tick driving logic to xl_tick(). Now xl_tick() handles MII tick as
well as periodic updating of statistics.
This change removes a hack used in interrupt handler where it
wanted to update statistics without driving MII tick.
picking the next available one. This may explain why xl(4) sees TX
underrun error with no queued frame. I hope this addresses a long
standing xl(4) watchdog timeout issue as well.
Obtained from: OpenBSD
RX descriptor ring. Previously it returned the number of frames
that were successfully passed to upper stack which in turn means it
ignored frames that were discarded due to errors. The number of
processed frames in RX descriptor ring is used to detect whether
driver is out of sync with controller's current descriptor pointer.
Returning number of processed frames reduces unnecessary (probably
wrong) re-synchronization.
While here, remove unnecessary local variable initialization.
handler for 3C90x and 3C90xB/C respectively. This simplifies ioctl
handler as well as enhancing readability.
While I'm here don't reprogram multicast filter when driver is not
running.
this there is a rare return path that bogusly appears
to fail when it should not. Also white space correction.
Thanks to Arnaud Lacombe for noticing the problem.
Quoting the ath9k commit message:
At present the noise floor calibration is processed in supported
control and extension chains rather than required chains.
Unnccesarily doing nfcal in all supported chains leads to
invalid nf readings on extn chains and these invalid values
got updated into history buffer. While loading those values
from history buffer is moving the chip to deaf state.
This issue was observed in AR9002/AR9003 chips while doing
associate/dissociate in HT40 mode and interface up/down
in iterative manner. After some iterations, the chip was moved
to deaf state. Somehow the pci devices are recovered by poll work
after chip reset. Raading the nf values in all supported extension chains
when the hw is not yet configured in HT40 mode results invalid values.
Reference: https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/753862/
Obtained from: Linux ath9k
The checks should function as follows:
* AR_SREV_<silicon> : check macVersion matches that version id
* AR_SREV_<silicon>_<revision> : check macVersion and macRevision match
the version / revision respectively
* AR_SREV_<silicon>_<revision>_OR_LATER: check that
+ if the chip silicon version == macVersion, enforce revision >= macRevision
+ if the chip silicon version > macVersion, allow it.
For example, AR_SREV_MERLIN() only matches AR9280 (any revision),
AR_SREV_MERLIN_10() would only match AR9280 version 1.0, but
AR_SREV_MERLIN_20_OR_LATER() matches AR9280 version >= 2.0 _AND_
any subsequent MAC (So AR9285, AR9287, etc.)
The specific fixes which may impact users:
* if there is Merlin hardware > revision 2.0, it'll now be correctly
matched by AR_SREV_MERLIN_20_OR_LATER() - the older code simply
would match on either Merlin 2.0 or a subsequent MAC (AR9285, AR9287, etc.)
* Kite version 1.1/1.2 should now correctly match. As these macros
are used in the AR9285 reset/attach path, and it's assumed that the
hardware is kite anyway, the behaviour shouldn't change. It'll only
change if these macros are used in other codepaths shared with
older silicon.
Obtained from: Linux ath9k, Atheros
Reference code that shows how to get a packet's timestamp out of
cxgbe(4). Disabled by default because we don't have a standard way
today to pass this information up the stack.
The timestamp is 60 bits wide and each increment represents 1 tick of
the T4's core clock. As an example, the timestamp granularity is ~4.4ns
for this card:
# sysctl dev.t4nex.0.core_clock
dev.t4nex.0.core_clock: 228125
MFC after: 1 week
- Enable 5-tuple and every-packet lookup.
- Setup the default filter mode to allow filtering/steering based on IP
protocol, ingress port, inner VLAN ID, IP frag, FCoE, and MPS match
type; all combined together. You can also filter based on MAC index,
Ethernet type, IP TOS/IPv6 Traffic Class, and outer VLAN ID but you'll
have to modify the default filter mode and exclude some of the
match-fields in it.
IPv4 and IPv6 SIP/DIP/SPORT/DPORT are always available in all filter
rules.
- Add driver ioctls to get/set the global filter mode.
- Add driver ioctls to program and delete hardware filters. A couple of
the "switch" actions that rewrite Ethernet and VLAN information and
switch the packet out of another port may not work as the L2 code is not
yet in place. Everything else, including all "drop" and "pass" rules
with RSS or absolute qid, should work.
Obtained from: Chelsio Communications
have similar hardware features of BCM5718 family except the number
of receive return ring is 4. The BCM57765 family is known to
support IEEE 802.3az EEE(Energy Efficient Ethernet) but this change
does not include EEE support code. I hope EEE is implemented in
near future.
This change will support BCM57761, BCM57765, BCM57781, BCM57785,
BCM57791 and BCM57795. All hardware offloading features are
supported and suspend/resume also should work.
Many thanks to Broadcom for continuing support of FreeBSD.
Tested by: Paul Thornton (prt <> prt dot org)
HW donated by: Broadcom
(reporting IFM_LOOP based on BMCR_LOOP is left in place though as
it might provide useful for debugging). For most mii(4) drivers it
was unclear whether the PHYs driven by them actually support
loopback or not. Moreover, typically loopback mode also needs to
be activated on the MAC, which none of the Ethernet drivers using
mii(4) implements. Given that loopback media has no real use (and
obviously hardly had a chance to actually work) besides for driver
development (which just loopback mode should be sufficient for
though, i.e one doesn't necessary need support for loopback media)
support for it is just dropped as both NetBSD and OpenBSD already
did quite some time ago.
- Let mii_phy_add_media() also announce the support of IFM_NONE.
- Restructure the PHY entry points to use a structure of entry points
instead of discrete function pointers, and extend this to include
a "reset" entry point. Make sure any PHY-specific reset routine is
always used, and provide one for lxtphy(4) which disables MII
interrupts (as is done for a few other PHYs we have drivers for).
This includes changing NIC drivers which previously just called the
generic mii_phy_reset() to now actually call the PHY-specific reset
routine, which might be crucial in some cases. While at it, the
redundant checks in these NIC drivers for mii->mii_instance not being
zero before calling the reset routines were removed because as soon
as one PHY driver attaches mii->mii_instance is incremented and we
hardly can end up in their media change callbacks etc if no PHY driver
has attached as mii_attach() would have failed in that case and not
attach a miibus(4) instance.
Consequently, NIC drivers now no longer should call mii_phy_reset()
directly, so it was removed from EXPORT_SYMS.
- Add a mii_phy_dev_attach() as a companion helper to mii_phy_dev_probe().
The purpose of that function is to perform the common steps to attach
a PHY driver instance and to hook it up to the miibus(4) instance and to
optionally also handle the probing, addition and initialization of the
supported media. So all a PHY driver without any special requirements
has to do in its bus attach method is to call mii_phy_dev_attach()
along with PHY-specific MIIF_* flags, a pointer to its PHY functions
and the add_media set to one. All PHY drivers were updated to take
advantage of mii_phy_dev_attach() as appropriate. Along with these
changes the capability mask was added to the mii_softc structure so
PHY drivers taking advantage of mii_phy_dev_attach() but still
handling media on their own do not need to fiddle with the MII attach
arguments anyway.
- Keep track of the PHY offset in the mii_softc structure. This is done
for compatibility with NetBSD/OpenBSD.
- Keep track of the PHY's OUI, model and revision in the mii_softc
structure. Several PHY drivers require this information also after
attaching and previously had to wrap their own softc around mii_softc.
NetBSD/OpenBSD also keep track of the model and revision on their
mii_softc structure. All PHY drivers were updated to take advantage
as appropriate.
- Convert the mebers of the MII data structure to unsigned where
appropriate. This is partly inspired by NetBSD/OpenBSD.
- According to IEEE 802.3-2002 the bits actually have to be reversed
when mapping an OUI to the MII ID registers. All PHY drivers and
miidevs where changed as necessary. Actually this now again allows to
largely share miidevs with NetBSD, which fixed this problem already
9 years ago. Consequently miidevs was synced as far as possible.
- Add MIIF_NOMANPAUSE and mii_phy_flowstatus() calls to drivers that
weren't explicitly converted to support flow control before. It's
unclear whether flow control actually works with these but typically
it should and their net behavior should be more correct with these
changes in place than without if the MAC driver sets MIIF_DOPAUSE.
Obtained from: NetBSD (partially)
Reviewed by: yongari (earlier version), silence on arch@ and net@
driver would verify that requests for child devices were confined to any
existing I/O windows, but the driver relied on the firmware to initialize
the windows and would never grow the windows for new requests. Now the
driver actively manages the I/O windows.
This is implemented by allocating a bus resource for each I/O window from
the parent PCI bus and suballocating that resource to child devices. The
suballocations are managed by creating an rman for each I/O window. The
suballocated resources are mapped by passing the bus_activate_resource()
call up to the parent PCI bus. Windows are grown when needed by using
bus_adjust_resource() to adjust the resource allocated from the parent PCI
bus. If the adjust request succeeds, the window is adjusted and the
suballocation request for the child device is retried.
When growing a window, the rman_first_free_region() and
rman_last_free_region() routines are used to determine if the front or
end of the existing I/O window is free. From using that, the smallest
ranges that need to be added to either the front or back of the window
are computed. The driver will first try to grow the window in whichever
direction requires the smallest growth first followed by the other
direction if that fails.
Subtractive bridges will first attempt to satisfy requests for child
resources from I/O windows (including attempts to grow the windows). If
that fails, the request is passed up to the parent PCI bus directly
however.
The PCI-PCI bridge driver will try to use firmware-assigned ranges for
child BARs first and only allocate a "fresh" range if that specific range
cannot be accommodated in the I/O window. This allows systems where the
firmware assigns resources during boot but later wipes the I/O windows
(some ACPI BIOSen are known to do this) to "rediscover" the original I/O
window ranges.
The ACPI Host-PCI bridge driver has been adjusted to correctly honor
hw.acpi.host_mem_start and the I/O port equivalent when a PCI-PCI bridge
makes a wildcard request for an I/O window range.
The new PCI-PCI bridge driver is only enabled if the NEW_PCIB kernel option
is enabled. This is a transition aide to allow platforms that do not
yet support bus_activate_resource() and bus_adjust_resource() in their
Host-PCI bridge drivers (and possibly other drivers as needed) to use the
old driver for now. Once all platforms support the new driver, the
kernel option and old driver will be removed.
PR: kern/143874 kern/149306
Tested by: mav
Rationale:
- unlike current behavior this seems to be compliant with OSS
specification:
http://manuals.opensound.com/developer/SNDCTL_DSP_GETIPTR.html
- this seems to meet expectations of some OSS programs compiled for or
ported from Linux, e.g. ALSA OSS plugin
- this doesn't seem to break any programs as far as current testing
shows
Tested by: nox, hselasky
MFC after: 4 days
sectors with all-zeroes.
The zeroes come from a static buffer; null(4) uses a dynamic buffer for
the same purpose (for /dev/zero). It might be a good idea to have a
static, shared, read-only all-zeroes page somewhere in the kernel that
md(4), null(4) and any other code that needs zeroes could use.
Reviewed by: kib
MFC after: 3 weeks
constraints on the rman and reject attempts to manage a region that is out
of range.
- Fix various places that set rm_end incorrectly (to ~0 or ~0u instead of
~0ul).
- To preserve existing behavior, change rman_init() to set rm_start and
rm_end to allow managing the full range (0 to ~0ul) if they are not set by
the caller when rman_init() is called.
For these devices, the number of supported ports is read from a register
in BAR 0.
PR: kern/134878
Submitted by: David Wood david of wood2 org uk
MFC after: 1 week
The AR9130 is an AR9160/AR5416 family WMAC which is glued directly
to the AR913x SoC peripheral bus (APB) rather than via a PCI/PCIe
bridge.
The specifics:
* A new build option is required to use the AR9130 - AH_SUPPORT_AR9130.
This is needed due to the different location the RTC registers live
with this chip; hopefully this will be undone in the future.
This does currently mean that enabling this option will break non-AR9130
builds, so don't enable it unless you're specifically building an image
for the AR913x SoC.
* Add the new probe, attach, EEPROM and PLL methods specific to Howl.
* Add a work-around to ah_eeprom_v14.c which disables some of the checks
for endian-ness and magic in the EEPROM image if an eepromdata block
is provided. This'll be fixed at a later stage by porting the ath9k
probe code and making sure it doesn't break in other setups (which
my previous attempt at this did.)
* Sprinkle Howl modifications throughput the interrupt path - it doesn't
implement the SYNC interrupt registers, so ignore those.
* Sprinkle Howl chip powerup/down throughout the reset path; the RTC methods
were
* Sprinkle some other Howl workarounds in the reset path.
* Hard-code an alternative setup for the AR_CFG register for Howl, that
sets up things suitable for Big-Endian MIPS (which is the only platform
this chip is glued to.)
This has been tested on the AR913x based TP-Link WR-1043nd mode, in
legacy, HT/20 and HT/40 modes.
Caveats:
* 2ghz has only been tested. I've not seen any 5ghz radios glued to this
chipset so I can't test it.
* AR5416_INTERRUPT_MITIGATION is not supported on the AR9130. At least,
it isn't implemented in ath9k. Please don't enable this.
* This hasn't been tested in MBSS mode or in RX/TX block-aggregation mode.
allocated, not the maximum number of messages the device supports. The
spec only requires the former, and I believe I implemented the latter due
to misunderstanding an e-mail. In particular, this fixes an issue where
having several devices that all support 16 messages can run out of
IDT vectors on x86 even though the driver only uses a single message.
Submitted by: Bret Ketchum bcketchum of gmail
MFC after: 1 week
adding appropriate #ifdefs. For module builds the framework needs
adjustments for at least carp.
Reviewed by: gnn
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Sponsored by: iXsystems
MFC after: 4 days
the watchdog, via the watchdog(9) interface.
For that, the WD_LASTVAL bitwise operation is used. It is mutually
exclusive with any explicit timout passing to the watchdogs.
The last timeout can be returned via the wdog_kern_last_timeout()
KPI.
- Add the possibility to pat the watchdogs installed via the watchdog(9)
interface from the kernel.
In order to do that the new KPI wdog_kern_pat() is offered and it does
accept normalized nanoseconds or WD_LASTVAL.
- Avoid to pass WD_ACTIVE down in the watchdog handlers. All the control
bit processing should over to the upper layer functions and not passed
down to the handlers at all.
These changes are intended to be used in order to fix up the watchdog
tripping in situation when the userland is busted, but protection is still
wanted (examples: shutdown syncing / disk dumping).
Sponsored by: Sandvine Incorporated
Reviewed by: emaste, des, cognet
MFC after: 2 weeks
will generate a short terminated USB transfer if
the maximum NCM frame size is greater than what
the driver can handle.
Reported by: Matthias Benesch
MFC after: 7 days
Approved by: thompsa (mentor)
- Also a couple minor tweaks to the TX code from the same source.
- Add the INET ioctl code which has been missing from this driver,
and which caused IP aliases to reset the interface.
- Last, some minor logic changes that just reflect upcoming
hardware support, but have no other functional effect now.
MFC after a week
Writing the TX power registers is the same between all of these chips
and later NICs (AR9287, AR9271 USB, etc.) so this will reduce code
duplication when those NICs are added to the HAL.
spurious (and fatal) interrupt errors.
One user reported seeing this:
Apr 22 18:04:24 ceres kernel: ar5416GetPendingInterrupts: fatal error,
ISR_RAC 0x0 SYNC_CAUSE 0x2000
SYNC_CAUSE of 0x2000 is AR_INTR_SYNC_LOCAL_TIMEOUT which is a bus timeout;
this shouldn't cause HAL_INT_FATAL to be set.
After checking out ath9k, ath9k_ar9002_hw_get_isr() clears (*masked)
before continuing, regardless of whether any bits in the ISR registers
are set. So if AR_INTR_SYNC_CAUSE is set to something that isn't
treated as fatal, and AR_ISR isn't read or is read and is 0, then
(*masked) wouldn't be cleared. Thus any of the existing bits set
that were passed in would be preserved in the output.
The caller in if_ath - ath_intr() - wasn't setting the masked value
to 0 before calling ath_hal_getisr(), so anything that was present
in that uninitialised variable would be preserved in the case above
of AR_ISR=0, AR_INTR_SYNC_CAUSE != 0; and if the HAL_INT_FATAL bit
was set, a fatal condition would be interpreted and the chip was
reset.
This patch does the following:
* ath_intr() - set masked to 0 before calling ath_hal_getisr();
* ar5416GetPendingInterrupts() - clear (*masked) before processing
continues; so if the interrupt source is AR_INTR_SYNC_CAUSE
and it isn't fatal, the hardware isn't reset via returning
HAL_INT_FATAL.
This doesn't fix any underlying errors which trigger
AR_INTR_SYNC_LOCAL_TIMEOUT - which is a bus timeout of some
sort - so that likely should be further investigated.
- Centralize PCI resource allocation/release.
- Enable flowid (TSS) support.
- Added "per-fastpath" locks and watchdog timeouts.
- Fixed problem where the CQ producer index was advanced beyond
the size of the CQ ring during initialization.
- Replaced hard-coded debug levels in some debug print statements.
- More style(9) fixes.
MFC after: Two weeks
should respond with all zeroes to any access to slave registers. Test with
PATA devices confirmed such behavior. Unluckily, Intel SATA controllers in
legacy emulation mode behave differently, not making any difference between
ATA and ATAPI devices. It causes false positive slave device detection and,
as result, command timeouts.
To workaround this problem, mask result of legacy-emulated soft-reset with
the device presence information received from the SATA-specific registers.
- TCO_MESSAGEx: TCO specific regs providing the ability to monitor BIOS
bootup activity.
- TCO_NEWCENTURY: reporting RTC year roll over.
- TCO_NMI2SMI_EN, TCO_NMI_NOW: controlling SMIs conversion to NMIs and
NMI trigger.
- SMI_GBL_EN: Enabling SMI delivery for all the northbridge controller.
MFC after: 10 days
This improves hard-reset and hot-plug on these ports.
- Device with ID 0x29218086 is a 2-port variant of ICH9 in legacy mode.
Skip probing for nonexistent slave devices there.
It allows to avoid false positive device detection under Xen, that caused
long probe delays due to subsequent IDENTIFY command timeouts.
MFC after: 1 month
that could have allowed the hardware pidx to reach the cidx even though
the freelist isn't empty. (Haven't actually seen this but it was there
waiting to happen..)
MFC after: 1 week
now a suitable base for all kinds of egress queues.
- Add control queues (sge_ctrlq) and allocate one of these per hardware
channel. They can be used to program filters and steer traffic (and
more).
MFC after: 1 week
- If a ENH_SENS TLV section exit the firmware is capable of doing
enhanced sensitivity calibration.
- Newer devices/firmwares have more calibration commands therefore
hardcoding the noise gain/reset commands no longer works. It is
supposed to use the next index after the newest calibration type
support. Read the command index of the TLV section if available.
This support has not worked for several years, and is not likely to work
again, unless Intel decides to release a native FreeBSD version of their
compiler. ;)
It's also marked inactive by the initvals, and enabled after
the baseband/PLL has been configured, but before the RF
registers have been programmed.
The origin and reason for this particular change is currently unknown.
Obtained from: Linux ath9k
- 6000 series devices need enhanced sensitivity calibration.
- 6000 series devices need a different setting for the shadow reg.
- set the IWN_FLAG_HAS_11N bit if the EEPROM says the device has 11n
support.
Obtained from: OpenBSD
Antenna diversity on the >= AR5416 is implemented differently than the
AR5212 and previous chips. So for now, and not to confuse things, just
disable it for now.
- read RSSI only for the active chains
- cast RSSI/NF to int8_t before passing it up to radiotap
- remove the htole64() for the timestamp
Obtained from: OpenBSD
- there is a local variable for sc->fw_dma, use that instead
- OpenBSD uses 5*hz to wait for firmware to be loaded
- in case the firmware module contains invalid data, actually release it
- use ATA_SE_EXCHANGED (SError.DIAG.X) bit to detect hot-plug events when
power-management enabled and ATA_SE_PHY_CHANGED (SError.DIAG.N) can't be
trusted;
- on controllers supporting staggered spin-up (SS) put unused channels
into Listen state instead of Off. It should still save some power, but
allow plug-in events to be detected;
- on controllers supporting cold presence detection (CPD), when power
management enabled, use CPD events to detect hot-plug in addition to PHY
events.
down. The ingress queue lock was unused and has been removed as part of
these changes.
- An in-flight egress update from the SGE must be handled before the
queue that requested it is destroyed. Wait for the update to arrive.
- Interrupt handlers must stop processing rx events for a queue before
the queue is destroyed. Events that have not yet been processed
should be ignored once the queue disappears.
MFC after: 1 week
from scratch. Remove htole16() calls, rxon.chan is an uint8_t,
ieee80211_chan2ieee() does return an ic_ieee as an int, but I heavily
doubt a htole16() will buy us anything here.
- IWN_TXOP_TO_US is equal to IEEE80211_TXOP_TO_US
- use IEEE80211_DUR_TU
- ieee80211_add_rates/ieee80211_add_xrates are public, use em
- copied ieee80211_add_ssid it is not public
Instead of spinning in a tight loop for up to 15 seconds, polling for device
readiness while it spins up, return reset completion just after PHY reports
"connect well" or 100ms connection timeout. If device was found, use callout
for checking device readiness with 100ms period up to full 31 second timeout.
This fixes system freeze for 5-10 seconds on drives hot plug-in.
- make SATA SIMs announce capabilities to handle SDB with Notification bit;
- make PMP driver honor this SIMs capability;
- make SATA XPT to negotiate and enable this feature for ATAPI devices.
This feature allows supporting SATA ATAPI devices to inform system about
some events happened, that may require attention. In my case this allows
LG GH22LS50 SATA DVR-RW drive to report tray open/close events. Events
reported to CAM in form of AC_SCSI_AEN async. Further they could be used
as a hints for checking device status and reporting media change to upper
layers, for example, via spoiling mechanism of GEOM.
diversity.
This is bit dirty and likely should be revised at a later date,
with an eye to unifying/tidying up the whole diversity setup
and allowing developers to do "tricky stuff" as they desire.
For now, this works.
* add a new method, specifically for doing per-RX packet
antenna diversity
* set that HAL method only if it's Kite and a Kite chip that
does diversity.
* add a diversity flag to the HAL debugging section
* add a check to make sure the kite diversity code doesn't run
on boards that don't require it, as not all Kite chips will
implement it.
* add some debug statements when the diversity code makes
changes to the antenna diversity/combining setup.
controller port readiness (that should set just after PHY ready signal),
reduce wait time from 10s to 1s before trying more aggressive reset method.
This should improve system responsibility in some failure conditions.
Note: this HAL currently only supports the AR9285.
From Linux ath9k:
The problem is that when the attenuation is increased,
the rate will start to drop from MCS7 -> MCS6, and finally
will see MCS1 -> CCK_11Mbps. When the rate is changed b/w
CCK and OFDM, it will use register desired_scale to calculate
how much tx gain need to change.
The output power with the same tx gain for CCK and OFDM modulated
signals are different. This difference is constant for AR9280
but not AR9285/AR9271. It has different PA architecture
a constant. So it should be calibrated against this PA
characteristic.
The driver has to read the calibrated values from EEPROM and set
the tx power registers accordingly.
Instead of spinning in a tight loop for up to 15 seconds, polling for device
readiness while it spins up, return reset completion just after PHY reports
"connect well" or 100ms connection timeout. If device was found, use callout
for checking device readiness with 100ms period up to full 31 second timeout.
This fixes system freeze for 5-10 seconds on drives hot plug-in.
bus driver at detach, hence ehci_detach() does exactly this since r199718.
Submitted by: Luiz Otavio O Souza
MFC after: 7 days
Approved by: thompsa (mentor)
SCSI status errors to CAM (that was wrong, as it too often turned retriable
wire errors into non-retriable REQUEST SENSE errors), do it only for STALL
errors on control pipe of the CBI devices. STALL on control pipe is just
a one of the ways to report error for CBI devices.
PR: usb/150401, usb/154593.
Reviewed by: hselasky
MFC after: 1 week
ctl/ext noise floor values.
This routine doesn't check to see whether the radio is MIMO
capable - instead, it simply returns either the raw values,
the "nominal" values if the raw values aren't yet available
or are invalid, or '0' values if there's no valid channel/
no valid MIMO values.
Callers are expected to verify the radio is a MIMO radio
(which for now means it's an 11n chipset, there are non-11n
MIMO chipsets out there but I don't think we support them,
at least in MIMO mode) before exporting the MIMO values.
upper-level HAL.
Right now the per-chain noise floor values aren't used anywhere in
the upper-level HAL, so the driver currently has no real reference
to compare the per-chain RSSI values to.
This is needed before per-chain RSSI values (for ctl and ext radios)
are can be thrown upstairs to the net80211 code.
safer for i386 because it can be easily over 4 GHz now. More worse, it can
be easily changed by user with 'machdep.tsc_freq' tunable (directly) or
cpufreq(4) (indirectly). Note it is intentionally not used in performance
critical paths to avoid performance regression (but we should, in theory).
Alternatively, we may add "virtual TSC" with lower frequency if maximum
frequency overflows 32 bits (and ignore possible incoherency as we do now).
chain to be corrupted.
- Removed many console print warnings and replaced with driver maintained
counters.
- Several style(9) fixes.
MFC after: One week.
improves command timeout handling.
Many thanks to Areca for continuing to support FreeBSD.
Submitted by: Ching-Lung Huang <ching2048 areca com tw>
MFC after: 2 months
This fixes a long standing bug in mxge(4) where "ifconfig mxge0 $IP"
did not bring the interface into a RUNNING state, like it does on
most (all?) other FreeBSD NIC drivers.
Thanks to gnn for mentioning the bug, and yongari for pointing out that
ether_ioctl() invokes ifp->if_init() in SIOCSIFADDR.
MFC after: 7 days
- Add the change made in em to the actual unrefreshed number
of descriptors is used as a basis in rxeof on the way out
to determine if more refresh is needed. NOTE: there is a
difference in the ring setup in igb, this is not accidental,
it is necessitated by hardware behavior, when you reset the
newer adapters it will not let you write RDH, it ALWAYS sets
it to 0. Thus the way em does it is not possible.
- Change the sysctl handling of flow control, it will now make
the change dynamically when the variable setting changes rather
than requiring a reset.
- Change the eee sysctl naming, validation found the old unintuitive :)
- Last but not least, some important performance tweaks in the TX
path, I found that UDP behavior could be drastically hindered or
improved with just small changes in the start loop. What I have
here is what testing has shown to be the best overall. Its interesting
to note that changing the clean threshold to start at a full half of
the ring, made a BIG difference in performance. I hope that this
will prove to be advantageous for most workloads.
MFC in a week.
show that there are perfectly working PM timers with occasional "hiccups",
probably because of an SMI. Now we ignore the maximum if it happens once in
the test loop and the width is small enough. Also, relax normal width a bit
to count in a boundary case.
Unlike other controllers which have more advanced jumbo support,
these controllers have one send ring, one standard receive producer
ring and one receive return ring. In order to receive jumbo frames
on the controllers, driver now will increase Rx buffer size to 9k.
Two Rx modes are supported on these controllers and I chose
standard Rx BDs over extended Rx BDs. The extended Rx BD mode
allows up to 4 segmentations for each Rx BDs such that kernel does
not have to allocate large buffer of contiguous memory for
receiving. The extended Rx BD mode is already used on controllers
that have separate jumbo receive ring. However, using extended Rx
BDs on BCM5714/BCM5715/BCM5780 reduces the number of Rx BDs to 256
entries which in turn may reduce the performance. Also UMA backed
page allocator for jumbo frame returns contiguous memory so using
extended Rx BD has no advantage on FreeBSD unless highly customized
local allocator implemented in driver is used.
To use jumbo buffers in standard receive ring, Rx buffer allocation
handler was changed to allocate MJUM9BYTES sized mbuf.
PR: kern/155192
Tested by: Vijay Singh <vijju.singh <> gmail dot com>
Submitted by: mjacob (initial version)
