DCTCP congestion control algorithm aims to maximise throughput and minimise
latency in data center networks by utilising the proportion of Explicit
Congestion Notification (ECN) marked packets received from capable hardware as a
congestion signal.
Highlights:
Implemented as a mod_cc(4) module.
ECN (Explicit congestion notification) processing is done differently from
RFC3168.
Takes one-sided DCTCP into consideration where only one of the sides is using
DCTCP and other is using standard ECN.
IETF draft: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-bensley-tcpm-dctcp-00
Thesis report by Midori Kato: https://eggert.org/students/kato-thesis.pdf
Submitted by: Midori Kato <katoon@sfc.wide.ad.jp> and
Lars Eggert <lars@netapp.com>
with help and modifications from
hiren
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D604
Reviewed by: gnn
roughly 10 years, and the driver has not enjoyed any significant maintenance
since long before that. Despite well-meaning efforts from a number of
people, myself included, it never made the jump to 64-bit and was relegated
to the back-corners of i386. Now its frailty is hampering forward progress
with Clang. Any renewed engineering efforts are of course welcome and can
happen outside of the tree. No MFC of this is planned.
- bootparamd
- bootpd
- finger/fingerd
- ftp/ftpd
- hastctl/hastd
- iscsid, et al
- rbootd
- talk/talkd
- tcpd, et al
- tftp/tftpd
Add src.conf entries for the various components and do a best effort
at adding components to tools/build/mk/OptionalObsoleteFiles.inc
have chosen different (and more traditional) stateless/statuful
NAT64 as translation mechanism. Last non-trivial commits to both
faith(4) and faithd(8) happened more than 12 years ago, so I assume
it is time to drop RFC3142 in FreeBSD.
No objections from: net@
Split it into two modules: if_gre(4) for GRE encapsulation and
if_me(4) for minimal encapsulation within IP.
gre(4) changes:
* convert to if_transmit;
* rework locking: protect access to softc with rmlock,
protect from concurrent ioctls with sx lock;
* correct interface accounting for outgoing datagramms (count only payload size);
* implement generic support for using IPv6 as delivery header;
* make implementation conform to the RFC 2784 and partially to RFC 2890;
* add support for GRE checksums - calculate for outgoing datagramms and check
for inconming datagramms;
* add support for sending sequence number in GRE header;
* remove support of cached routes. This fixes problem, when gre(4) doesn't
work at system startup. But this also removes support for having tunnels with
the same addresses for inner and outer header.
* deprecate support for various GREXXX ioctls, that doesn't used in FreeBSD.
Use our standard ioctls for tunnels.
me(4):
* implementation conform to RFC 2004;
* use if_transmit;
* use the same locking model as gre(4);
PR: 164475
Differential Revision: D1023
No objections from: net@
Relnotes: yes
Sponsored by: Yandex LLC
Support for the multiport feature is mostly implemented, but currently
disabled due to some potential races in the hot plug code paths.
Requested by: marcel
MFC after: 1 month
Relnotes: yes
vxlan creates a virtual LAN by encapsulating the inner Ethernet frame in
a UDP packet. This implementation is based on RFC7348.
Currently, the IPv6 support is not fully compliant with the specification:
we should be able to receive UPDv6 packets with a zero checksum, but we
need to support RFC6935 first. Patches for this should come soon.
Encapsulation protocols such as vxlan emphasize the need for the FreeBSD
network stack to support batching, GRO, and GSO. Each frame has to make
two trips through the network stack, and each frame will be at most MTU
sized. Performance suffers accordingly.
Some latest generation NICs have begun to support vxlan HW offloads that
we should also take advantage of. VIMAGE support should also be added soon.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D384
Reviewed by: gnn
Relnotes: yes
ismt(4) supports the SMBus Message Transport controller found on Intel
C2000 series (Avoton) and S1200 series (Briarwood) Atom SoCs.
Sponsored by: Intel
This driver supports the low and high precision models (9 and 11 bits) and
it will auto-detect the both variants.
The driver expose the temperature registers (actual temperature, shutdown
and hysteresys temperature) and also the configuration register.
It was tested on FDT systems: RPi, BBB and on non-FDT systems: AR71xx, with
both, hardware i2c controllers (when available) and gpioiic(4).
This provides a simple and cheap way for verifying the i2c bus on embedded
systems.
cards. LSI has been maintaining this driver outside of the FreeBSD
tree. It overlaps support of ThunderBolt and Invader cards that mfi(4)
supports. By default mfi(4) will attach to cards. If the tunable:
hw.mfi.mrsas_enable=1
is set then mfi(4) will not probe and attach to these newer cards and
allow mrsas(4) to attach. So by default this driver will not effect
a FreeBSD system unless mfi(4) is removed from the kernel or the
tunable is enabled.
mrsas(4) attaches disks to the CAM layer so it depends on CAM and devices
show up as /dev/daX. mfiutil(8) does not work with mrsas. The FreeBSD
version of MegaCli and StorCli from LSI do work with mrsas. It appears
that StorCli only works with mrsas. MegaCli appears to work with mfi(4)
and mrsas(4).
It would be good to add mfiutil(4) support to mrsas, emulations modes,
kernel logging, device aliases to ease the transition between mfi(4)
and mrsas(4).
Style issues should be resolved by LSI when they get committers approved.
The plan is get this driver in FreeBSD 9.3 to improve HW support.
Thanks to LSI for developing, testing and working with FreeBSD to
make this driver co-exist in FreeBSD. This improves the overall
support of MegaRAID SAS.
Submitted by: Kashyap Desai <Kashyap.Desai@lsi.com>
Reviewed by: scottl
MFC after: 3 days
Sponsored by: LSI
This should have been included in r265236.
Submitted by: Steve McConnell <Stephen.McConnell@lsi.com>
MFC after: 3 days
Sponsored by: LSI, Spectra Logic
lindev(4) was only used to provide /dev/full which is now a standard feature of
FreeBSD. /dev/full was never linux-specific and provides a generally useful
feature.
Document this in UPDATING and bump __FreeBSD_version. This will be documented
in the PH shortly.
Reported by: jkim
It exposes I/O resources to user space, so that programs can peek
and poke at the hardware. It does not itself have knowledge about
the hardware device it attaches to.
Sponsored by: Juniper Networks, Inc.
NetFPGA-10G Embedded CPU Ethernet Core.
The current version operates on a simple PIO based interface connected
to a NetFPGA-10G port.
To avoid confusion: this driver operates on a CPU running on the FPGA,
e.g. BERI/mips, and is not suited for the PCI host interface.
MFC after: 1 week
Relnotes: yes
Sponsored by: DARPA/AFRL
IPX was a network transport protocol in Novell's NetWare network operating
system from late 80s and then 90s. The NetWare itself switched to TCP/IP
as default transport in 1998. Later, in this century the Novell Open
Enterprise Server became successor of Novell NetWare. The last release
that claimed to still support IPX was OES 2 in 2007. Routing equipment
vendors (e.g. Cisco) discontinued support for IPX in 2011.
Thus, IPX won't be supported in FreeBSD 11.0-RELEASE.
which deals with the "ix prefix being shared by two drivers"
situation is forthcoming.
Thanks to dwhite for the ixgbe history lesson.
MFC after: 1 week
adapters. Both devices support Gigabit Ethernet and USB 2.0, and the AX88179
supports USB 3.0. The driver was written by kevlo@ and lwhsu@, with a few
bug fixes from me.
MFC after: 2 months
There is no reason to keep the two knobs separate: if tests are
enabled, the ATF libraries are required; and if tests are disabled,
the ATF libraries are not necessary. Keeping the two just serves
to complicate the build.
Reviewed by: freebsd-testing
Approved by: rpaulo (mentor)