Smart NICs with firmware (eg wpi, iwn, the new atheros parts, the intel 7260
series, etc) support doing a lot of things in firmware. This includes but
isn't limited to things like scanning, sending probe requests and receiving
probe responses. However, net80211 doesn't know about any of this - it still
drives the whole scan/probe infrastructure itself.
In order to move towards suppoting smart NICs, the receive path needs to
know about the channel/details for each received packet. In at least
the iwn and 7260 firmware (and I believe wpi, but I haven't tried it yet)
it will do the scanning, power-save and off-channel buffering for you -
all you need to do is handle receiving beacons and probe responses on
channels that aren't what you're currently on. However the whole receive
path is peppered with ic->ic_curchan and manual scan/powersave handling.
The beacon parsing code also checks ic->ic_curchan to determine if the
received beacon is on the correct channel or not.[1]
So:
* add freq/ieee values to ieee80211_rx_stats;
* change ieee80211_parse_beacon() to accept the 'current' channel
as an argument;
* modify the iv_input() and iv_recv_mgmt() methods to include the rx_stats;
* add a new method - ieee80211_lookup_channel_rxstats() - that looks up
a channel based on the contents of ieee80211_rx_stats;
* if it exists, use it in the mgmt path to switch the current channel
(which still defaults to ic->ic_curchan) over to something determined
by rx_stats.
This is enough to kick-start scan offload support in the Intel 7260
driver that Rui/I are working on. It also is a good start for scan
offload support for a handful of existing NICs (wpi, iwn, some USB
parts) and it'll very likely dramatically improve stability/performance
there. It's not the whole thing - notably, we don't need to do powersave,
we should not scan all channels, and we should leave probe request sending
to the firmware and not do it ourselves. But, this allows for continued
development on the above features whilst actually having a somewhat
working NIC.
TODO:
* Finish tidying up how the net80211 input path works.
Right now ieee80211_input / ieee80211_input_all act as the top-level
that everything feeds into; it should change so the MIMO input routines
are those and the legacy routines are phased out.
* The band selection should be done by the driver, not by the net80211
layer.
* ieee80211_lookup_channel_rxstats() only determines 11b or 11g channels
for now - this is enough for scanning, but not 100% true in all cases.
If we ever need to handle off-channel scan support for things like
static-40MHz or static-80MHz, or turbo-G, or half/quarter rates,
then we should extend this.
[1] This is a side effect of frequency-hopping and CCK modes - you
can receive beacons when you think you're on a different channel.
In particular, CCK (which is used by the low 11b rates, eg beacons!)
is decodable from adjacent channels - just at a low SNR.
FH is a side effect of having the hardware/firmware do the frequency
hopping - it may pick up beacons transmitted from other FH networks
that are in a different phase of hopping frequencies.
- this should fail early unless the force flag is set
- if the force flag is set then any local modifications including
snapshots should be undone
See: https://www.illumos.org/issues/5912
See: https://reviews.csiden.org/r/220/
Reviewed by: mahrens, Paul Dagnelie <pcd@delphix.com>
MFC after: 15 days
Sponsored by: ClusterHQ
Support 7xxx adapters including firmware-assisted TSO and VLAN tagging:
- Solarflare Flareon Ultra 7000 series 10/40G adapters:
- Solarflare SFN7042Q QSFP+ Server Adapter
- Solarflare SFN7142Q QSFP+ Server Adapter
- Solarflare Flareon Ultra 7000 series 10G adapters:
- Solarflare SFN7022F SFP+ Server Adapter
- Solarflare SFN7122F SFP+ Server Adapter
- Solarflare SFN7322F Precision Time Synchronization Server Adapter
- Solarflare Flareon 7000 series 10G adapters:
- Solarflare SFN7002F SFP+ Server Adapter
Support utilities to configure adapters and update firmware.
The work is done by Solarflare developers
(Andy Moreton, Andrew Lee and many others),
Artem V. Andreev <Artem.Andreev at oktetlabs.ru> and me.
Sponsored by: Solarflare Communications, Inc.
MFC after: 2 weeks
Causually read by: gnn
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D2618
When building with gcc 4.9 and binutils 2.25,
using '--input' and '--output' returns an error
message:
objcopy: option `--input' is ambiguous
Reported by: Jenkins
writes the remaining time into the structure pointed to by rmtp
unless rmtp is NULL. The value of *rmtp can then be used to call
nanosleep() again and complete the specified pause if the previous
call was interrupted.
Note. clock_nanosleep() with an absolute time value does not write
the remaining time.
While here fix whitespaces and typo in SDT_PROBE.
implemented via ioctl interface. First of all return ENOTSUP for this
operation as a cp fallback to usual method in that case. Secondly, do
not print out the message about unimplemented operation.
Native ABI do not need signal conversion, only emulators may want this. Usually
emulators implements its own sv_sendsig method. For now only ibcs2 emulator does
not have own sv_sendsig implementation and depends on native sendsig() method.
So, remove any extra attempts to convert signal numbers from native sendsig()
methods except from i386 where ibsc2 is living.
1. Linux sigset always 64 bit on all platforms. In order to move Linux
sigset code to the linux_common module define it as 64 bit int. Move
Linux sigset manipulation routines to the MI path.
2. Move Linux signal number definitions to the MI path. In general, they
are the same on all platforms except for a few signals.
3. Map Linux RT signals to the FreeBSD RT signals and hide signal conversion
tables to avoid conversion errors.
4. Emulate Linux SIGPWR signal via FreeBSD SIGRTMIN signal which is outside
of allowed on Linux signal numbers.
PR: 197216
argument is not a null pointer, and the ss_flags member pointed to by ss
contains flags other than SS_DISABLE. However, in fact, Linux also
allows SS_ONSTACK flag which is simply ignored.
For buggy apps (at least mono) ignore other than SS_DISABLE
flags as a Linux do.
While here move MI part of sigaltstack code to the appropriate place.
Reported by: abi at abinet dot ru
