XX_VirtToPhys(), by way of pmap_kextract(), is an expensive operation.
Profiling via dtrace during a series of iperf tests I found 16111 / 30432
stack frames were located in mmu_booke_kextract(), so eliminating this
expensive call should improve performance slightly. XX_PhysToVirt() is not
as expensive, but redundant calls in this context is wasteful.
Rework the dTSEC and FMan drivers to be more like a full bus relationship,
so that dtsec can use bus_alloc_resource() instead of trying to handle the
offset from the dts. This required taking some code from the sparc64 ebus
driver to allow subdividing the fman region for the dTSEC devices.
This adds some support for ARM as well as 64-bit. 64-bit on PowerPC is
currently not working, and ARM support has not been completed or tested on the
FreeBSD side.
As this was imported from a Linux tree, it includes some Linux-isms
(ioread/iowrite), so compile with the LinuxKPI for now. This may change in the
future.
All of these arguments are stored in m_ext, so there is no reason
to pass them in the argument list. Not all functions need the second
argument, some don't even need the first one. The second argument
lives in next cache line, so not dereferencing it is a performance
gain. This was discovered in sendfile(2), which will be covered by
next commits.
The second goal of this commit is to bring even more flexibility
to m_ext mbufs, allowing to create more fields in m_ext, opaque to
the generic mbuf code, and potentially set and dereferenced by
subsystems.
Reviewed by: gallatin, kbowling
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D12615
Drop the tracking down to the pmap layer, with optimizations to only track
necessary pages. This should give a (slight) performance improvement, as well
as a stability improvement, as the tracking is already mostly handled by the
pmap layer.
Linux has a slightly different device tree definition for DPAA than originally
done in the FreeBSD driver. This changes the driver to be mostly compatible
with the Linux device tree definitions. Currently the differences are:
bman-portals: compatible = "fsl,bman-portals" (Linux is "simple-bus")
qman-portals: compatible = "fsl,qman-portals" (Linux is "simple-bus")
fman: compatible = "fsl,fman" (Linux is "simple-bus")
The Linux device tree doesn't specify anything for rgmii in the mdio. This
change still requires the device tree to specify the phy-handle, and doesn't yet
support tbi.
Freescale's QorIQ line includes a new ethernet controller, based on their
Datapath Acceleration Architecture (DPAA). This uses a combination of a Frame
manager, Buffer manager, and Queue manager to improve performance across all
interfaces by being able to pass data directly between hardware acceleration
interfaces.
As part of this import, Freescale's Netcomm Software (ncsw) driver is imported.
This was an attempt by Freescale to create an OS-agnostic sub-driver for
managing the hardware, using shims to interface to the OS-specific APIs. This
work was abandoned, and Freescale's primary work is in the Linux driver (dual
BSD/GPL license). Hence, this was imported directly to sys/contrib, rather than
going through the vendor area. Going forward, FreeBSD-specific changes may be
made to the ncsw code, diverging from the upstream in potentially incompatible
ways. An alternative could be to import the Linux driver itself, using the
linuxKPI layer, as that would maintain parity with the vendor-maintained driver.
However, the Linux driver has not been evaluated for reliability yet, and may
have issues with the import, whereas the ncsw-based driver in this commit was
completed by Semihalf 4 years ago, and is very stable.
Other SoC modules based on DPAA, which could be added in the future:
* Security and Encryption engine (SEC4.x, SEC5.x)
* RAID engine
Additional work to be done:
* Implement polling mode
* Test vlan support
* Add support for the Pattern Matching Engine, which can do regular expression
matching on packets.
This driver has been tested on the P5020 QorIQ SoC. Others listed in the
dtsec(4) manual page are expected to work as the same DPAA engine is included in
all.
Obtained from: Semihalf
Relnotes: Yes
Sponsored by: Alex Perez/Inertial Computing
