- netmap pipes, providing bidirectional blocking I/O while moving
100+ Mpps between processes using shared memory channels
(no mistake: over one hundred million. But mind you, i said
*moving* not *processing*);
- kqueue support (BHyVe needs it);
- improved user library. Just the interface name lets you select a NIC,
host port, VALE switch port, netmap pipe, and individual queues.
The upcoming netmap-enabled libpcap will use this feature.
- optional extra buffers associated to netmap ports, for applications
that need to buffer data yet don't want to make copies.
- segmentation offloading for the VALE switch, useful between VMs.
and a number of bug fixes and performance improvements.
My colleagues Giuseppe Lettieri and Vincenzo Maffione did a substantial
amount of work on these features so we owe them a big thanks.
There are some external repositories that can be of interest:
https://code.google.com/p/netmap
our public repository for netmap/VALE code, including
linux versions and other stuff that does not belong here,
such as python bindings.
https://code.google.com/p/netmap-libpcap
a clone of the libpcap repository with netmap support.
With this any libpcap client has access to most netmap
feature with no recompilation. E.g. tcpdump can filter
packets at 10-15 Mpps.
https://code.google.com/p/netmap-ipfw
a userspace version of ipfw+dummynet which uses netmap
to send/receive packets. Speed is up in the 7-10 Mpps
range per core for simple rulesets.
Both netmap-libpcap and netmap-ipfw will be merged upstream at some
point, but while this happens it is useful to have access to them.
And yes, this code will be merged soon. It is infinitely better
than the version currently in 10 and 9.
MFC after: 3 days
This change makes ofw_iicbus attach to iicbb(4) controllers in addition to
the already supported i2c host bridges (iichb).
On iicbb(4) allow the direct access of the OFW parent node by its children,
so they can be directly attached to iicbb(4) node on the DTS without the
need of describing the i2c bus.
Approved by: adrian (mentor, implicit)
gpioled(4).
Tested on RPi and BBB (using the hardware I2C controller and gpioiic(4) for
the I2C tests). It was also verified for regressions on RSPRO (MIPS/ar71xx)
used as reference for a non OFW-based system.
Update the gpioled(4) and gpioiic(4) man pages with some details and
examples about the FDT/OFW support.
Some compatibility details pointed out by imp@ will follow in subsequent
commits.
Approved by: adrian (mentor, implicit)
describe GPIO bindings in the system.
Move the GPIOBUS lock macros to gpiobusvar.h as they are now shared between
the OFW and the non OFW versions of GPIO bus.
Export gpiobus_print_pins() so it can also be used on the OFW GPIO bus.
Approved by: adrian (mentor, implicit)
- Get USB input report length from HID descriptor.
- Use 1 finger TAP for devices which has no integrated button.
- Move data buffer to softc instead of allocating it.
MFC after: 1 week
should fix DMA descriptor caching issues seen with the EHCI controller
found in Google Chromebook C720 during removal and insertion of USB
devices.
MFC after: 1 week
Reported by: Matthew Dillon at DragonFlyBSD
I/O windows, the default is to preserve the firmware-assigned resources.
PCI bus numbers are only managed if NEW_PCIB is enabled and the architecture
defines a PCI_RES_BUS resource type.
- Add a helper API to create top-level PCI bus resource managers for each
PCI domain/segment. Host-PCI bridge drivers use this API to allocate
bus numbers from their associated domain.
- Change the PCI bus and CardBus drivers to allocate a bus resource for
their bus number from the parent PCI bridge device.
- Change the PCI-PCI and PCI-CardBus bridge drivers to allocate the
full range of bus numbers from secbus to subbus from their parent bridge.
The drivers also always program their primary bus register. The bridge
drivers also support growing their bus range by extending the bus resource
and updating subbus to match the larger range.
- Add support for managing PCI bus resources to the Host-PCI bridge drivers
used for amd64 and i386 (acpi_pcib, mptable_pcib, legacy_pcib, and qpi_pcib).
- Define a PCI_RES_BUS resource type for amd64 and i386.
Reviewed by: imp
MFC after: 1 month
hw.cxgbe.rsrv_noflow. When set, queue 0 of the port is reserved for
TX packets without a flowid. The hash value of packets with a flowid
is bumped up by 1. The intent is to provide a private queue for
link-level packets like LACP that is unlikely to overflow or suffer
deep queue latency.
Reviewed by: np
Obtained from: Netflix
MFC after: 3 days
Useful for so-called USB tethering.
- Imported code from OpenBSD
- Adapted code to FreeBSD
- Removed some unused functions
- Fixed some buffer encoding and decoding issues
- Optimised data transport path a bit, by sending multiple packets at a time
- Increased receive buffer to 16K
Obtained from: OpenBSD
Requested by: eadler @
MFC after: 2 weeks
9341-4i controller was to ensure that scatter/gather lists are ended with
an end-of-list marker. Both the mrsas and Linux megaraid_sas drivers use
this marker with Invader cards as well, so we do the same thing, though
it is apparently not strictly necessary.
Reviewed by: ambrisko
Tested by: ambrisko (Invader card)
MFC after: 3 weeks
Sponsored by: Sandvine Inc.
driver as version 8.037.00 for RTL8168{E-VL,EP,F,G,GU} and RTL8111B. This
makes reception of packets work with the RTL8168G (HW rev. 0x4c000000) in
my Shuttle DS47.
- Consistently use RL_MSI_MESSAGES.
In joint forces with: yongari
MFC after: 5 days
are mostly useful for debugging.
- hw.pci.clear_bars ignores all firmware-assigned ranges for BARs when
set.
- hw.pci.clear_pcib ignores all firmware-assigned ranges for PCI-PCI
bridge I/O windows when set.
MFC after: 1 week
Delaying isp_reqodx update, we should be ready to update it every time
we read it. Otherwise requests using several indexes may be requeued
ndefinitely without ever updating the variable.
MFC after: 3 days
a sub-node of nexus (ofwbus) rather than direct attach under nexus. This
fixes FDT on x86 and will make coexistence with ACPI on ARM systems easier.
SPARC is unchanged.
Reviewed by: imp, ian
allow mrsas(4) from LSI to attach to newer LSI cards that are support by
mrsas(4). If mrsas(4) is not loaded into the system at boot then mfi(4)
will always attach. If a modified mrsas(4) is loaded in the system. That
modification is return "-30" in it's probe since that is between
BUS_PROBE_DEFAULT and BUS_PROBE_LOW_PRIORITY.
This option is controller by a new probe flag "MFI_FLAGS_MRSAS" in mfi_ident
that denotes cards that should work with mrsas(4). New entries that should
have this option.
This is the first step to get mrsas(4) checked into FreeBSD and to avoid
collision with people that use mrsas(4) from LSI. Since mfi(4) takes
priority, then mrsas(4) users need to rebuild GENERIC. Using the
.disabled="1" method doesn't work since that blocks attaching and the
probe gave it to mfi(4).
Discussed with: LSI (Kashyap Desai)
to check the status property in their probe routines.
Simplebus used to only instantiate its children whose status="okay"
but that was improper behavior, fixed in r261352. Now that it doesn't
check anymore and probes all its children; the children all have to
do the check because really only the children know how to properly
interpret their status property strings.
Right now all existing drivers only understand "okay" versus something-
that's-not-okay, so they all use the new ofw_bus_status_okay() helper.
process "status" properties of OF nodes.
I've avoided adding new KOBJ methods here so that we don't have to modify
every ofw_bus in the tree. Since 100% of implementations of ofw_bus use
only ofw_bus_gen_*(), it might be worth garbage-collecting the other
methods as well.
