EDMA HAL hardware.
* The EDMA HAL code assumes the nexttbtt and intval values are in TU/8
units, rather than TU. For now, just "hack" around that here, at least
until I code up something to translate it in the HAL.
* Setup some different TXQ flags for EDMA hardware.
* The EDMA HAL doesn't support setting the first rate series via
ath_hal_setuptxdesc() - instead, a call to ath_hal_set11nratescenario()
is always required. So for now, just do an 11n rate series setup
for EDMA beacon frames.
This allows my AR9380 to successfully transmit beacon frames.
However, CABQ TX and all normal data frame TX and TX completion is
still not functional and will require some more significant code churn
to make work.
I was having TX hang issues, which I root caused to having the
legacy ath_hal_setupxtxdesc() called, rather than the 11n rate scenario
setup code. This meant that rate control information wasn't being
put into frames, causing the MAC to stall/hang.
* Add ATH_TXQ_FIRST() for easy tasting of what's on the list;
* Add an "axq_fifo_depth" for easy tracking of how deep the current
FIFO is;
* Flesh out the handoff (mcast, hw) functions;
* Begin fleshing out a TX ISR proc, which tastes the TX status FIFO.
The legacy hardware stuffs the TX completion at the end of the final frame
descriptor (or final sub-frame when doing aggregate.) So it's feasible
to do a per-TXQ drain and process, as the needed info is right there.
For EDMA hardware, there's a separate TX completion FIFO. So the TX
process routine needs to read the single FIFO and then process the
frames in each hardware queue.
This makes it difficult to do a per-queue process, as you'll end up with
frames in the TX completion FIFO for a different TXQ to the one you've
passed to ath_tx_draintxq() or ath_tx_processq().
Testing:
I've tested the TX queue and TX completion code in hostap mode on an
AR9380. Beacon frames successfully transmit and the completion routine
is called. Occasional data frames end up in TXQ 1 and are also
successfully completed.
However, this requires some changes to the beacon code path as:
* The AR9380 beacon configuration API is now in TU/8, rather than
TU;
* The AR9380 TX API requires the rate control is setup using a call
to setup11nratescenario, rather than having the try0 series setup
(rate/tries for the first series); so the beacon won't go out.
I'll follow this up with commits to the beacon code.
8 or more cores to improve utilization. None of my tests on 2xXeon (2x6x2)
system shown any slowdown from mentioned "excess thrashing". Same time in
pbzip2 test with number of threads more then number of CPUs I see up to 10%
speedup with SMT disabled and up 5% with SMT enabled. Thinking about
trashing I was trying to limit that stealing within same last level cache,
but got only worse results. Present code any way prefers to steal threads
from topologically closer cores.
Sponsored by: iXsystems, Inc.
ARM EABI the syscall value will be moved to a register to ease adding thumb
support. When this happens decoding of the instruction will no longer be
required.
- remove extra dynamic variable initializations;
- restore (4BSD) and implement (ULE) hogticks variable setting;
- make sched_rr_interval() more tolerant to options;
- restore (4BSD) and implement (ULE) kern.sched.quantum sysctl, a more
user-friendly wrapper for sched_slice;
- tune some sysctl descriptions;
- make some style fixes.
If GELI provider was created on FreeBSD HEAD r238116 or later (but before this
change), it is using very weak keys and the data is not protected.
The bug was introduced on 4th July 2012.
One can verify if its provider was created with weak keys by running:
# geli dump <provider> | grep version
If the version is 7 and the system didn't include this fix when provider was
initialized, then the data has to be backed up, underlying provider overwritten
with random data, system upgraded and provider recreated.
Reported by: Fabian Keil <fk@fabiankeil.de>
Tested by: Fabian Keil <fk@fabiankeil.de>
Discussed with: so
MFC after: 3 days
the device_detach() function doesn't block on UCOM device
drivers until the TTY handle is closed by the userspace
application. This is implemented by a postpone of the
softc free where the UCOM structures reside until the
TTY references are gone.
Discussed with: kib, ed
MFC after: 2 weeks
Extend the callback table of UCOM to include a
"ucom_free" function pointer which is called when
all refs on a UCOM super structure is gone.
Implement various helper functions to handle
refcounting and draining on the UCOM super
structure.
Implement macro which can be used in device
drivers to avoid module unload before all
pending TTY references are gone.
The UCOM API is backwards compatible after this
change and device drivers require no changes
to function with this change. Only a recompilation
of UCOM device drivers is required. The FreeBSD
version has been bumped in that regard.
Discussed with: kib, ed
MFC after: 2 weeks
allocated softc structure which is returned by
device_get_softc(). This method can be used to
easily implement softc refcounting. This can be
desirable when the softc has memory references
which are controlled by userspace handles for
example.
This solves the problem of blocking the caller
of device_detach() for a non-deterministic time.
Discussed with: kib, ed
MFC after: 2 weeks
from pmap_pte(). PT_SET_MA() is not a queued mapping update, but instead
an immediate mapping update, so the page queues lock is not required here.
Reviewed by: cperciva
The machine-independent parts of the virtual memory system always pass a
valid pmap to the pmap functions that require one. Remove the checks for
NULL. (These checks have their origins in the Mach pmap.c that was
integrated into BSD. None of the new code written specifically for
FreeBSD included them.)
the wrong direction. Before it, if preemption and end of time slice happen
same time, thread was put to the head of the queue as for only preemption.
It could cause single thread to run for indefinitely long time. r220198
handles it by not clearing TDF_NEEDRESCHED in case of preemption. But that
causes delayed context switch every time preemption happens, even when not
needed.
Solve problem by introducing scheduler-specifoc thread flag TDF_SLICEEND,
set when thread's time slice is over and it should be put to the tail of
queue. Using SW_PREEMPT flag for that purpose as it was before just not
enough informative to work correctly.
On my tests this by 2-3 times reduces run time deviation (improves fairness)
in cases when several threads share one CPU.
Reviewed by: fabient
MFC after: 2 months
Sponsored by: iXsystems, Inc.
With switchticks variable being reset each time thread preempted (that is
done regularly by interrupt threads) scheduling quantum may never expire.
It was not noticed in time because several other factors still regularly
trigger context switches.
Handle the problem by replacing that mechanism with its equivalent from
SCHED_ULE called time slice. It is effectively the same, just measured in
context of stathz instead of hz. Some unification is probably not bad.
Reduce the size of a PV entry by eliminating pv_ptem. There is no need
to store a pointer to the page table page in the PV entry because it is
easily computed during the walk down the page table.
Eliminate the ptphint from the pmap. Long, long ago, page table pages
belonged to a vm object, and we would look up page table pages based
upon their offset within this vm object. In those days, this hint may
have had tangible benefits.
Tested by: jchandra
- Move destruction of per-ring locks to netmap_dtor_locked to mirror the
initialization that happens in NIOCREGIF. Otherwise unloading a netmap-
capable interface that was never put into netmap mode would try to
mtx_destroy an uninitialized mutex, and panic.
- Destroy core_lock in netmap_detach, mirroring init in netmap_attach.
- Also comment out the knlist_destroy for now as there is currently no
knlist_init.
Sponsored by: ADARA Networks
Reviewed by: luigi@
CCB at a time outstanding reliable. It's not there yet, but this
is the direction to go in so might as well commit. So far,
multiple at a time CCBs work (see ISP_INTERNAL_TARGET test mode),
but it fails if there are more downstream than the SIM wants
to handle and SRR is sort of confused when this happens, plus
it is not entirely quite clear what one does if a CCB/CTIO fails
and you have more in flight (that don't fail, say) and more queued
up at the SIM level that haven't been started yet.
Some of this is driven because there apparently is no flow control
to requeue XPT_CONTINUE_IO requests like there are for XPT_SCSI_IO
requests. It is also more driven in that the few target mode
periph drivers there are are not really set up for handling pushback-
heck most of them don't even check for errors (and what would they
really do with them anyway? It's the initiator's problem, really....).
The data transfer arithmetic has been worked over again to handle
multiple outstanding commands, so you have a notion of what's been
moved already as well as what's currently in flight. It turns that
this led to uncovering a REPORT_LUNS bug in the ISP_INTERNAL_TARGET
code which was sending back 24 bytes of rpl data instead of the
specified 16. What happened furthermore here is that sending back
16 bytes and reporting an overrun of 8 bytes made the initiator
(running FC-Tape aware f/w) mad enough to request, and keep
requesting, another FCP response (I guess it didn't like the answer
so kept asking for it again).
Sponsored by: Spectralogic
MFC after: 1 month
protect against 32-bit TSC overflow while the sync test is running.
On dual-socket Xeon E5-2600 (SNB) systems with up to 32 threads, there
is non-trivial chance (2-3%) that TSC synchronization test fails due to
32-bit TSC overflow while the synchronization test is running.
Sponsored by: Intel
Reviewed by: jkim
Discussed with: jkim, kib
This fixes "Negative sc_ref" panic possible when sysctl_kern_geom_confxml()
is run simultaneously with destroying GATE device.
Reviewed by: pjd
MFC after: 3 days
Starting or stopping the IPMI watchdog is rather expensive with the
current implementation as all IPMI requests are bounced via thread.
This is not viable during shutdown or dumps, and this avoids headache
in the common case that the watchdog is not enabled. The IPMI watchdog
should probably be reworked to not use a separate thread to fix this
in the case when the watchdog timer is enabled.
MFC after: 2 weeks
typical hypervisor does not implement access to the required MSR,
causing #GP on boot.
Reported and tested by: olgeni
PR: amd64/170388
MFC after: 3 days
ago, sleeping on busy pages in vm_pageout_launder() made sense. The call
to vm_pageout_flush() specified asynchronous I/O and sleeping on busy pages
blocked vm_pageout_launder() until the flush had completed. However, in
CVS revision 1.35 of vm/vm_contig.c, the call to vm_pageout_flush() was
changed to request synchronous I/O, but the sleep on busy pages was not
removed.
