queues (which we call slices). The NIC will steer traffic into up to
hw.mxge.max_slices different receive rings based on a configurable
hash type (hw.mxge.rss_hash_type).
Currently the driver defaults to using a single slice, so the default
behavior is unchanged. Also, transmit from non-zero slices is
disabled currently.
- Fix a bug introduced in 1.4.20 where speculative read by the processor in the
write-only doorbell region would cause a target-abort (as opposed to simply
returning random data). This could manifest itself as NMI or machine freeze
depending on how the BIOS/OS/chipset configuration handles target-abort.
- Add support for new revisions of -R cards (with AEL1002/AEL1010 xaui->xfi)
- Increase an internal timing (dispatch engine): fix possible spurious reset
(seen on very few cards).
on an down mxge interface
- Fix a bug where mxge reported the link state as
active when it wasn't (after ifconfig down).
- Prevent spurious watchdog resets when link partner is not consuming
- Add support for CX4 and popular XFP media detection
- Update the firmware and associated header files to 1.4.25
Approved by: re (kensmith)
- Add custom .c wrappers for the firmware, rather than the standard
firmware(9) generated firmware objects to work around toolchain
problems on ia64 involving linking objects produced by
ld -b -binary into the kernel.
- Move from using Myricom's ".dat" firmware blobs to using Myricom's
zlib compressed ".h" firmware header files. This is done to
facilitate the custom wrappers, and saves a fair amount of wired
memory in the case where the firmware is built in, or preloaded.
- Fix two compile issues in mxge which only appear on non-i386/amd64.
Reviewed by: mlaier, mav (earlier version with just zlib support)
Glanced at by: sam
Approved by: re (kensmith)
- Allow LRO to be enabled / disabled at runtime
- Fix a double-free at module unload time.
- Only update timestamp in lro merge when it is present in the frame
Sponsored by: Myricom
clusters. This helps quite a bit on my low end machines (improves
performance by about 300Kpps when being blasted by a hardware
packet generator).
- Include one extended f/w counter forgotten in earlier commit
Sponsored by: Myricom Inc.
- Remove code to use the special wc_fifo. It has been disabled by default
in our other drivers as it actually slows down transmit by a small amount
- Dynamically determine the amount of space required for the rx_done
ring rather than hardcoding it.
- Compute the number of tx descriptors we are willing to transmit per
frame as the minimum of 128 or 1/4 the tx ring size.
- Fix a typo in the tx dma tag setup which could lead to unnecessary
defragging of TSO packets (and potentially even dropping TSO packets
due to EFBIG being returned).
- Add a counter to keep track of how many times we've needed to
defragment a frame. It should always be zero.
- Export new extended f/w counters via sysctl
Sponsored by: Myricom, Inc.
- Update to the latest (1.4.18) f/w. This f/w introduces a new
receive mode which allows us to use FreeBSD's physically discontinuous
MJUM9BYTES clusters.
- Switch the driver from chaining MJUMPAGESIZE clusters to using
MJUM9BYTES clusters to avoid mbuf chaining overheads. Due to this
change, people running obsolete f/w images will be limited to an MTU of
PAGE_SIZE - 16.
- Add (disabled by default) support for Large Receive Offload.
Sponsored by: Myricom, Inc.
- Update to latest (1.4.17) firmware.
- Use the new MXGEFW_CMD_UNALIGNED_TEST (added in firmare 1.4.16) to
have the firmware tell us if the PCIe chipset supports aligned PCIe
completions.
- Hard to maintain, and frequently out of date whitelist of PCIe
chipsets known to produce aligned completions removed, as it has been
replaced in its role of selecting the correct firmware to run by the
use of MXGEFW_CMD_UNALIGNED_TEST.
- Break the dma test out of mxge_reset() and into its own function
(mxge_dma_test()) so it can be used by both the normal DMA test, and
to run the unaligned test.
- Improved support for enabling ECRCs
Sponsored by: Myricom Inc.
were never freed, but the big ring was freed twice.
-Don't supply rx hw csums for frames which are padded beyond the
length specified in the ip header. If the padding is non-zero,
the hw csum will be incorrect for such frames.
Sponsored by: Myricom
been defragged and had their headers in the same cluster as their
payload would be fed to the NIC in header-sized chunks, and would
likely exceed the number of available transmit descriptors.
- If a TSO frame exceeds the number of available transmit descriptors,
don't leak busdmma resources when freeing it.
Sponsored by: Myricom Inc.
obtaining and releasing shared and exclusive locks. The algorithms for
manipulating the lock cookie are very similar to that rwlocks. This patch
also adds support for exclusive locks using the same algorithm as mutexes.
A new sx_init_flags() function has been added so that optional flags can be
specified to alter a given locks behavior. The flags include SX_DUPOK,
SX_NOWITNESS, SX_NOPROFILE, and SX_QUITE which are all identical in nature
to the similar flags for mutexes.
Adaptive spinning on select locks may be enabled by enabling the
ADAPTIVE_SX kernel option. Only locks initialized with the SX_ADAPTIVESPIN
flag via sx_init_flags() will adaptively spin.
The common cases for sx_slock(), sx_sunlock(), sx_xlock(), and sx_xunlock()
are now performed inline in non-debug kernels. As a result, <sys/sx.h> now
requires <sys/lock.h> to be included prior to <sys/sx.h>.
The new kernel option SX_NOINLINE can be used to disable the aforementioned
inlining in non-debug kernels.
The size of struct sx has changed, so the kernel ABI is probably greatly
disturbed.
MFC after: 1 month
Submitted by: attilio
Tested by: kris, pjd
When submitting rx buffers and not using WC fifo, always replace the
invalid DMA address with the real one, otherwise allocation failures
could lead to the invalid DMA address being given to the NIC, and
that would cause the receive side to lockup.
treated as multicast frames and filtered, but when only when "adopting"
running firmware. By "adopting", I mean using pre-existing firmware
loaded from eeprom at PCI reset, rather than firmware loaded by the
driver.
a version that i posted earlier on the -current mailing list,
and subsequent feedback received.
The core of the change is just in sys/firmware.h and kern/subr_firmware.c,
while other files are just adaptation of the clients to the ABI change
(const-ification of some parameters and hiding of internal info,
so this is fully compatible at the binary level).
In detail:
- reduce the amount of information exported to clients in struct firmware,
and constify the pointer;
- internally, document and simplify the implementation of the various
functions, and make sure error conditions are dealt with properly.
The diffs are large, but the code is really straightforward now (i hope).
Note also that there is a subtle issue with the implementation of
firmware_register(): currently, as in the previous version, we just
store a reference to the 'imagename' argument, but we should rather
copy it because there is no guarantee that this is a static string.
I realised this while testing this code, but i prefer to fix it in
a later commit -- there is no regression with respect to the past.
Note, too, that the version in RELENG_6 has various bugs including
missing locks around the module release calls, mishandling of modules
loaded by /boot/loader, and so on, so an MFC is absolutely necessary
there. I was just postponing it until this cleanup to avoid doing
things twice.
MFC after: 1 week
for pci_cfg_restore() to be exported. It was tested using a
hackily accessed pci_cfg_restore().
- Add ifmedia_removeall() to mxge_detach() in order to stop leaking
an ifaddr
- Fix a small acounting bug introduced by the locking code shuffle
which could cause spurious watchdog resets now that we have a
watchdog.
Sponsored by: Myricom
locking in preparation for adding a watchdog handler (callouts must
not use sleepable locks). This required shuffling memory and
interrupt allocation to the attach routine rather than if_ioctl so as
to avoid potential sleeps while bringing up the interface.
- initialize ifq_drv_maxlen correctly
- mark the interface as jumbo capable
- keep stats on the number of times the hw transmit queue filled and
was restarted.
- Fix bug preventing adoption of running firmware
- Set PCIe max read request size to 4KB
- Read PCIe link width from config space
- Assume aligned completions from the southbridge ports
of intel E5000 chips
- Use aligned firmware when link width is x4 or less
- Add hw.mxge.force_firmware tunable to allow user to force
selection of aligned (or unaligned) firmware
long being DMA'ed 2 (or 1) bytes past the end of the mbuf and corrupting
random kernel memory. I had forgotten about the 2 bytes of implict
padding the firmware assumes.
Sponsored by: Myricom Inc.
- Added support for multicast filtering, now that the firmware
supports it. Note that this is not yet tested, as multicast
seems to panic -current (even w/o mxge loaded)
- Added workaround to cope with different irq data struct size on
pre-multicast firmware which can found running on nics.
- Added Intel E5000 PCIe chipsets to list providing aligned completions.
- Replaced various magic constants with #defines, now that they are
defined in the firmware headers.
in the transmit busdma tag, so I moved the segment list off the
stack.
- Fixed transmit routine to ensure it doesn't read past the end
of an mbuf when parsing headers.
- Corrected handling of odd length segments. Setting MXGEFW_FLAGS_ALIGN_ODD
is required only when offloading the checksum of that frame.
Sponsored by: Myricom Inc.
- Copy ethernet firmware down in small chunks so as to avoid bugs
in early versions of the bootstrap firmware.
- Attempt to "adopt" the running firmware if we cannot load a suitable
firmware image via firmware(9).
- Separate firmware validation into its own routine, and check the
major/minor driver/firmware ABI version.
!IFQ_DRV_IS_EMPTY(). Taking this into account, I re-structured the
transmit routine so as to avoid adding another if/then in the
critical path.
Thanks to brueffer for showing my how to test with altq/pf.
- Update the firmware to the latest released firmware
(1.4.3), which corresponds to the firmware in the
latest shipping drivers from Myricom. This firmware
fixes several bugs in the firmware's PCI-e implementation,
and it also changes the driver/firmware interface:
o TSO was added, and changed the format of the transmit
descriptors.
o The firmware no longer counts transmits descriptors,
but frames. So the driver needs to keep a count
of the number of frames sent.
o The weird interrupt strategy changed to a normal receive
return ring. This ring is much bigger, and we may be
able to support DEVICE_POLLING.
o Myricom's header files changed the name of firmware
related #define's and enums (s/_MCP_/FW_).
- Stopped spamming the console with lots of printfs unless
mxge_verbose (or bootverbose) is set.
- Made additional information available via sysctl, including
the results of a PCI-e DMA benchmark run at device reset.
- Decreased the excessively long timeouts when sending commands
from 2 seconds to 20ms.
Sponsored by: Myricom Inc.
s/myri10ge/mxge/g replacement in the myri10ge files. A few contuation
lines were joined because of the regained columns.
- Hook the mxge driver back to the build.
More info regarding these nics can be found at http://www.myri.com.
Please note that the files
sys/dev/myri10ge/{mcp_gen_header.h,myri10ge_mcp.h} are internally
shared between all our drivers (solaris, macosx, windows, linux, etc).
I'd like to keep these files unchanged, so I can just import newer
versions of them when the firmware API/ABI changes. This means I'm
stuck with some of the crazy-long #define names, and possibly
non-style(9) characteristics of these files.
Many thanks to mlaier for doing firmware(9) just as I
needed it, and to scottl for his helpful review.
Reviewed by: scottl, glebius
Sponsored by: Myricom Inc.
