AX88772 controllers. ASIX added a new feature for AX88178/AX88772
controllers which allows combining multiple TX frames into a single
big frame. This was to overcome one of USB limitation where it
can't generate more than 8k interrupts/sec which in turn means USB
ethernet controllers can not send more than 8k packets per second.
Using ASIX's feature greatly enhanced TX performance(more than 3~4
times) compared to 7.x driver. However it seems r184610 removed
boundary checking for buffered frames which in turn caused
instability issues under certain conditions. In addition, using
ASIX's feature triggered another issue which made USB controller
hang under certain conditions. Restarting ethernet controller
didn't help under this hang condition and unplugging and replugging
the controller was the only solution. I believe there is a silicon
bug in TX frame combining feature on AX88178/AX88772 controllers.
To address these issues, reintroduce the boundary checking for both
AX88178 and AX88772 after copying a frame to USB buffer and do not
use ASIX's multiple frame combining feature. Instead, use USB
controller's multi-frame transmit capability to enhance TX
performance as suggested by Hans[1].
This should fix a long standing axe(4) instability issues reported
on AX88772 and AX88178 controllers. While I'm here remove
unnecessary TX frame length check since upper stack always
guarantee the size of a frame to be less than MCLBYTES.
Special thanks to Derrick Brashear who tried numerous patches
during last 4 months and waited real fix with patience. Without
this enthusiastic support, patience and H/W donation I couldn't fix
it since I was not able to trigger the issue on my box.
Suggested by: hselasky [1]
Tested by: Derrick Brashear (shadow <> gmail dot com>
H/W donated by: Derrick Brashear (shadow <> gmail dot com>
PR: usb/140883
information through devd. My E220 now produces the notification (1 line):
+u3g0 at bus=1 hubaddr=1 port=0 devaddr=2 interface=0 \
vendor=0x12d1 product=0x1003 devclass=0x00 devsubclass=0x00 \
sernum="" release=0x0000 intclass=0xff intsubclass=0xff \
ttyname=U0 ttyports=2 on uhub0
Note: serial/ufoma and net/uhso still provide port number and tty name
(uhso only) information through sysctls, which should now be removed.
Reviewed by: hpselasky
- hw.usb.ucom.cons_unit is now split into
hw.usb.ucom.cons_unit/...cons_subunit.
Note: The tunable/sysctl hw.usb.ucom.cons_unit needs to be reviewed if
a) a console was defined a USB serial devices, and a USB device with
more than 1 subunit is present, and this device is attached before the
device functioning as a console
or
b) a console was defined on a USB device with more than 1 subunit
Reviewed by: hps
MFC after: 2 weeks
- correct the ethernet payload remainder which
must be post-offseted by -14 bytes instead of
0 bytes. This is not very clearly defined in the
NCM specification.
- add development feature about limiting the
maximum datagram count in each NCM payload.
- zero-pad alignment data
- add TX-interval tuning sysctl
Approved by: thompsa (mentor)
It seems axe(4) controllers support interrupt endpoint such that
enabling interrupt endpoint generates about 1000 interrupts/sec.
Controllers transfer 8 bytes data through interrupt endpoint and
the data include link UP/DOWN state as well as some PHY related
information. Previously axe(4) didn't use the transferred data and
didn't even try to read the data. Because axe(4) counts on mii(4)
to detect link state changes there is no need to use interrupt
endpoint here.
This change fixes generation of unnecessary interrupts which was
seen when interface is brought to UP.
No objections from: hselasky
successfully received a frame but we failed to pass it to upper
stack due to lack of resources. So update if_iqdrops counter
instead of updating if_ierrors counter.
controllers combine multiple TX requests into single one if there
is room in TX buffer of controller. Updating TX packet counter at
the end of TX completion resulted in incorrect TX packet counter as
axe(4) thought it sent 1 packet. There is no easy way to know how
many combined TX were completed in the callback.
Because this change updates TX packet counter before actual
transmission, it may not be ideal one. But I believe it's better
than showing fake 8kpps under high TX load. With this change, TX
shows 221kpps on Linksus USB200M.
greater than 65535 bytes then the CDC driver might not work as expected, which
is not likely with the existing USB speeds.
Submitted by: Hans Petter Selasky
- Fixed the interface probe routine to only attach to USB interfaces the driver
actually supports. This allows other drivers to attach to things like
MicroSD slots etc.
- Fixed network interface enumeration to be globally sequential instead of
relying on the USB interface numbers. This make sure the first network
interface always is at uhso0 and the second at usho1 and so on.
- Added a radio kill switch; exposed through sysctl.
- Updated the manual page to be verbose about the number of serial ports and
include iCON 452 in the set of tested hardware.
Submitted by: Fredrik Lindberg
queue length. The default value for this parameter is 50, which is
quite low for many of today's uses and the only way to modify this
parameter right now is to edit if_var.h file. Also add read-only
sysctl with the same name, so that it's possible to retrieve the
current value.
MFC after: 1 month
from standard 3G wireless units by supplying a raw IP/IPv6 endpoint rather than
using PPP over serial. uhsoctl(1) is used to initiate and close the WAN
connection.
Obtained from: Fredrik Lindberg <fli@shapeshifter.se>
message has been printed is enough to get someones attention. Also remove the
line number for DPRINTF/DPRINTFN, it already prints the funtion name and a
unique message.
enable the ones we want. This has been changed to better
match the ADMtek's reference design to avoid setting the
power-down configuration line of the PHY at the same time
it is reset.
Submitted by: John Hood via hps
The newbus lock is responsible for protecting newbus internIal structures,
device states and devclass flags. It is necessary to hold it when all
such datas are accessed. For the other operations, softc locking should
ensure enough protection to avoid races.
Newbus lock is automatically held when virtual operations on the device
and bus are invoked when loading the driver or when the suspend/resume
take place. For other 'spourious' operations trying to access/modify
the newbus topology, newbus lock needs to be automatically acquired and
dropped.
For the moment Giant is also acquired in some key point (modules subsystem)
in order to avoid problems before the 8.0 release as module handlers could
make assumptions about it. This Giant locking should go just after
the release happens.
Please keep in mind that the public interface can be expanded in order
to provide more support, if there are really necessities at some point
and also some bugs could arise as long as the patch needs a bit of
further testing.
Bump __FreeBSD_version in order to reflect the newbus lock introduction.
Reviewed by: ed, hps, jhb, imp, mav, scottl
No answer by: ariff, thompsa, yongari
Tested by: pho,
G. Trematerra <giovanni dot trematerra at gmail dot com>,
Brandon Gooch <jamesbrandongooch at gmail dot com>
Sponsored by: Yahoo! Incorporated
Approved by: re (ksmith)
- Add support for devices that handle set and clear stall in hardware.
- Add missing get timestamp function
- Add more xfer flags
Submitted by: Hans Petter Selasky
Approved by: re (kib)
IF_ADDR_UNLOCK() across network device drivers when accessing the
per-interface multicast address list, if_multiaddrs. This will
allow us to change the locking strategy without affecting our driver
programming interface or binary interface.
For two wireless drivers, remove unnecessary locking, since they
don't actually access the multicast address list.
Approved by: re (kib)
MFC after: 6 weeks
- make usb2_power_mask_t 16-bit
- remove "usb2_config_sub" structure from "usb2_config". To compensate for this
"usb2_config" has a new field called "usb_mode" which select for which mode
the current xfer entry is active. Options are: a) Device mode only b) Host
mode only (default-by-zero) c) Both modes. This change was scripted using
the following sed script: "s/\.mh\././g".
- the standard packet size table in "usb_transfer.c" is now a function, hence
the code for the function uses less memory than the table itself.
Submitted by: Hans Petter Selasky
- Move tunable defines into usb_core.h and dependancy towards usb_defs.h
- Leave hardcoded defines in "usb_defs.h".
- Allow overriding all tunable defines.
- Add more customisable typedefs.
- Correct maximum device number.
Submitted by: Hans Petter Selasky
