Realtek RTL8188CU/RTL8192CU USB IEEE 802.11b/g/n wireless cards.
This driver requires microcode which is available in FreeBSD ports:
net/urtwn-firmware-kmod.
Hiren ported the urtwn(4) man page from OpenBSD and Glen just commited a port
for the firmware.
TODO:
- 802.11n support
- Stability fixes - the driver can sustain lots of traffic but has trouble
coping with simultaneous iperf sessions.
- fix debugging
MFC after: 2 months
Tested by: kevlo, hiren, gjb
To make <stdatomic.h> work on MIPS (and ARM) using GCC, we need to
provide implementations of the __sync_*() functions. I already added
these functions for 4 and 8 byte types to libcompiler-rt some time ago,
based on top of <machine/atomic.h>.
Unfortunately, <machine/atomic.h> only provides a subset of the features
needed to implement <stdatomic.h>. This means that in some cases we had
to do compare-and-exchange calls in loops, where a simple ll/sc would
suffice.
Also implement these functions for 1 and 2 byte types. MIPS only
provides ll/sc instructions for 4 and 8 byte types, but this is of
course no limitation. We can simply load 4 bytes and use some bitmask
tricks to modify only the bytes affected.
Discussed on: mips, arch
Tested with: QEMU
for the WB195 combo NIC - an AR9285 w/ an AR3011 USB bluetooth NIC.
The AR3011 is wired up using a 3-wire coexistence scheme to the AR9285.
The code in if_ath_btcoex.c sets up the initial hardware mapping
and coexistence configuration. There's nothing special about it -
it's static; it doesn't try to configure bluetooth / MAC traffic priorities
or try to figure out what's actually going on. It's enough to stop basic
bluetooth traffic from causing traffic stalls and diassociation from
the wireless network.
To use this code, you must have the above NIC. No, it won't work
for the AR9287+AR3012, nor the AR9485, AR9462 or AR955x combo cards.
Then you set a kernel hint before boot or before kldload, where 'X'
is the unit number of your AR9285 NIC:
# kenv hint.ath.X.btcoex_profile=wb195
This will then appear in your boot messages:
[100482] athX: Enabling WB195 BTCOEX
This code is going to evolve pretty quickly (well, depending upon my
spare time) so don't assume the btcoex API is going to stay stable.
In order to use the bluetooth side, you must also load in firmware using
ath3kfw and the binary firmware file (ath3k-1.fw in my case.)
Tested:
* AR9280, no interference
* WB195 - AR9285 + AR3011 combo; STA mode; basic bluetooth inquiries
were enough to cause traffic stalls and disassociations. This has
stopped with the btcoex profile code.
TODO:
* Importantly - the AR9285 needs ASPM disabled if bluetooth coexistence
is enabled. No, I don't know why. It's likely some kind of bug to do
with the AR3011 sending bluetooth coexistence signals whilst the device
is asleep. Since we don't actually sleep the MAC just yet, it shouldn't
be a problem. That said, to be totally correct:
+ ASPM should be disabled - upon attach and wakeup
+ The PCIe powersave HAL code should never be called
Look at what the ath9k driver does for inspiration.
* Add WB197 (AR9287+AR3012) support
* Add support for the AR9485, which is another combo like the AR9285
* The later NICs have a different signaling mechanism between the MAC
and the bluetooth device; I haven't even begun to experiment with
making that HAL code work. But it should be a lot more automatic.
* The hardware can do much more interesting traffic weighting with
bluetooth and wifi traffic. None of this is currently used.
Ideally someone would code up something to watch the bluetooth traffic
GPIO (via an interrupt) and then watch it go high/low; then figure out
what the bluetooth traffic is and adjust things appropriately.
* If I get the time I may add in some code to at least track this stuff
and expose statistics. But it's up to someone else to experiment with
the bluetooth coexistence support and add the interesting stuff (like
"real" detection of bulk, audio, etc bluetooth traffic patterns and
change wifi parameters appropriately - eg, maximum aggregate length,
transmit power, using quiet time to control TX duty cycle, etc.)
1. Common headers for fdt.h and ofw_machdep.h under x86/include
with indirections under i386/include and amd64/include.
2. New modinfo for loader provided FDT blob.
3. Common x86_init_fdt() called from hammer_time() on amd64 and
init386() on i386.
4. Split-off FDT specific low-level console functions from FDT
bus methods for the uart(4) driver. The low-level console
logic has been moved to uart_cpu_fdt.c and is used for arm,
mips & powerpc only. The FDT bus methods are shared across
all architectures.
5. Add dev/fdt/fdt_x86.c to hold the fdt_fixup_table[] and the
fdt_pic_table[] arrays. Both are empty right now.
FDT addresses are I/O ports on x86. Since the core FDT code does
not handle different address spaces, adding support for both I/O
ports and memory addresses requires some thought and discussion.
It may be better to use a compile-time option that controls this.
Obtained from: Juniper Networks, Inc.
QLogic 8300 Series Adapters
Submitted by: David C Somayajulu (davidcs@freebsd.org) QLogic Corporation
Approved by: George Neville-Neil (gnn@freebsd.org)
PV entries are now roughly half the size.
Instead of using a shared UMA zone for 28 byte pv entries
(two 8-byte tailq nodes, a 4 byte pointer, a 4 byte address and 4 byte
flags), we allocate a page at a time per process.
This provides 252 pv entries per process (actually, per pmap address space)
and eliminates one of the 8-byte tailq entries since we now can track
per-process pv entries implicitly.
The pointer to the pmap can be eliminated by doing address arithmetic to
find the metadata on the page headers to find a single pointer shared by
all 252 entries. There is an 8-int bitmap for the freelist of those 252
entries.
When in serious low memory condition, allocation of another pv_chunk is
possible by freeing some pages in pmap_pv_reclaim().
Added pv_entry/pv_chunk related statistics to pmap.
pv_entry/pv_chunk statistics can be accessed via sysctl vm.pmap.
Ported PTE freelist of KVA allocation and maintenance from i386.
Using an idea from Stephan Uphoff, use the empty pte's that correspond
to the unused kva in the pv memory block to thread a freelist through.
This allows us to free pages that used to be used for pv entry chunks
since we can now track holes in the kva memory block.
As both ARM pmap.c and pmap-v6.c use the same header and pv_entry, pmap and
md_page structures are different, it was needed to separate code designed
for ARMv6/7 from the one for other ARMs.
Submitted by: Zbigniew Bodek <zbb@semihalf.com>
Reviewed by: alc
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation, Semihalf
with any structure containing a uint64_t index. The tree code
auto-generates type safe wrappers.
- Eliminate the buf splay and replace it with pctrie. This is not only
significantly faster with large files but also allows for the possibility
of shared locking.
Reviewed by: alc, attilio
Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon Storage Division
locks. To support this, VNODE locks are created with the LK_IS_VNODE
flag. This flag is propagated down using the LO_IS_VNODE flag.
Note that WITNESS still records the LOR. Only the printing and the
optional entering into the kernel debugger is bypassed with the
WITNESS_NO_VNODE option.
order to match the MAXCPU concept. The change should also be useful
for consolidation and consistency.
Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon storage division
Obtained from: jeff
Reviewed by: alc
Add a simplebus attachment for cfi(4)'s FDT support and move
cfi_bus_fdt.c to sys/conf/files so non-ppc architectures are supported.
Sponsored by: DARPA, AFRL
The NTB allows you to connect two systems with this device using a PCI-e
link. The driver is made of two modules:
- ntb_hw which is a basic hardware abstraction layer for the device.
- if_ntb which implements the ntb network device and the communication
protocol.
The driver is limited at the moment to CPU memcpy instead of using DMA, and
only Back-to-Back mode is supported. Also the network device isn't full
featured yet. These changes will be coming soon. The DMA change will also
bring in the ioat driver from the project branch it is on now.
This is an initial port of the GPL/BSD Linux driver contributed by Jon Mason
from Intel. Any bugs are my contributions.
Sponsored by: Intel
Reviewed by: jimharris, joel (man page only)
Approved by: jimharris (mentor)
This allows users who boot without loader to adjust their environments
around slightly buggy or slow hardware.
PR: kern/161809
Submitted by: rozhuk.im@gmail.com
MFC after: 2 weeks
This is intended to be used as a stop-gap for switch devices
which expose multiple ethernet PHYs but we don't have a driver
for - here, etherswitchcfg and the general switch configuration
API can be used to interface to said PHYs.
Submitted by: Luiz Otavio O Souza <loos.br@gmail.com>
it will work with either the old or new server.
The FHA code keeps a cache of currently active file handles for
NFSv2 and v3 requests, so that read and write requests for the same
file are directed to the same group of threads (reads) or thread
(writes). It does not currently work for NFSv4 requests. They are
more complex, and will take more work to support.
This improves read-ahead performance, especially with ZFS, if the
FHA tuning parameters are configured appropriately. Without the
FHA code, concurrent reads that are part of a sequential read from
a file will be directed to separate NFS threads. This has the
effect of confusing the ZFS zfetch (prefetch) code and makes
sequential reads significantly slower with clients like Linux that
do a lot of prefetching.
The FHA code has also been updated to direct write requests to nearby
file offsets to the same thread in the same way it batches reads,
and the FHA code will now also send writes to multiple threads when
needed.
This improves sequential write performance in ZFS, because writes
to a file are now more ordered. Since NFS writes (generally
less than 64K) are smaller than the typical ZFS record size
(usually 128K), out of order NFS writes to the same block can
trigger a read in ZFS. Sending them down the same thread increases
the odds of their being in order.
In order for multiple write threads per file in the FHA code to be
useful, writes in the NFS server have been changed to use a LK_SHARED
vnode lock, and upgrade that to LK_EXCLUSIVE if the filesystem
doesn't allow multiple writers to a file at once. ZFS is currently
the only filesystem that allows multiple writers to a file, because
it has internal file range locking. This change does not affect the
NFSv4 code.
This improves random write performance to a single file in ZFS, since
we can now have multiple writers inside ZFS at one time.
I have changed the default tuning parameters to a 22 bit (4MB)
window size (from 256K) and unlimited commands per thread as a
result of my benchmarking with ZFS.
The FHA code has been updated to allow configuring the tuning
parameters from loader tunable variables in addition to sysctl
variables. The read offset window calculation has been slightly
modified as well. Instead of having separate bins, each file
handle has a rolling window of bin_shift size. This minimizes
glitches in throughput when shifting from one bin to another.
sys/conf/files:
Add nfs_fha_new.c and nfs_fha_old.c. Compile nfs_fha.c
when either the old or the new NFS server is built.
sys/fs/nfs/nfsport.h,
sys/fs/nfs/nfs_commonport.c:
Bring in changes from Rick Macklem to newnfs_realign that
allow it to operate in blocking (M_WAITOK) or non-blocking
(M_NOWAIT) mode.
sys/fs/nfs/nfs_commonsubs.c,
sys/fs/nfs/nfs_var.h:
Bring in a change from Rick Macklem to allow telling
nfsm_dissect() whether or not to wait for mallocs.
sys/fs/nfs/nfsm_subs.h:
Bring in changes from Rick Macklem to create a new
nfsm_dissect_nonblock() inline function and
NFSM_DISSECT_NONBLOCK() macro.
sys/fs/nfs/nfs_commonkrpc.c,
sys/fs/nfsclient/nfs_clkrpc.c:
Add the malloc wait flag to a newnfs_realign() call.
sys/fs/nfsserver/nfs_nfsdkrpc.c:
Setup the new NFS server's RPC thread pool so that it will
call the FHA code.
Add the malloc flag argument to newnfs_realign().
Unstaticize newnfs_nfsv3_procid[] so that we can use it in
the FHA code.
sys/fs/nfsserver/nfs_nfsdsocket.c:
In nfsrvd_dorpc(), add NFSPROC_WRITE to the list of RPC types
that use the LK_SHARED lock type.
sys/fs/nfsserver/nfs_nfsdport.c:
In nfsd_fhtovp(), if we're starting a write, check to see
whether the underlying filesystem supports shared writes.
If not, upgrade the lock type from LK_SHARED to LK_EXCLUSIVE.
sys/nfsserver/nfs_fha.c:
Remove all code that is specific to the NFS server
implementation. Anything that is server-specific is now
accessed through a callback supplied by that server's FHA
shim in the new softc.
There are now separate sysctls and tunables for the FHA
implementations for the old and new NFS servers. The new
NFS server has its tunables under vfs.nfsd.fha, the old
NFS server's tunables are under vfs.nfsrv.fha as before.
In fha_extract_info(), use callouts for all server-specific
code. Getting file handles and offsets is now done in the
individual server's shim module.
In fha_hash_entry_choose_thread(), change the way we decide
whether two reads are in proximity to each other.
Previously, the calculation was a simple shift operation to
see whether the offsets were in the same power of 2 bucket.
The issue was that there would be a bucket (and therefore
thread) transition, even if the reads were in close
proximity. When there is a thread transition, reads wind
up going somewhat out of order, and ZFS gets confused.
The new calculation simply tries to see whether the offsets
are within 1 << bin_shift of each other. If they are, the
reads will be sent to the same thread.
The effect of this change is that for sequential reads, if
the client doesn't exceed the max_reqs_per_nfsd parameter
and the bin_shift is set to a reasonable value (22, or
4MB works well in my tests), the reads in any sequential
stream will largely be confined to a single thread.
Change fha_assign() so that it takes a softc argument. It
is now called from the individual server's shim code, which
will pass in the softc.
Change fhe_stats_sysctl() so that it takes a softc
parameter. It is now called from the individual server's
shim code. Add the current offset to the list of things
printed out about each active thread.
Change the num_reads and num_writes counters in the
fha_hash_entry structure to 32-bit values, and rename them
num_rw and num_exclusive, respectively, to reflect their
changed usage.
Add an enable sysctl and tunable that allows the user to
disable the FHA code (when vfs.XXX.fha.enable = 0). This
is useful for before/after performance comparisons.
nfs_fha.h:
Move most structure definitions out of nfs_fha.c and into
the header file, so that the individual server shims can
see them.
Change the default bin_shift to 22 (4MB) instead of 18
(256K). Allow unlimited commands per thread.
sys/nfsserver/nfs_fha_old.c,
sys/nfsserver/nfs_fha_old.h,
sys/fs/nfsserver/nfs_fha_new.c,
sys/fs/nfsserver/nfs_fha_new.h:
Add shims for the old and new NFS servers to interface with
the FHA code, and callbacks for the
The shims contain all of the code and definitions that are
specific to the NFS servers.
They setup the server-specific callbacks and set the server
name for the sysctl and loader tunable variables.
sys/nfsserver/nfs_srvkrpc.c:
Configure the RPC code to call fhaold_assign() instead of
fha_assign().
sys/modules/nfsd/Makefile:
Add nfs_fha.c and nfs_fha_new.c.
sys/modules/nfsserver/Makefile:
Add nfs_fha_old.c.
Reviewed by: rmacklem
Sponsored by: Spectra Logic
MFC after: 2 weeks
implementation, error on the side of conservatism and only create labels
for GEOMs of classes DISK and MULTIPATH.
Discussed with: trasz
Approved by: silence from freebsd-geom@
and kern.cam.ctl.disable tunable; those were introduced as a workaround
to make it possible to boot GENERIC on low memory machines.
With ctl(4) being built as a module and automatically loaded by ctladm(8),
this makes CTL work out of the box.
Reviewed by: ken
Sponsored by: FreeBSD Foundation
somewhere around svn r39402 to r39234.
I don't know of anyone who really wants to test these changes, but they
only remove the deprecated code in question. This shreds the driver down a
bit and *removes* options from the kernel configs.
These don't appear to be referenced in the man page, so no need to check it
there.
PR: kern/44587
Obtained from: Yahoo! Inc.
MFC after: 2 weeks
Introduce counter(9) API, that implements fast and raceless counters,
provided (but not limited to) for gathering of statistical data.
See http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-arch/2013-April/014204.html
for more details.
In collaboration with: kib
Reviewed by: luigi
Tested by: ae, ray
Sponsored by: Nginx, Inc.
option left but actually consumed by ada(4), so move it to opt_ada.h
and get rid of opt_ata.h.
- Fix stand-alone build of atacore(4) by adding opt_cam.h.
- Use __FBSDID.
- Use DEVMETHOD_END.
- Use NULL instead of 0 for pointers.
- Move ata_timeout() to ata-all.c so we don't need to expose both this
function and ata_cam_end_transaction() but only the former.
- Move ata_cmd2str() from ata-queue.c to ata-all.c so we can get rid of
the former.
- Add some missing prototypes.
MFC after: 3 days
most kernels before FreeBSD 9.0. Remove such modules and respective kernel
options: atadisk, ataraid, atapicd, atapifd, atapist, atapicam. Remove the
atacontrol utility and some man pages. Remove useless now options ATA_CAM.
No objections: current@, stable@
MFC after: never
Allow boothowto and bootverbose to be set via kernel options, which
is useful on architectures that are unable to rely on a boot loader
to pass configuration variables to the kernel.
Submitted by: rwatson
Replace the per-object resident and cached pages splay tree with a
path-compressed multi-digit radix trie.
Along with this, switch also the x86-specific handling of idle page
tables to using the radix trie.
This change is supposed to do the following:
- Allowing the acquisition of read locking for lookup operations of the
resident/cached pages collections as the per-vm_page_t splay iterators
are now removed.
- Increase the scalability of the operations on the page collections.
The radix trie does rely on the consumers locking to ensure atomicity of
its operations. In order to avoid deadlocks the bisection nodes are
pre-allocated in the UMA zone. This can be done safely because the
algorithm needs at maximum one new node per insert which means the
maximum number of the desired nodes is the number of available physical
frames themselves. However, not all the times a new bisection node is
really needed.
The radix trie implements path-compression because UFS indirect blocks
can lead to several objects with a very sparse trie, increasing the number
of levels to usually scan. It also helps in the nodes pre-fetching by
introducing the single node per-insert property.
This code is not generalized (yet) because of the possible loss of
performance by having much of the sizes in play configurable.
However, efforts to make this code more general and then reusable in
further different consumers might be really done.
The only KPI change is the removal of the function vm_page_splay() which
is now reaped.
The only KBI change, instead, is the removal of the left/right iterators
from struct vm_page, which are now reaped.
Further technical notes broken into mealpieces can be retrieved from the
svn branch:
http://svn.freebsd.org/base/user/attilio/vmcontention/
Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon storage division
In collaboration with: alc, jeff
Tested by: flo, pho, jhb, davide
Tested by: ian (arm)
Tested by: andreast (powerpc)
