The current TSO limitation feature only takes the total number of
bytes in an mbuf chain into account and does not limit by the number
of mbufs in a chain. Some kinds of hardware is limited by two
factors. One is the fragment length and the second is the fragment
count. Both of these limits need to be taken into account when doing
TSO. Else some kinds of hardware might have to drop completely valid
mbuf chains because they cannot loaded into the given hardware's DMA
engine. The new way of doing TSO limitation has been made backwards
compatible as input from other FreeBSD developers and will use
defaults for values not set.
MFC after: 1 week
Sponsored by: Mellanox Technologies
These changes prevent sysctl(8) from returning proper output,
such as:
1) no output from sysctl(8)
2) erroneously returning ENOMEM with tools like truss(1)
or uname(1)
truss: can not get etype: Cannot allocate memory
there is an environment variable which shall initialize the SYSCTL
during early boot. This works for all SYSCTL types both statically and
dynamically created ones, except for the SYSCTL NODE type and SYSCTLs
which belong to VNETs. A new flag, CTLFLAG_NOFETCH, has been added to
be used in the case a tunable sysctl has a custom initialisation
function allowing the sysctl to still be marked as a tunable. The
kernel SYSCTL API is mostly the same, with a few exceptions for some
special operations like iterating childrens of a static/extern SYSCTL
node. This operation should probably be made into a factored out
common macro, hence some device drivers use this. The reason for
changing the SYSCTL API was the need for a SYSCTL parent OID pointer
and not only the SYSCTL parent OID list pointer in order to quickly
generate the sysctl path. The motivation behind this patch is to avoid
parameter loading cludges inside the OFED driver subsystem. Instead of
adding special code to the OFED driver subsystem to post-load tunables
into dynamically created sysctls, we generalize this in the kernel.
Other changes:
- Corrected a possibly incorrect sysctl name from "hw.cbb.intr_mask"
to "hw.pcic.intr_mask".
- Removed redundant TUNABLE statements throughout the kernel.
- Some minor code rewrites in connection to removing not needed
TUNABLE statements.
- Added a missing SYSCTL_DECL().
- Wrapped two very long lines.
- Avoid malloc()/free() inside sysctl string handling, in case it is
called to initialize a sysctl from a tunable, hence malloc()/free() is
not ready when sysctls from the sysctl dataset are registered.
- Bumped FreeBSD version to indicate SYSCTL API change.
MFC after: 2 weeks
Sponsored by: Mellanox Technologies
was stacked on top of network interfaces that set if_hw_tsomax,
tcp_output() would see the default value instead of the value
set by the network interface(s). This patch modifies lagg so that
it sets if_hw_tsomax to the minimum of the value(s) for the
underlying network interfaces.
Reviewed by: glebius
MFC after: 2 weeks
callback providers. link_init_sdl() function can be used to
fill most of the parameters. Use caller stack instead of
allocation / freing memory for each request. Do not drop support
for extra-long (probably non-existing) link-layer protocols by
introducing link_alloc_sdl() (used by if_resolvemulti() callback)
and link_free_sdl() (used by caller).
Since this change breaks KBI, MFC requires slightly different approach
(link_init_sdl() auto-allocating buffer if necessary to handle cases
with unmodified if_resolvemulti() callers).
MFC after: 2 weeks
bits of the flowid as each other, resulting in a poor distribution of
packets among queues in certain cases. Work around this by adding a
set of sysctls for controlling a bit-shift on the flowid when doing
multi-port aggrigation in lagg and lacp. By default, lagg/lacp will
now use bits 16 and higher instead of 0 and higher.
Reviewed by: max
Obtained from: Netflix
MFC after: 3 days
and there are ifnets, that do that via counter(9). Provide a flag that
would skip cache line trashing '+=' operation in ether_input().
Sponsored by: Netflix
Sponsored by: Nginx, Inc.
Reviewed by: melifaro, adrian
Approved by: re (marius)
We've been seeing lots of cache line contention (but not lock contention!)
in our workloads between the various TX and RX threads going on.
The write lock is only grabbed when configuration changes are made - which
are infrequent.
With this patch, the contention and cycles spent waiting for updates
disappear.
Sponsored by: Netflix, Inc.
sysctl tree.
* Create a net.link.lagg.X.lacp node
* Add a debug node under that for tx_test and rx_test
* Add lacp_strict_mode, defaulting to 1
tx_test and rx_test are still a bitmap of unit numbers for now.
At some point it would be nice to create child nodes of the lagg bundle
for each sub-interface, and then populate those with various knobs
and statistics.
Sponsored by: Netflix
additions.
* Add some new tracing events to aid in debugging.
* Add in a debugging mode to drop transmit and received frames, specifically
to test whether seeing or hearing heartbeats correctly cause LACP to
drop the port.
* Add in (and make default) a strict LACP mode, which requires the
heartbeat on a port to be heard before it's used. Sometimes vendor ports
will hang but the link layer stays up, resulting in hung traffic.
* Add logging the number of link status flaps, again to aid in debugging
badly behaving switch ports.
* Calculate the lagg interface port speed as the multiple of the
configured ports, rather than the largest.
Obtained from: Netflix
MFC after: 2 weeks
is initialized with !ND6_IFF_AUTO_LINKLOCAL && !ND6_IFF_ACCEPT_RTADV
regardless of net.inet6.ip6.accept_rtadv and net.inet6.ip6.auto_linklocal.
To configure an autoconfigured link-local address (RFC 4862), the
following rc.conf(5) configuration can be used:
ifconfig_bridge0_ipv6="inet6 auto_linklocal"
- if_bridge(4) now removes IPv6 addresses on a member interface to be
added when the parent interface or one of the existing member
interfaces has an IPv6 address. if_bridge(4) merges each link-local
scope zone which the member interfaces form respectively, so it causes
address scope violation. Removal of the IPv6 addresses prevents it.
- if_lagg(4) now removes IPv6 addresses on a member interfaces
unconditionally.
- Set reasonable flags to non-IPv6-capable interfaces. [*]
Submitted by: rpaulo [*]
MFC after: 1 week
inactive when upper layer tries to transmit packet. This
gives better feedback and meaningful errors for applications.
MFC after: 2 weeks
Reviewed by: thompsa
The lagg(4) is often used to bond high speed links, so basic per-packet +=
on statistics cause cache misses and statistics loss.
Perfect solution would be to convert ifnet(9) to counters(9), but this
requires much more work, and unfortunately ABI change, so temporarily
patch lagg(4) manually.
We store counters in the softc, and once per second push their values
to legacy ifnet counters.
Sponsored by: Nginx, Inc.
now use function calls:
if_clone_simple()
if_clone_advanced()
to initialize a cloner, instead of macros that initialize if_clone
structure.
Discussed with: brooks, bz, 1 year ago
Currently, 'ifconfig laggX down' does not remove members from this
lagg(4) interface. So, 'service netif stop laggX' followed by
'service netif start laggX' will choke, because "stop" will leave
interfaces attached to the laggX and ifconfig from the "start" will
refuse to add already-existing interfaces.
The real-world case is when I am bundling together my Ethernet and
WiFi interfaces and using multiple profiles for accessing network in
different places: system being booted up with one profile, but later
this profile being exchanged to another one, followed by 'service
netif restart' will not add WiFi interface back to the lagg: the
"stop" action from 'service netif restart' will shut down my main WiFi
interface, so wlan0 that exists in the lagg0 will be destroyed and
purged from lagg0; the "start" action will try to re-add both
interfaces, but since Ethernet one is already in lagg0, ifconfig will
refuse to add the wlan0 from WiFi interface.
Since adding the interface to the lagg(4) when it is already here
should be an idempotent action: we're really not changing anything,
so this fix doesn't change the semantics of interface addition.
Approved by: thompsa
Reviewed by: emaste
MFC after: 1 week
Lagg(4) restricts the type of packet that may be sent directly to a child
port, to avoid undesired output from accidental misconfiguration.
Previously only ETHERTYPE_PAE was permitted.
BPF writes to a lagg(4) child port are presumably intentional, so just
allow them, while still blocking other packets that should take the
aggregation path.
PR: kern/138620
Approved by: thompsa@
are discarded, this is an issue because lacp drops the lock which may allow
network threads to access freed memory. Expand the lock coverage so the
detach/attach happen atomically.
Submitted by: Andrew Boyer (earlier version)
the traffic flow, this may not be the case giving poor traffic distribution.
Add a sysctl which allows us to fall back to our own flow hash code.
PR: kern/164901
Submitted by: Eugene Grosbein
MFC after: 1 week
if_alloctype was used to store the origional interface type. Take
advantage of this change by removing all existing uses of if_free_type()
in favor of if_free().
MFC after: 1 Month
The SYSCTL_NODE macro defines a list that stores all child-elements of
that node. If there's no SYSCTL_DECL macro anywhere else, there's no
reason why it shouldn't be static.
adding appropriate #ifdefs. For module builds the framework needs
adjustments for at least carp.
Reviewed by: gnn
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Sponsored by: iXsystems
MFC after: 4 days
address on an interface has changed. This lets stacked interfaces such as
vlan(4) detect that their lower interface has changed and adjust things in
order to keep working. Previously this situation broke at least vlan(4) and
lagg(4) configurations.
The EVENTHANDLER_INVOKE call was not placed within if_setlladdr() due to the
risk of a loop.
PR: kern/142927
Submitted by: Nikolay Denev
