changes in the firmwares since 1.11.27.0 are listed here (straight copy-paste
from the "Release Notes.txt" accompanying the Chelsio Unified Wire 2.11.1.0
release on the website).
22.1. T5 Firmware
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Version : 1.14.4.0
Date : 08/05/2015
================================================================================
FIXES
-----
BASE:
- Fixes a potential data path hang by properly programming PMTX congestion
threshold settings.
- Fixes a potential initialization error when accessing a configuration file
stored on the flash.
- Fixes a regression where SGE resources can be miss-sized if iWARP is disabled.
ETH:
- Fixes a timing issue that would prevent CR4 links from coming up with some
switches.
FOFCoE:
- Defers fcoe linkdown mailbox command handling till LOGO is sent.
- Updates vlan prio for all outstanding IOs during dcbx update.
ENHANCEMENTS
------------
BASE:
- Adds support for PAUSE OFF watchdog.
- Reports devlog access information in PCIE_FW_PF register 7.
ETH:
- Enhances segmentation offload to include VxLAN and Geneve.
- Adds PTP support.
- Adds new interface to allow the driver to query the VI rss table base
addresses.
- Allows the driver to program the SGE ingrext contxt CongDrop field.
OFLD:
- Adds new interface for the driver to specify offloaded connections TCP snd
and rcv scale factors.
iSCSI:
- Adds support for iscsi segmentatation offload (ISO).
- Adds support for iscsi t10-dif offload.
FOiSCSI:
- Sets FORCE_BIT for cut through processing for FOiSCSI.
FOFCoE:
- Adds support for FCoE BB6.
- Improves WRITE performance.
================================================================================
================================================================================
Version : 1.13.32.0
Date : 03/25/2015
================================================================================
FIXES
-----
BASE:
- Fixes FW_CAPS_CONFIG_CMD return value on error (was positive instead of
negative)
- Fixes FW_PARAMS_PARAM_DEV_FLOWC_BUFFIFO_SZ indication (was wrong on certain
adapter configurations)
- Fixes config file based PL_TIMEOUT register programming
ETH:
- Fixes a potential EO UDP SEG header corruption
- Fixes an issue where 1000Base-X was not enabled correctly when using QSA
modules
OFLD:
- Fixes timeout issue with half-open connections
- Fixes FW_FLOWC_WR processing when state is set to finwait1
FOFCoE:
- Fixes fcoe xchg leaks in linkdown/peer down path
- Fixes cleanup in FCoE linkdown and fixed buf timer flowid abuse
- Fixes fw crash by clearing fcf flowc during bye
FOiSCSI:
- Don't create a new tcp socket if ERL0 attempt has timed out.
ENHANCEMENTS
------------
BASE:
- Adds support for VFs on PFs 4 to 7
- Adds support for QPs/CQs on any physical and virtual function
ETH:
- Stops sending LACP frames on loopback interface
- Adds an AUTOEQU indication to CPL_SGE_EGR_UPDATE
- Adds support for CR4 links (BEAN/AEC on 40G TwinAx cables)
OFLD:
- Improves default settings of LAN and CLUSTER TCP timer settings
- Sends Negative Advice CPLs to software
FOISCSI:
- Adds IPv6 support for foiscsi. Keeps backward compatibility with
old foiscsi drivers which doesn't support ipv6.
FOFCoE:
- Added fcoe debug support in flowc dump
================================================================================
================================================================================
Version : 1.12.25.0
Date : 10/22/2014
================================================================================
FIXES
-----
BASE:
- Improves precision of the Weight Round Robing Traffic Management Algorithm
- Fixes an issue where the link would intermittently fail to come up
- Fixes an issue where adapters with an external PHY couldn't run at 100Mbps
- Fixes an issue where active optical cables were not recognized
- Fixes link advertising issues on T520-BT (speed and pause frames) that would
cause the link to negotiate unexpected settings
- Forces link restart when auto-negotiation is disabled
- Fix an issue where pause frames wouldn't be fully disabled even if requested
ETH:
- Fixes NVGRE Segmentation Offload network header generation.
DCBX:
- Fixes an issue where some settings were not being sent to the switch
correctly
- Fixes an issue where back-to-back DCBX port updates could get overwritten by
FW
- Fixes a firmware crash on DCBX APP information request before link up
FOiSCSI:
- Fixes abort task leak in tmf response handling
- Fixes TCP RST handling while in iSCSI ERL0
- Fixes a firmware crash on BYE without INIT
ENHANCEMENTS
-------------
BASE:
- Adds link partner settings reporting when available
- Adds QSA support (in conjunction with QSA VPD)
- Adds T520-BT LED support
- Reports NOTSUPPORTED for modules with an unhandled identifier
DCBX:
- Adds version reporting (indicating which version FW is trying to negotiate)
- Adds IEEE support
- Reports LLDP time outs
FOiSCSI:
- Add support for multiple iSCSI DDP client
- Sends DHCP renew request when lease expires
================================================================================
22.2. T4 Firmware
+++++++++++++++++
Version : 1.14.4.0
Date : 08/05/2015
================================================================================
FIXES
-----
BASE:
- Fixes a potential initialization error when accessing a configuration file
stored on the flash.
- Initialize PCIE_DBG_INDIR_REQ.Enable to 0, as hardware failed to do so and
register dumps could result in errors.
ETH:
- Fixes an issue that sometimes prevented the link from coming up in CR adapters.
ENHANCEMENTS
------------
BASE:
- Adds support for PAUSE OFF watchdog.
- Reports devlog access information in PCIE_FW_PF register 7.
ETH:
- Adds new interface to allow the driver to query the VI rss table base
addresses.
OFLD:
- Adds new interface for the driver to specify offloaded connections TCP snd
and rcv scale factors.
================================================================================
================================================================================
Version : 1.13.32.0
Date : 03/25/2015
================================================================================
FIXES
-----
BASE:
- Fixes FW_CAPS_CONFIG_CMD return value on error (was positive instead of
negative)
- Fixes FW_PARAMS_PARAM_DEV_FLOWC_BUFFIFO_SZ indication (was wrong on certain
adapter configurations)
- Fixes config file based PL_TIMEOUT register programming
ETH:
- Fixes a potential EO UDP SEG header corruption
OFLD:
- Fixes timeout issue with half-open connections
- Fixes FW_FLOWC_WR processing when state is set to finwait1
FOiSCSI:
- Don't create a new tcp socket if ERL0 attempt has timed out.
ENHANCEMENTS
------------
ETH:
- Stops sending LACP frames on loopback interface
- Adds an AUTOEQU indication to CPL_SGE_EGR_UPDATE
OFLD:
- Improves default settings of LAN and CLUSTER TCP timer settings
- Sends Negative Advice CPLs to software
================================================================================
================================================================================
Version : 1.12.25.0
Date : 10/22/2014
================================================================================
FIXES
-----
BASE:
- Improves precision of the Weight Round Robing Traffic Management Algorithm
- Forces link restart when auto-negotiation is disabled
- Fix an issue where pause frames wouldn't be fully disabled even if requested
DCBX:
- Fixes an issue where some settings were not being sent to the switch
correctly
- Fixes an issue where back-to-back DCBX port updates could get overwritten by
FW
- Fixes a firmware crash on DCBX APP information request before link up
FOiSCSI:
- Fixes abort task leak in tmf response handling
- Fixes TCP RST handling while in iSCSI ERL0
- Fixes a firmware crash on BYE without INIT
ENHANCEMENTS
------------
BASE:
- Adds link partner settings reporting when available
- Firmware now reports NOTSUPPORTED for modules with an unhandled identifier
DCBX:
- Adds version reporting (indicating which version FW is trying to negotiate)
- Adds IEEE support
- Reports LLDP time outs
FOiSCSI:
- Adds support for multiple iSCSI DDP clients
- Sends DHCP renew request when lease expires
================================================================================
Obtained from: Chelsio Communications
MFC after: 2 weeks
Sponsored by: Chelsio Communications
- The existing TCP INP_INFO lock continues to protect the global inpcb list
stability during full list traversal (e.g. tcp_pcblist()).
- A new INP_LIST lock protects inpcb list actual modifications (inp allocation
and free) and inpcb global counters.
It allows to use TCP INP_INFO_RLOCK lock in critical paths (e.g. tcp_input())
and INP_INFO_WLOCK only in occasional operations that walk all connections.
PR: 183659
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D2599
Reviewed by: jhb, adrian
Tested by: adrian, nitroboost-gmail.com
Sponsored by: Verisign, Inc.
Both are used to protect access to IP addresses lists and they can be
acquired for reading several times per packet. To reduce lock contention
it is better to use rmlock here.
Reviewed by: gnn (previous version)
Obtained from: Yandex LLC
Sponsored by: Yandex LLC
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D3149
save it for later. This enables direct manipulation of the indirection
tables (although the stock driver doesn't do that right now).
MFC after: 1 month
This commit contains large contributions from Giuseppe Lettieri and
Stefano Garzarella, is partly supported by grants from Verisign and Cisco,
and brings in the following:
- fix zerocopy monitor ports and introduce copying monitor ports
(the latter are lower performance but give access to all traffic
in parallel with the application)
- exclusive open mode, useful to implement solutions that recover
from crashes of the main netmap client (suggested by Patrick Kelsey)
- revised memory allocator in preparation for the 'passthrough mode'
(ptnetmap) recently presented at bsdcan. ptnetmap is described in
S. Garzarella, G. Lettieri, L. Rizzo;
Virtual device passthrough for high speed VM networking,
ACM/IEEE ANCS 2015, Oakland (CA) May 2015
http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/research.html
- fix rx CRC handing on ixl
- add module dependencies for netmap when building drivers as modules
- minor simplifications to device-specific routines (*txsync, *rxsync)
- general code cleanup (remove unused variables, introduce macros
to access rings and remove duplicate code,
Applications do not need to be recompiled, unless of course
they want to use the new features (monitors and exclusive open).
Those willing to try this code on stable/10 can just update the
sys/dev/netmap/*, sys/net/netmap* with the version in HEAD
and apply the small patches to individual device drivers.
MFC after: 1 month
Sponsored by: (partly) Verisign, Cisco
years for head. However, it is continuously misused as the mpsafe argument
for callout_init(9). Deprecate the flag and clean up callout_init() calls
to make them more consistent.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D2613
Reviewed by: jhb
MFC after: 2 weeks
handle_ddp_close() function in t4_ddp.c as the logic is similar
to handle_ddp_data(). This allows all knowledge of the special
DDP mbufs to be private to t4_ddp.c as well.
strings returned to userland include the nulterm byte.
Some uses of sbuf_new_for_sysctl() write binary data rather than strings;
clear the SBUF_INCLUDENUL flag after calling sbuf_new_for_sysctl() in
those cases. (Note that the sbuf code still automatically adds a nulterm
byte in sbuf_finish(), but since it's not included in the length it won't
get copied to userland along with the binary data.)
Remove explicit adding of a nulterm byte in a couple places now that it
gets done automatically by the sbuf drain code.
PR: 195668
netmap rx queues, and the "batchiness" of rx updates sent to the chip.
These knobs will probably become per-rxq in the near future and will be
documented only after their final form is decided.
MFC after: 1 month
It is disabled by default but users can set IFCAP_TXCSUM on the
netmap ifnet (ifconfig ncxl0 txcsum) to override netmap and force
the hardware to calculate and insert proper IP and L4 checksums in
outbound frames.
MFC after: 2 weeks
Highlights:
- Multiple verbs API updates
- Support for RoCE, RDMA over ethernet
All hardware drivers depending on the common infiniband stack has been
updated aswell.
Discussed with: np @
Sponsored by: Mellanox Technologies
MFC after: 1 month
Drivers (ULDs) and the base if_cxgbe driver.
Track the per-adapter activation of ULDs in a new "active_ulds" field.
This was done pretty arbitrarily before this change -- via TOM_INIT_DONE
in adapter->flags for TOM, and the (1 << MAX_NPORTS) bit in
adapter->offload_map for iWARP.
iWARP and hw-accelerated iSCSI rely on the TOE (supported by the TOM
ULD). The rules are:
a) If the iWARP and/or iSCSI ULDs are available when TOE is enabled then
iWARP and/or iSCSI are enabled too.
b) When the iWARP and iSCSI modules are loaded they go looking for
adapters with TOE enabled and enable themselves on that adapter.
c) You cannot deactivate or unload the TOM module from underneath iWARP
or iSCSI. Any such attempt will fail with EBUSY.
MFC after: 2 weeks
a dependency. This ensures "ifconfig cxl<n> ..." does the right thing
even when it's run with no driver loaded.
if_cxl.ko is the tiniest module in /boot/kernel.
MFC after: 2 weeks
the no-longer existant sb_cc sockbuf member.
- Use sbavail() instead of sbused() in t4_soreceive_ddp() to match the
usage in soreceive_stream() on which it is based.
Discussed with: glebius (2)
"MODULE_VERSION" macro definition. Remove the redefinition of the
"MODULE_VERSION" macro from the Linux kernel compatibility API.
MFC after: 1 month
Reported by: np@
Sponsored by: Mellanox Technologies
