interrupt enable until
after ether_ifattach is called)
- Call *_detach directly in the error case of attach, depending on checking
in detach to only free resources that were allocated. This puts all
resource freeing in one place, avoiding thinkos that lead to memory leaks.
- Add bus_child_present check to calls to *_stop in the detach method to
be sure hw is present before touching its registers.
- Remove bzero softc calls since device_t should do this for us.
- dc: move interrupt allocation back where it was before. It was unnecessary
to move it. This reverts part of 1.88
- rl: move irq allocation before ether_ifattach. Problems might have been
caused by allocating the irq after enabling interrupts on the card.
- rl: call rl_stop before ether_ifdetach
- sf: call sf_stop before ether_ifdetach
- sis: add missed free of sis_tag
- sis: check errors from tag creation
- sis: move dmamem_alloc and dmamap_load to happen at same time as tag creation
- sk: remove duplicate initialization of sk_dev
- ste: add missed bus_generic_detach
- ti: call ti_stop before ether_ifdetach
- ti: add missed error setting in ti_rdata alloc failure
- vr: add missed error setting in I/O, memory mapping cases
- xl: add missed error setting in I/O, memory mapping cases
- xl: remove multi-level goto on attach failure
- xl: move dmamem_alloc and dmamap_load to happen at same time as tag creation
- Calls to free(9) are unconditional because it is valid to call free with a
null pointer.
Reviewed by: imp, mdodd
is read one clock edge too late. This bit is driven low by
slave (as any other input data bits from slave) when the clock
is LOW. The current code did read the bit after the clock was
driven high again.
Reviewed by: luoqi
MFC after: 2 weeks
o use if_input for input packet processing
o don't strip the Ethernet header for input packets
o use BPF_* macros bpf tapping
o call ether_ioctl to handle default ioctl case
o track vlan changes
Reviewed by: many
Approved by: re
The 550 version is location at address 1 but since it works right we
let the code find whatever PHY it can.
Fix a fragment issue on TX. If the number of frags are more then the
driver has allocated then bring all the frags together into one packet
and send it out. Code derived from the fxp driver.
Tested and found by: Francois Tigeot <francois.tigeot@nic.fr>
Hellmuth Michaelis <hm@kts.org>
MFC after: 1 week
when this is needed. Work around bogus second PHY in the DFE-580 card
via a change in the if_ste.c driver.
Suggested by: jdp
Reviewed by: jdp
MFC after: 3 days
This is pretty much fixes any issue I can find:
- Watchdog timeouts were due to starting the TX DMA engine
before we had a packet ready for it. So the first packet
sent never got out only if we sent more then one packet
at a time did the others make it out and not blow up.
Of course reseting the chip then caused us not to transmit
the first packet again ie. catch-22. This required logic changes.
- Combine interrupts on TX packets being queued up.
- Don't keep running around the RX ring since we might get
out of sync so only go around once per receive
- Let the RX engine recover via the poll interface which is
similar to the TX interface. This way the chip wakes
up with no effort when we read enough packets.
- Do better hand-shaking on RX & TX packets so they don't
start of to soon.
- Force a duplex setting when the link comes up after
an ste_init or it will default to half-duplex and be
really slow. This only happens on subsequent ste_init.
The first one worked.
- Don't call stat_update for every overflow. We only monitor
the collisions so the tick interval is good enough for that.
Just read in the collision stats to minimize bus reads.
- Don't read the miibus every tick since it uses delays and
delays are not good for performance.
- Tie link events directly to the miibus code so the port
gets set correctly if someone changes the port settings.
- Reduce the extreme number of {R,T}FD's. They would consume
130K of kernel memory for each NIC.
- Set the TX_THRESH to wait for the DMA engine to complete
before running the TX FIFO. This hurts peak TX performance
but under bi-directional load the DMA engine can't keep up
with the FIFO. Testing shows that we end up in the case
anyways (a la dc(4) issues but worse since the RX engine hogs
everything).
- When stopping the card do a reset since the reset verifies the
card has stopped. Otherwise on heavy RX load the RX DMA engine
is still stuffing packets into memory. If that happens after
we free the DMA area memory bits get scribled in memory and
bad things happen.
This card still has seemingly unfixable issues under heavy RX load in
which the card takes over the PCI bus.
Sponsored by: Vernier Networks
MFC after: 1 week
most cases NULL is passed, but in some cases such as network driver locks
(which use the MTX_NETWORK_LOCK macro) and UMA zone locks, a name is used.
Tested on: i386, alpha, sparc64
