The hardware rate limiting feature is enabled by the RATELIMIT kernel
option. Please refer to ifconfig(8) and the txrtlmt option and the
SO_MAX_PACING_RATE set socket option for more information. This
feature is compatible with hardware transmit send offload, TSO.
A set of sysctl(8) knobs under dev.mce.<N>.rate_limit are provided to
setup the ratelimit table and also to fine tune various rate limit
related parameters.
Sponsored by: Mellanox Technologies
driver. This change significantly increases the overall RX aggregation
ratio for heavily loaded networks handling 10-80 thousand simultaneous
connections.
Remove the turbo LRO code and all references to it which has now been
superceeded by the tcp_lro_queue_mbuf() function.
Tested by: Netflix
Sponsored by: Mellanox Technologies
MFC after: 1 week
driver. This includes binding all interrupt and worker threads
according to the RSS configuration, setting up correct Toeplitz
hashing keys as given by RSS and setting the correct mbuf
hashtype for all received traffic.
MFC after: 1 week
Sponsored by: Mellanox Technologies
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D4410
from Mellanox Technologies. The current driver supports ethernet
speeds up to and including 100 GBit/s. Infiniband support will be
done later.
The code added is not compiled by default, which will be done by a
separate commit.
Sponsored by: Mellanox Technologies
MFC after: 2 weeks
