CPU for too long period than necessary. Additively, interfaces are kept
polled (in the tick) even if no more packets are available.
In order to avoid such situations a new generic mechanism can be
implemented in proactive way, keeping track of the time spent on any
packet and fragmenting the time for any tick, stopping the processing
as soon as possible.
In order to implement such mechanism, the polling handler needs to
change, returning the number of packets processed.
While the intended logic is not part of this patch, the polling KPI is
broken by this commit, adding an int return value and the new flag
IFCAP_POLLING_NOCOUNT (which will signal that the return value is
meaningless for the installed handler and checking should be skipped).
Bump __FreeBSD_version in order to signal such situation.
Reviewed by: emaste
Sponsored by: Sandvine Incorporated
network load.
1. Leave the RX interrupt routine if there is no mbuf available.
2. Properly initialize and track tx_desc_used_count counter so as not to
leak mbuf while traversing used descriptors.
Obtained from: Semihalf
This supports 1Gbps Ethernet engine found on ARM-based SOCs (Orion, Kirkwood,
Discovery), as well as on system controllers for PowerPC processors (MV64430,
MV6446x).
The following advanced features are supported:
- multicast
- VLAN tagging
- IP/TCP/UDP checksum calculation offloading
- polling
- interrupt coalescing
Obtained from: Marvell, Semihalf
