(or direct dispatch) behind the TXQ lock (which, remember, is doubling
as the TID lock too for now.)
This ensures that:
(a) the sequence number and the CCMP PN allocation is done together;
(b) overlapping transmit paths don't interleave frames, so we don't
end up with the original issue that triggered kern/166190.
Ie, that we don't end up with seqno A, B in thread 1, C, D in
thread 2, and they being queued to the software queue as "A C D B"
or similar, leading to the BAW stalls.
This has been tested:
* both STA and AP modes with INVARIANTS and WITNESS;
* TCP and UDP TX;
* both STA->AP and AP->STA.
STA is a Routerstation Pro (single CPU MIPS) and the AP is a dual-core
Centrino.
PR: kern/166190
scheduled from the head of the software queue rather than trying to
queue the newly given frame.
This leads to some rather unfortunate out of order (but still valid
as it's inside the BAW) frame TX.
This now:
* Always queues the frame at the end of the software queue;
* Tries to direct dispatch the frame at the head of the software queue,
to try and fill up the hardware queue.
TODO:
* I should likely try to queue as many frames to the hardware as I can
at this point, rather than doing one at a time;
* ath_tx_xmit_aggr() may fail and this code assumes that it'll schedule
the TID. Otherwise TX may stall.
PR: kern/166190
This is an unfortunate byproduct of how the routine is used - it's called
with the head frame on the queue, but if the frame is failed, it's inserted
into the tail of the queue.
Because of this, the sequence numbers would get all shuffled around and
the BAW would be bumped past this sequence number, that's now at the
end of the software queue. Then, whenever it's time for that frame
to be transmitted, it'll be immediately outside of the BAW and TX will
stall until the BAW catches up.
It can also result in all kinds of weird duplicate BAW frames, leading
to hilarious panics.
PR: kern/166190
This showed up when doing heavy UDP throughput on SMP machines.
The problem with this is because the 802.11 sequence number is being
allocated separately to the CCMP PN replay number (which is assigned
during ieee80211_crypto_encap()).
Under significant throughput (200+ MBps) the TX path would be stressed
enough that frame TX/retry would force sequence number and PN allocation
to be out of order. So once the frames were reordered via 802.11 seqnos,
the CCMP PN would be far out of order, causing most frames to be discarded
by the receiver.
I've fixed this in some local work by being forced to:
(a) deal with the issues that lead to the parallel TX causing out of
order sequence numbers in the first place;
(b) fix all the packet queuing issues which lead to strange (but mostly
valid) TX.
I'll begin fixing these in a subsequent commit or five.
PR: kern/166190
Return PROTO_ATA protocol in response to XPT_PATH_INQ.
smartmontools uses it to identify ATA devices and I don't know any other
place now where it is important. It could probably use XPT_GDEV_TYPE
instead for more accurate protocol information, but let it live for now.
Reported by: matthew
MFC after: 3 days
suspend/resume procedures are minimized among them.
common:
- Add global cpuset suspended_cpus to indicate APs are suspended/resumed.
- Remove acpi_waketag and acpi_wakemap from acpivar.h (no longer used).
- Add some variables in acpi_wakecode.S in order to minimize the difference
among amd64 and i386.
- Disable load_cr3() because now CR3 is restored in resumectx().
amd64:
- Add suspend/resume related members (such as MSR) in PCB.
- Modify savectx() for above new PCB members.
- Merge acpi_switch.S into cpu_switch.S as resumectx().
i386:
- Merge(and remove) suspendctx() into savectx() in order to match with
amd64 code.
Reviewed by: attilio@, acpi@
until transport will do some probe actions (at least soft reset).
Make ATA/SATA SIMs to not report bogus and confusing PROTO_ATA protocol.
Make ATA/SATA transport to fill that gap by reporting protocol to SIM with
XPT_SET_TRAN_SETTINGS and patching XPT_GET_TRAN_SETTINGS results if needed.
Put a bandaid to prevent ixgbe(4) from completely locking up the system
under high load. Our platform has a few CPU cores and a single active
ixgbe(4) port with 4 queues. Under high enough traffic load, at about
7.5GBs and 700,000 packets/sec (outbound), the entire system would
deadlock. What we found was that each CPU was in an endless loop on a
different ix taskqueue thread. The OACTIVE flag had gotten set on each
queue, and the ixgbe_handle_queue() function was continuously rescheduling
itself via the taskqueue_enqueue. Since all CPUs were busy with their
taskqueue threads, the ixgbe_local_timer() function couldn't run to clear
the OACTIVE flag.
Submitted by: scottl
MFC after: 1 week
it turns out that it negatively affects performance. I'm stil investigating
exactly why deferring the IO causes such negative TCP performance but
doesn't affect UDP preformance.
Leave the ath_tx_kick() change in there however; it's going to be useful
to have that there for if_transmit() work.
PR: kern/168649
called to "kick" along TX.
For now, schedule a taskqueue call.
Later on I may go back to the direct call of ath_rx_tasklet() - but for
now, this will do.
I've tested UDP and TCP TX. UDP TX still achieves 240MBit, but TCP
TX gets stuck at around 100MBit or so, instead of the 150MBit it should
be at. I'll re-test with no ACPI/power/sleep states enabled at startup
and see what effect it has.
This is in preparation for supporting an if_transmit() path, which will
turn ath_tx_kick() into a NUL operation (as there won't be an ifnet
queue to service.)
Tested:
* AR9280 STA
TODO:
* test on AR5416, AR9160, AR928x STA/AP modes
PR: kern/168649
implementing parallel TX and TX/RX completion can be done without
simply abusing long-held locks.
Right now, multiple concurrent ath_start() entries can result in
frames being dequeued out of order. Well, they're dequeued in order
fine, but if there's any preemption or race between CPUs between:
* removing the frame from the ifnet, and
* calling and runningath_tx_start(), until the frame is placed on a
software or hardware TXQ
Then although dequeueing the frame is in-order, queueing it to the hardware
may be out of order.
This is solved in a lot of other drivers by just holding a TX lock over
a rather long period of time. This lets them continue to direct dispatch
without races between dequeue and hardware queue.
Note to observers: if_transmit() doesn't necessarily solve this.
It removes the ifnet from the main path, but the same issue exists if
there's some intermediary queue (eg a bufring, which as an aside also
may pull in ifnet when you're using ALTQ.)
So, until I can sit down and code up a much better way of doing parallel
TX, I'm going to leave the TX path using a deferred taskqueue task.
What I will likely head towards is doing a direct dispatch to hardware
or software via if_transmit(), but it'll require some driver changes to
allow queues to be made without using the really large ath_buf / ath_desc
entries.
TODO:
* Look at how feasible it'll be to just do direct dispatch to
ath_tx_start() from if_transmit(), avoiding doing _any_ intermediary
serialisation into a global queue. This may break ALTQ for example,
so I have to be delicate.
* It's quite likely that I should break up ath_tx_start() so it
deposits frames onto the software queues first, and then only fill
in the 802.11 fields when it's being queued to the hardware.
That will make the if_transmit() -> software queue path very
quick and lightweight.
* This has some very bad behaviour when using ACPI and Cx states.
I'll do some subsequent analysis using KTR and schedgraph and file
a follow-up PR or two.
PR: kern/168649
EARLY_BUILD macro: the -Qunused-arguments flag isn't passed anymore when
building this particular program. However, with clang 3.1 and -Werror,
such unused argument warnings are flagged as errors, causing buildkernel
to fail at this stage, due to the -nostdinc flag passed during linking.
Since the -nostdinc flag isn't actually needed, just remove it.
X-MFC-With: r236528
- Make the device description match the driver name.
- Identify the chip variant based on the JEDEC and use that information
to use the proper values for page count, offset and size instead of
hardcoding a AT45DB642x with 2^N byte page support disabled.
- Take advantage of bioq_takefirst().
- Given that CONTINUOUS_ARRAY_READ_HF (0x0b) command isn't even mentioned
in Atmel's DataFlash Application Note, as suggested by the previous
comment may not work on all all devices and actually doesn't properly
on at least AT45DB321D (JEDEC 0x1f2701), rewrite at45d_task() to use
CONTINUOUS_ARRAY_READ (0xe8) for reading instead. This rewrite is laid
out in a way allowing to easily add support for BIO_DELETE later on.
- Add support for reads and writes not starting on a page boundary.
- Verify the flash content after writing.
- Let at45d_task() gracefully handle errors on SPI transfers and the
device not becoming ready afterwards again. [1]
- Use DEVMETHOD_END. [1]
- Use NULL instead of 0 for pointers. [1]
Additional testing by: Ian Lepore
Submitted by: Ian Lepore [1]
MFC after: 1 week
Make the default role NONE if target mode is selected. This
allows ctl(8) to switch to/from target mode via knob settings.
If we default to role 'none', this causes a reset of the
24XX f/w which then causes initiators to wake up and notice
when we come online.
Reviewed by: kdm
MFC after: 2 weeks
Sponsored by: Spectralogic
(described in ACPICA source code).
- Move intr_disable() and intr_restore() from acpi_wakeup.c to acpi.c
and call AcpiLeaveSleepStatePrep() in interrupt disabled context.
- Add acpi_wakeup_machdep() to execute wakeup MD procedures and call
it twice in interrupt disabled/enabled context (ia64 version is
just dummy).
- Rename wakeup_cpus variable in acpi_sleep_machdep() to suspcpus in
order to be shared by acpi_sleep_machdep() and acpi_wakeup_machdep().
- Move identity mapping related code to acpi_install_wakeup_handler()
(i386 version) for preparation of x86/acpica/acpi_wakeup.c
(MFC candidate).
Reviewed by: jkim@
MFC after: 2 days
DEVICE_RESUME() should be done before AcpiLeaveSleepState() because
PCI config space evaluation can be occurred during control method
executions.
This should fix one of the hang up problems on resuming.
MFC after: 3 days
