Quite contrary to VT6130 datasheet which says it supports up to 8K
jumbo frame, VT6130 does not seem to send jumbo frame that is
larger than 4K in length. Trying to send a frame that is larger
than 4K cause TX MAC hang.
Even though it's possible to allow 4K jumbo frame for VT6130, I
think it's meaningless to allow 4K jumbo frame. I'm not sure VT6132
also has the same limitation but I guess it uses the same MAC of
VT6130.
controllers. TX/RX interrupt mitigation is controlled by
VGE_TXSUPPTHR and VGE_RXSUPPTHR register. These registers suppress
generation of interrupts until the programmed frames counter equals
to the registers. VT61xx also supports interrupt hold off timer
register. If this interrupt hold off timer is active all interrupts
would be disabled until the timer reaches to 0. The timer value is
reloaded whenever VGE_ISR register written. The timer resolution is
about 20us.
Previously vge(4) used single shot timer to reduce Tx completion
interrupts. This required VGE_CRS1 register access in Tx
start/completion handler to rearm new timeout value and it did not
show satisfactory result(more than 50k interrupts under load). Rx
interrupts was not moderated at all such that vge(4) used to
generate too many interrupts which in turn made polling(4) better
approach under high network load.
This change activates all interrupt moderation mechanism and
initial values were tuned to generate interrupt less than 8k per
second. That number of interrupts wouldn't add additional packet
latencies compared to polling(4). These interrupt parameters could
be changed with sysctl.
dev.vge.%d.int_holdoff
dev.vge.%d.rx_coal_pkt
dev.vge.%d.tx_coal_pkt
Interface has be brought down and up again before change take
effect.
With interrupt moderation there is no more need to loop in
interrupt handler. This loop always added one more register access.
While I'm here remove dead code which tried to implement subset of
interrupt moderation.
ethernet controller was recognized. VIA consistently calls
"Velocity" family for gigabit ethernet controllers. For fast
ethernet controllers they uses "Rhine" family(vr(4) controllers))
and vr(4) already shows "Rhine" in probe message.
tagged frames so add checksum offloading capabilities. Also add
missing VLAN hardware tagging control in ioctl handler and let
upper stack know current VLAN capabilities.
after ether_ifattach(), as ether_ifattach() initializes it with
ETHER_HDR_LEN.
While I'm here remove setting if_mtu, it's already handled in
ether_ifattach().
called and vge(4) used to drive auto-negotiation timer(mii_tick) in
vge_tick(). Therefore the mii_tick was not called for every hz such
that auto-negotiation complete was never handled in vge(4).
Use mii_pollstat to extract current negotiated speed/duplex instead
of mii_tick. The latter is valid only for auto-negotiation case.
While I'm here change the confusing function name vge_tick() to
vge_link_statchg().
is called in vge_init_lock(), vge(4) always used to reload EEPROM.
Also add more comment why vge(4) clears VGE_CHIPCFG0_PACPI bit.
While I'm here add missing new line in vge_reset().
controllers(VT613x), we assume the PHY address is 1.
Use the saved PHY address in MII register access routines and
remove accessing VGE_MIICFG register.
While I'm here save PCI express capability register which will be
used in near future.
record device specific bits. Remove vge_link and use vge_flags.
While here, move clearing link state before mii_mediachg() as
mii_mediachg() may affect link state.
seems to work like a tag that indicates 'not list end' of queued
frames. Without having a VGE_TXDESC_Q bit indicates 'list end'. So
the last frame of multiple queued frames has no VGE_TXDESC_Q bit.
The hardware has peculiar behavior for VGE_TXDESC_Q bit handling.
If the VGE_TXDESC_Q bit of descriptor was set the controller would
fetch next descriptor. However if next descriptor's OWN bit was
cleared but VGE_TXDESC_Q was set, it could confuse controller.
Clearing VGE_TXDESC_Q bit for transmitted frames ensure correct
behavior.
o Separate TX/RX buffer DMA tag from TX/RX descriptor ring DMA tag.
o Separate RX buffer DMA tag from common buffer DMA tag. RX DMA
tag has different restriction compared to TX DMA tag.
o Add 40bit DMA address support.
o Adjust TX/RX descriptor ring alignment to 64 bytes from 256
bytes as documented in datasheet.
o Added check to ensure TX/RX ring reside within a 4GB boundary.
Since TX/RX ring shares the same high address register they
should have the same high address.
o TX/RX side bus_dmamap_load_mbuf_sg(9) support.
o Add lock assertion to vge_setmulti().
o Add RX spare DMA map to recover from DMA map load failure.
o Add optimized RX buffer handler, vge_discard_rxbuf which is
activated when vge(4) sees bad frames.
o Don't blindly update VGE_RXDESC_RESIDUECNT register. Datasheet
says the register should be updated only when number of
available RX descriptors are multiple of 4.
o Use __NO_STRICT_ALIGNMENT instead of defining VGE_FIXUP_RX which
is only set for i386 architecture. Previously vge(4) also
performed expensive copy operation to align IP header on amd64.
This change should give RX performance boost on amd64
architecture.
o Don't reinitialize controller if driver is already running. This
should reduce number of link state flipping.
o Since vge(4) drops a driver lock before passing received frame
to upper layer, make sure vge(4) is still running after
re-acquiring driver lock.
o Add second argument count to vge_rxeof(). The argument will
limit number of packets could be processed in RX handler.
o Rearrange vge_rxeof() not to allocate RX buffer if received
frame was bad packet.
o Removed if_printf that prints DMA map failure. This type of
message shouldn't be used in fast path of driver.
o Reduce number of allowed TX buffer fragments to 6 from 7. A TX
descriptor allows 7 fragments of a frame. However the CMZ field
of descriptor has just 3bits and the controller wants to see
fragment + 1 in the field. So if we have 7 fragments the field
value would be 0 which seems to cause unexpected results under
certain conditions. This change should fix occasional TX hang
observed on vge(4).
o Simplify vge_stat_locked() and add number of available TX
descriptor check.
o vge(4) controllers lack padding short frames. Make sure to fill
zero for the padded bytes. This closes unintended information
disclosure.
o Don't set VGE_TDCTL_JUMBO flag. Datasheet is not clear whether
this bit should be set by driver or write-back status bit after
transmission. At least vendor's driver does not set this bit so
remove it. Without this bit vge(4) still can send jumbo frames.
o Don't start driver when vge(4) know there are not enough RX
buffers.
o Remove volatile keyword in RX descriptor structure. This should
be handled by bus_dma(9).
o Collapse two 16bits member of TX/RX descriptor into single 32bits
member.
o Reduce number of RX descriptors to 252 from 256. The
VGE_RXDESCNUM is 16bits register but only lower 8bits are valid.
So the maximum number of RX descriptors would be 255. However
the number of should be multiple of 4 as controller wants to
update 4 RX descriptors at a time. This limits the maximum
number of RX descriptor to be 252.
Tested by: Dewayne Geraghty (dewayne.geraghty <> heuristicsystems dot com dot au)
Carey Jones (m.carey.jones <> gmail dot com)
Yoshiaki Kasahara (kasahara <> nc dor kyushu-u dot ac dotjp)
was made in r199543 to remove MTX_RECURSE. These routines can be
called in device attach phase(e.g. mii_phy_probe()) so checking
assertion here is not right as caller does not hold a driver lock.
- Overhaul the locking to avoid recursion and add missing locking in a few
places.
- Don't schedule a task to call vge_start() from contexts that are safe to
call vge_start() directly. Just invoke the routine directly instead
(this is what all of the other NIC drivers I am familiar with do). Note
that vge(4) does not use an interrupt filter handler which is the primary
reason some other drivers use tasks.
- Add a new private timer to drive the watchdog timer instead of using
if_watchdog and if_timer.
- Fixup detach by calling ether_ifdetach() before stopping the interface.
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
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
can be controlled by ifconfig(8). Note, VLAN hardware tagging
controls still lacks required handler but it requires more driver
cleanups so I didn't touch that part.
PR: kern/128766
If these drivers are setting M_VLANTAG because they are stripping the
layer 2 802.1Q headers, then they need to be re-inserting them so any
bpf(4) peers can properly decode them.
It should be noted that this is compiled tested only.
MFC after: 3 weeks
machines and both TX and RX were broken on big-endian machines.
The chip design is crazy -- on RX, it puts the 16-bit VLAN tag
in network byte order (big-endian) in the 32-bit little-endian
register!
Thanks to John Baldwin for helping me document this change! ;-)
Tested by: sat (amd64), test program (sparc64)
PR: kern/105054
MFC after: 3 days
m_pkthdr.ether_vlan. The presence of the M_VLANTAG flag on the mbuf
signifies the presence and validity of its content.
Drivers that support hardware VLAN tag stripping fill in the received
VLAN tag (containing both vlan and priority information) into the
ether_vtag mbuf packet header field:
m->m_pkthdr.ether_vtag = vlan_id; /* ntohs()? */
m->m_flags |= M_VLANTAG;
to mark the packet m with the specified VLAN tag.
On output the driver should check the mbuf for the M_VLANTAG flag to
see if a VLAN tag is present and valid:
if (m->m_flags & M_VLANTAG) {
... = m->m_pkthdr.ether_vtag; /* htons()? */
... pass tag to hardware ...
}
VLAN tags are stored in host byte order. Byte swapping may be necessary.
(Note: This driver conversion was mechanic and did not add or remove any
byte swapping in the drivers.)
Remove zone_mtag_vlan UMA zone and MTAG_VLAN definition. No more tag
memory allocation have to be done.
Reviewed by: thompsa, yar
Sponsored by: TCP/IP Optimization Fundraise 2005
case if memory allocation failed.
- Remove fourth argument from VLAN_INPUT_TAG(), that was used
incorrectly in almost all drivers. Indicate failure with
mbuf value of NULL.
In collaboration with: yongari, ru, sam
