the NIC drivers as well as the PHY drivers to take advantage of the
mii_attach() introduced in r213878 to get rid of certain hacks. For
the most part these were:
- Artificially limiting miibus_{read,write}reg methods to certain PHY
addresses; we now let mii_attach() only probe the PHY at the desired
address(es) instead.
- PHY drivers setting MIIF_* flags based on the NIC driver they hang
off from, partly even based on grabbing and using the softc of the
parent; we now pass these flags down from the NIC to the PHY drivers
via mii_attach(). This got us rid of all such hacks except those of
brgphy() in combination with bce(4) and bge(4), which is way beyond
what can be expressed with simple flags.
While at it, I took the opportunity to change the NIC drivers to pass
up the error returned by mii_attach() (previously by mii_phy_probe())
and unify the error message used in this case where and as appropriate
as mii_attach() actually can fail for a number of reasons, not just
because of no PHY(s) being present at the expected address(es).
Reviewed by: jhb, yongari
Previously rl(4) continuously checked whether there are RX events
or TX completions in forever loop. This caused TX starvation under
high RX load as well as consuming too much CPU cycles in the
interrupt handler. If interrupt was shared with other devices which
may be always true due to USB devices in these days, rl(4) also
tried to process the interrupt. This means polling(4) was the only
way to mitigate the these issues.
To address these issues, rl(4) now disables interrupts when it
knows the interrupt is ours and limit the number of iteration of
the loop to 16. The interrupt would be enabled again before exiting
interrupt handler if the driver is still running. Because RX buffer
is 64KB in size, the number of iterations in the loop has nothing
to do with number of RX packets being processed. This change
ensures sending TX frames under high RX load.
RX handler drops a driver lock to pass received frames to upper
stack such that there is a window that user can down the interface.
So rl(4) now checks whether driver is still running before serving
RX or TX completion in the loop.
While I'm here, exit interrupt handler when driver initialized
controller.
With this change, now rl(4) can send frames under high RX load even
though the TX performance is still not good(rl(4) controllers can't
queue more than 4 frames at a time so low TX performance was one of
design issue of rl(4) controllers). It's much better than previous
TX starvation and you should not notice RX performance drop with
this change. Controller still shows poor performance under high
network load but for many cases it's now usable without resorting
to polling(4).
MFC after: 2 weeks
IFF_ALLMULTI/IFF_PROMISC as well as multicast filter configuration.
Rewrite RX filter logic to reduce number of register accesses and
make it handle promiscuous/allmulti toggling without controller
reinitialization.
Previously rl(4) counted on controller reinitialization to reprogram
promiscuous configuration but r211767 resulted in avoiding
controller reinitialization whenever promiscuous mode is toggled.
To address this, keep track of driver's view of interface state and
handle IFF_ALLMULTI/IFF_PROMISC changes without reinitializing
controller. This should fix a regression introduced in r211267.
While I'm here remove unnecessary variable reassignment in ioctl
handler.
PR: kern/151079
MFC after: 1 week
register mapping. I'm not sure whether it comes from the fact that
controllers live behind certain PCI brdge(PLX PCI 6152 33BC) and
the bridge has some issues in handling I/O space register mapping.
Unfortunately it's not possible to narrow down to an exact
controller that shows this issue because RealTek used the same PCI
device/revision id again. In theory, it's possible to check parent
PCI bridge device and change rl(4) to use memory space register
mapping if the parent PCI bridge is PLX PCI 6152. But I didn't try
to do that and we wouldn't get much benefit with added complexity.
Blindly switching to use memory space register mapping for rl(4)
may make most old controllers not to work. At least, I don't want
to take potential risk from such change. So use I/O space register
mapping by default but give users chance to override it via a
tunable. The tunable to use memory space register mapping would be
given by adding the following line to /boot/loader.conf file.
dev.rl.%d.prefer_iomap="0"
This change makes P811B quad-port work with this tunable.
Tested by: Nikola Kalpazanov ( n.kalpazanov <> gmail dot com )
MFC after: 1 week
queue length. The default value for this parameter is 50, which is
quite low for many of today's uses and the only way to modify this
parameter right now is to edit if_var.h file. Also add read-only
sysctl with the same name, so that it's possible to retrieve the
current value.
MFC after: 1 month
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
event from mii(4) may not be delivered if valid link was already
established. To address the issue, check current link state after
driving MII_TICK. This should fix a regression introduced in
r184245.
PR: kern/129647
same LOM hardware with goofed-up EEPROM programming also needed reading the
Ethernet address from the chips registers as the EEPROM did not have a
sensible address programmed.
Patch developed by: pyun@
Funky hardware on loan: www.id-it.nl
MFC after: 2 weeks
cable tuning. This has helped in some installations for hardware
deployed by a former employer. Made optional because the lists aren't
full of complaints about these cards... even when they were wildly
popular.
Reviewed by: attilio@, jhb@, trhodes@ (all an older version of the patch)
established a valid link or not.
In rl_start_locked, don't try to send packets unless we have valid
link. While I'm here add a check that verifies whether driver can
accept Tx requests by inspecting IFF_DRV_OACTIVE/IFF_DRV_RUNNING
flag.
- The hardware does not support DAC so limit DMA address space to
4GB.
- Removed BUS_DMA_ALLOC_NOW flag.
- Created separated Tx buffer and Rx buffer DMA tags. Previously
it used to single DMA tag and it was not possible to specify
different DMA restrictions.
- Apply 4 bytes alignment limitation of Tx buffer.
- Apply 8 bytes alignment limitation of Rx buffer.
- Tx side bus_dmamap_load_mbuf_sg(9) support.
- Preallocate Tx DMA maps as creating DMA maps take very long time
on architectures that require real DMA maps.
- Adjust guard buffer size to 1522 + 8 as it should include VLAN
and additional reserved bytes in Rx buffer.
- Plug memory leak in device detach. Previously wrong buffer
address was used to free allocated memory.
- Added rl_list_rx_init() to clear Rx buffer and cleared the
buffer.
- Don't destroy DMA maps in rl_txeof() as the DMA map should be
reused. There is no reason to destroy/recreate the DMA maps in
this driver.
- Removed rl_dma_map_rxbuf()/rl_dma_map_txbuf() callbacks.
- The hardware does not support descriptor based DMA on Tx side
and the Tx buffer address should be aligned on 4 bytes boundary
as well as manual padding for short frames. Because of this
hardware limitation rl(4) always used to invoke m_defrag(9) to
get a 4 bytes aligned single buffer. However m_defrag(9) takes
a lot of CPU cycles on slow machines and not all packets need
the help of m_defrag(9). Armed with the information, don't
invoke m_defrag(9) if the following conditions are true.
1. Buffer is not fragmented.
2. Buffer is aligned on 4 bytes boundary.
3. Manual padding is not necessary.
4. Or padding is necessary but upper stack passed a writable
buffer and the space needed for padding is satisfied.
This change combined with preallocated DMA maps greatly
increased Tx performance of driver on sparc64.
- Moved bus_dmamap_sync(9) in rl_start_locked() to rl_encap() and
corrected memory synchronization operation specifier of
bus_dmamap_sync(9).
- Removed bus_dmamap_unload(9) in rl_stop(). There is no need to
reload/unload Rx buffer as rl(4) always have to copy from the
buffer. It just needs proper bus_dmamap_sync(9) calls before
copying the received frame.
With this change rl(4) should work on systems with more than 4GB
memory.
PR: kern/128143
received frame under certain conditions. wpaul said the length
0xfff0 is special meaning that indicates hardware is in the
process of copying a packet into host memory. But it seems
there are other cases that hardware is busy or stuck in bad
situation even if the received frame length is not 0xfff0.
To work-around this condition, add a check that verifys that
recevied frame length is in valid range. If received length is out
of range reinitialize hardware to recover from stuck condition.
Reported by: Mike Tancsa ( mike AT sentex DOT net )
Tested by: Mike Tancsa
Obtained from: OpenBSD
MFC after: 1 week
Ever since switching to adaptive polling re(4) occasionally spews
watchdog timeouts on systems with MSI capability. This change is
minimal one for supporting MSI and re(4) also needs MSIX support
for RTL8111C in future. Because softc structure of re(4) is shared
with rl(4), rl(4) was touched to use the modified softc.
Reported by: cnst
Tested by: cnst
Approved by: re (kensmith)
sparc64 GENERIC and the sound device drivers known working on sparc64
to use bus_get_dma_tag() to obtain the parent DMA tag so we can get rid
of the sparc64_root_dma_tag kludge eventually. Except for ath(4), sk(4),
stge(4) and ti(4) these changes are runtime tested (unless I booted up
the wrong kernels again...).
Because accessing ID registers in rtl81x9 needs 32bit register access
and RL_IDR4/RL_IDR5 registers are reservered registers bzero() is
needed before copying ethernet address.
This fixes unaligned memory accesses panic in sparc64.
PR: kern/106801
MFC after: 3 days
if_ioctl, if_watchdog, etc, or in functions that are used by
these methods only. In all other cases use device_printf().
This also fixes several panics, when if_printf() is called before
softc->ifp was initialized.
Submitted by: Alex Lyashkov <umka sevcity.net>
rather than in ifindex_table[]; all (except one) accesses are
through ifp anyway. IF_LLADDR() works faster, and all (except
one) ifaddr_byindex() users were converted to use ifp->if_addr.
- Stop storing a (pointer to) Ethernet address in "struct arpcom",
and drop the IFP2ENADDR() macro; all users have been converted
to use IF_LLADDR() instead.
opt_device_polling.h
- Include opt_device_polling.h into appropriate files.
- Embrace with HAVE_KERNEL_OPTION_HEADERS the include in the files that
can be compiled as loadable modules.
Reviewed by: bde
o Axe poll in trap.
o Axe IFF_POLLING flag from if_flags.
o Rework revision 1.21 (Giant removal), in such a way that
poll_mtx is not dropped during call to polling handler.
This fixes problem with idle polling.
o Make registration and deregistration from polling in a
functional way, insted of next tick/interrupt.
o Obsolete kern.polling.enable. Polling is turned on/off
with ifconfig.
Detailed kern_poll.c changes:
- Remove polling handler flags, introduced in 1.21. The are not
needed now.
- Forget and do not check if_flags, if_capenable and if_drv_flags.
- Call all registered polling handlers unconditionally.
- Do not drop poll_mtx, when entering polling handlers.
- In ether_poll() NET_LOCK_GIANT prior to locking poll_mtx.
- In netisr_poll() axe the block, where polling code asks drivers
to unregister.
- In netisr_poll() and ether_poll() do polling always, if any
handlers are present.
- In ether_poll_[de]register() remove a lot of error hiding code. Assert
that arguments are correct, instead.
- In ether_poll_[de]register() use standard return values in case of
error or success.
- Introduce poll_switch() that is a sysctl handler for kern.polling.enable.
poll_switch() goes through interface list and enabled/disables polling.
A message that kern.polling.enable is deprecated is printed.
Detailed driver changes:
- On attach driver announces IFCAP_POLLING in if_capabilities, but
not in if_capenable.
- On detach driver calls ether_poll_deregister() if polling is enabled.
- In polling handler driver obtains its lock and checks IFF_DRV_RUNNING
flag. If there is no, then unlocks and returns.
- In ioctl handler driver checks for IFCAP_POLLING flag requested to
be set or cleared. Driver first calls ether_poll_[de]register(), then
obtains driver lock and [dis/en]ables interrupts.
- In interrupt handler driver checks IFCAP_POLLING flag in if_capenable.
If present, then returns.This is important to protect from spurious
interrupts.
Reviewed by: ru, sam, jhb
the softc.
- Use callout_init_mtx() and rather than timeout/untimeout in both rl(4)
and re(4).
- Fix locking for ifmedia by locking the driver in the ifmedia handlers
rather than in the miibus functions. (re(4) didn't lock the mii stuff
at all!)
- Fix some locking in re_ioctl().
Note: the two drivers share the same softc declared in if_rlreg.h, so they
had to be change simultaneously.
MFC after: 1 week
Tested by: several on rl(4), none on re(4)
IFF_DRV_RUNNING, as well as the move from ifnet.if_flags to
ifnet.if_drv_flags. Device drivers are now responsible for
synchronizing access to these flags, as they are in if_drv_flags. This
helps prevent races between the network stack and device driver in
maintaining the interface flags field.
Many __FreeBSD__ and __FreeBSD_version checks maintained and continued;
some less so.
Reviewed by: pjd, bz
MFC after: 7 days
over iteration of their multicast address lists when synchronizing the
hardware address filter with the network stack-maintained list.
Problem reported by: Ed Maste (emaste at phaedrus dot sandvine dot ca>
MFC after: 1 week
struct ifnet or the layer 2 common structure it was embedded in have
been replaced with a struct ifnet pointer to be filled by a call to the
new function, if_alloc(). The layer 2 common structure is also allocated
via if_alloc() based on the interface type. It is hung off the new
struct ifnet member, if_l2com.
This change removes the size of these structures from the kernel ABI and
will allow us to better manage them as interfaces come and go.
Other changes of note:
- Struct arpcom is no longer referenced in normal interface code.
Instead the Ethernet address is accessed via the IFP2ENADDR() macro.
To enforce this ac_enaddr has been renamed to _ac_enaddr.
- The second argument to ether_ifattach is now always the mac address
from driver private storage rather than sometimes being ac_enaddr.
Reviewed by: sobomax, sam
can retransmit on TX underrun and set TOK in addition to TUND. Also add a
check to prevent overflow of the addressable threshold.
This fixes some reports of rl(4) slowness, believed to be related to ALTQ
before.
PR: kern/61448
Submitted by: Tim Draegen-Gilman <timNOeudaemonSPAMnet> (with changes)
MFC after: 1 week
