o add ic_flags_ext for eventual extention of ic_flags
o define/reserve flag+capabilities bits for superg,
bg scan, and roaming support
o refactor debug msg macros
MFC after: 3 days
- file(1) does not recognize UTF-16 encoded .INF file:
netbc564.inf: MPEG ADTS, layer I, v1, 96 kBits, 32 kHz, Stereo
Use egrep(1) to match two strings, i. e., `Signature' and `Class=Net'.
- Fix linking failure. Generate a temporary Makefile to emluate
official kernel module build process.
- Some minor typo/style fixes.
Reviewed by: obrien
writers that want to extend the file. It was also used to serialize
readers that might want to read the last block of the file (with a
writer extending the file). Now that we support vnode locking for
NFS, the rslock is unnecessary. Writers grab the exclusive vnode
lock before writing and readers grab the shared (or in some cases
the exclusive) lock.
Submitted by: Mohan Srinivasan
which in the future will hold IFF_OACTIVE and IFF_RUNNING, and have
its access synchronized by the device driver rather than the
protocol stack. This will avoid potential races in the management
of flags in if_flags.
Discussed with: various (scottl, jhb, ...)
MFC after: 1 week
set in tulip_attach() and its value is never changed, so all the extra sets
are redundant. I'm guessing that at some point in time de(4) had an
alternate start routine, but that hasn't been true in recent history.
default:
- TULIP_NEED_FASTTIMEOUT - tulip_fasttimeout() wasn't called anywhere
- BIG_PACKET - only worked on i386 anyway
- TULIP_USE_SOFTINTR - doesn't compile and was never updated to handle
new netisr registration
- non-FreeBSD code
in6p_outputopts at the entrance of the functions. this trick was
necessary when we passed an in6 pcb to in6_embedscope(), within which
the in6p_outputopts member was used, but we do not use this kind of
interface any more.
Submitted by: Keiichi SHIMA <keiichi__at__iijlab.net>
Obtained from: KAME
data link type of the hook. It will be used to ease autoconfiguration
of netgraph and also to print warning messages, when incompatoble nodes
are connected together.
At the end of ng_snd_item(), node queue is processed. In certain
netgraph setups deep recursive calls can occur.
For example this happens, when two nodes are connected and can send
items to each other in both directions. If, for some reason, both nodes
have a lot of items in their queues, then the processing thread will
recurse between these two nodes, delivering items left and right, going
deeper in the stack. Other setups can suffer from deep recursion, too.
The following factors can influence risk of deep netgraph call:
- periodical write-access events on node
- combination of slow link and fast one in one graph
- net.inet.ip.fastforwarding
Changes made:
- In ng_acquire_{read,write}() do not dequeue another item. Instead,
call ng_setisr() for this node.
- At the end of ng_snd_item(), do not process queue. Call ng_setisr(),
if there are any dequeueable items on node queue.
- In ng_setisr() narrow worklist mutex holding.
- In ng_setisr() assert queue mutex.
Theoretically, the first two changes should negatively affect performance.
To check this, some profiling was made:
1) In general real tasks, no noticable performance difference was found.
2) The following test was made: two multithreaded nodes and one
single-threaded were connected into a ring. A large queues of packets
were sent around this ring. Time to pass the ring N times was measured.
This is a very vacuous test: no items/mbufs are allocated, no upcalls or
downcalls outside of netgraph. It doesn't represent a real load, it is
a stress test for ng_acquire_{read,write}() and item queueing functions.
Surprisingly, the performance impact was positive! New code is 13% faster
on UP and 17% faster on SMP, in this particular test.
The problem was originally found, described, analyzed and original patch
was written by Roselyn Lee from Vernier Networks. Thanks!
Submitted by: Roselyn Lee <rosel verniernetworks com>
