This includes the following:
- use separate memory regions for VALE ports
- locking fixes
- some simplifications in the NIC-specific routines
- performance improvements for the VALE switch
- some new features in the pkt-gen test program
- documentation updates
There are small API changes that require programs to be recompiled
(NETMAP_API has been bumped so you will detect old binaries at runtime).
In particular:
- struct netmap_slot now is 16 bytes to support an extra pointer,
which may save one data copy when using VALE ports or VMs;
- the struct netmap_if has two extra fields;
MFC after: 3 days
to this event, adding if_var.h to files that do need it. Also, include
all includes that now are included due to implicit pollution via if_var.h
Sponsored by: Netflix
Sponsored by: Nginx, Inc.
command register. The lazy BAR allocation code in FreeBSD sometimes
disables this bit when it detects a range conflict, and will re-enable
it on demand when a driver allocates the BAR. Thus, the bit is no longer
a reliable indication of capability, and should not be checked. This
results in the elimination of a lot of code from drivers, and also gives
the opportunity to simplify a lot of drivers to use a helper API to set
the busmaster enable bit.
This changes fixes some recent reports of disk controllers and their
associated drives/enclosures disappearing during boot.
Submitted by: jhb
Reviewed by: jfv, marius, achadd, achim
MFC after: 1 day
ixgbe driver. As it was, when building them as a module INET
and INET6 are not defined. In these drivers it does not cause
a panic, however it does result in different behavior in the
ioctl routine when you are using a module vs static, and I
think the behavior should be the same.
MFC after: 3 days
irrespective of the setting of lem_rx_process_limit, while
giving a chance to the taskqueue scheduler to act after
each chunk.
This makes lem_rxeof similar to the one in if_em.c and if_igb.c .
if_lem.c and if_em.c: add a sysctl to manually configure the
'itr' moderation register.
Approved by: Jack Vogel
done in ixgbe, thanks to Mike Karels for this fix. When exiting
promiscuous mode MPE bit was being unconditionally cleared, this
should not be done if we are in MAX multicast groups.
- 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.
device drivers that used to provide this feature.
This is a subset of 241856 (which was reverted)
Reviewed by: des
Approved by: cperciva (implicit)
MFC after: 1 week
adapter->dropped_pkts instead of if_ierrors because if_ierrors is
overwritten by hw stats collection.
Submitted by: Andrew Boyer <aboyer@averesystems.com>
Reviewed by: Jack F Vogel <jfv@freebsd.org>
MFC after: 2 weeks
when used in qemu (and this driver is for non-PCIe cards,
so probably its largest use is in virtualized environments).
Approved by: Jack Vogel
MFC after: 3 days
USERSPACE:
1. add support for devices with different number of rx and tx queues;
2. add better support for zero-copy operation, adding an extra field
to the netmap ring to indicate how many buffers we have already processed
but not yet released (with help from Eddie Kohler);
3. The two changes above unfortunately require an API change, so while
at it add a version field and some spares to the ioctl() argument
to help detect mismatches.
4. update the manual page for the two changes above;
5. update sample applications in tools/tools/netmap
KERNEL:
1. simplify the internal structures moving the global wait queues
to the 'struct netmap_adapter';
2. simplify the functions that map kring<->nic ring indexes
3. normalize device-specific code, helps mainteinance;
4. start exploring the impact of micro-optimizations (prefetch etc.)
in the ixgbe driver.
Use 'legacy' descriptors on the tx ring and prefetch slots gives
about 20% speedup at 900 MHz. Another 7-10% would come from removing
the explict calls to bus_dmamap* in the core (they are effectively
NOPs in this case, but it takes expensive load of the per-buffer
dma maps to figure out that they are all NULL.
Rx performance not investigated.
I am postponing the MFC so i can import a few more improvements
before merging.
Introduce some functions to map NIC ring indexes into netmap ring
indexes and vice versa. This way we can implement the bound
checks only in one place (and hopefully in a correct way).
On passing, make the code and comments more uniform across the
various drivers.
the memory allocator used by netmap. No functional change,
two small bug fixes:
- in if_re.c add a missing bus_dmamap_sync()
- in netmap.c comment out a spurious free() in an error handling block
rings, copy the whole VLAN tag, not just the VLAN ID. This fixes a
problem in which VLAN priority information was dropped when using
offloaded VLAN processing with these drivers.
Discussed with: jfv, rrs
Sponsored by: ADARA Networks, Inc.
MFC after: 3 days
There have still been intermittent problems with apparent TX
hangs for some customers. These have been problematic to reproduce
but I believe these changes will address them. Testing on a number
of fronts have been positive.
EM: there is an important 'chicken bit' fix for 82574 in the shared
code this is supported in the core here.
- The TX path has been tightened up to improve performance. In
particular UDP with jumbo frames was having problems, and the
changes here have improved that.
- OACTIVE has been used more carefully on the theory that some
hangs may be due to a problem in this interaction
- Problems with the RX init code, the "lazy" allocation and
ring initialization has been found to cause problems in some
newer client systems, and as it really is not that big a win
(its not in a hot path) it seems best to remove it.
- HWTSO was broken when VLAN HWTAGGING or HWFILTER is used, I
found this was due to an error in setting up the descriptors
in em_xmit.
IGB:
- TX is also improved here. With multiqueue I realized its very
important to handle OACTIVE only under the CORE lock so there
are no races between the queues.
- Flow Control handling was broken in a couple ways, I have changed
and I hope improved that in this delta.
- UDP also had a problem in the TX path here, it was change to
improve that.
- On some hardware, with the driver static, a weird stray interrupt
seems to sometimes fire and cause a panic in the RX mbuf refresh
code. This is addressed by setting interrupts late in the init
path, and also to set all interrupts bits off at the start of that.
On my hardware, "em" in netmap mode does about 1.388 Mpps
on one card (on an Asus motherboard), and 1.1 Mpps on another
card (PCIe bus). Both seem to be NIC-limited, because
i have the same rate even with the CPU running at 150 MHz.
On the "re" driver the tx throughput is around 420-450 Kpps
on various (8111C and the like) chipsets. On the Rx side
performance seems much better, and i can receive the full
load generated by the "em" cards.
"igb" is untested as i don't have the hardware.
initialization. Prior to this change packets may be transmitted with an
incorrect checksum.
Em(4) already has an equivalent change in r213234.
Obtained From: Sandvine
MFC After: 1 week
Approved by: re (bz)
- 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
- Add a single sysctl procedure to all three drivers to read an arbitrary
register (the register is passed as arg2). Use it to replace existing
routines in igb(4) that used a separate routine for each register, and
to add support for missing stats in em(4) and lem(4).
- Move the 'rx_overruns' and 'watchdog_timeouts' stats out of the MAC stats
section as they are driver stats, not MAC counters.
- Simplify the code that creates per-queue stats in igb(4) to use a single
loop and remove duplicated code.
- Properly read all 64 bits of the 'good octets received/transmitted' in
em(4) and lem(4).
- Actually read the interrupt count registers in em(4), and drop the
'host to card' sysctl stats from em(4) as they are not implemented in
any of the hardware this driver supports.
- Restore several stats to em(4) that were lost in the earlier stats
conversion including per-queue stats.
- Export several MAC stats in em(4) that were exported in igb(4) but not
in em(4).
- Export stats in lem(4) using individual sysctls as in em(4) and igb(4).
Reviewed by: jfv
MFC after: 1 week
configuration function. For failed memory allocations, em(4)/lem(4)
called panic(9) which is not acceptable on production box.
igb(4)/ixgb(4)/ix(4) allocated the required memory in stack which
consumed 768 bytes of stack memory which looks too big.
To address these issues, allocate multicast array memory in device
attach time and make multicast configuration success under any
conditions. This change also removes the excessive use of memory in
stack.
Reviewed by: jfv
a packet has only a header in the first mbuf, the
checksum code will dereference a pointer into the
non-existing IP header. Do a check for the size and
pullup if needed. Thanks to Michael Tuexen for this
fix.
MFC: asap - should be in 8.1 IMHO
unneeded for legacy hardware.
Also remove some TSO related cruft.
Add some watchdog_time setting that was missing, thanks
to Mikolaj Golub for pointing that out.
em revision 7.0.0:
- Using driver devclass, seperate legacy (pre-pcie) code
into a seperate source file. This will at least help
protect against regression issues. It compiles along
with em, and is transparent to end use, devices in each
appear to be 'emX'. When using em in a modular form this
also allows the legacy stuff to be defined out.
- Add tx and rx rings as in igb, in the 82574 this becomes
actual multiqueue for the first time (2 queues) while in
other PCIE adapters its just make code cleaner.
- Add RX mbuf handling logic that matches igb, this will
eliminate packet drops due to temporary mbuf shortage.
igb revision 1.9.3:
- Following the ixgbe code, use a new approach in what
was called 'get_buf', the routine now has been made
independent of rxeof, it now does the update to the
engine TDT register, this design allows temporary
mbuf resources to become non-critical, not requiring
a packet to be discarded, instead it just returns and
does not increment the tail pointer.
- With the above change it was also unnecessary to keep
'spare' maps around, since we do not have the discard
issue.
- Performance tweaks and improvements to the code also.
MFC in a week
