DM9100/DM9102 chips. Do not set DC_TX_ONE. The DC_TX_USE_TX_INTR flag
causes dc_encap() to set the 'interrupt on TX completion' bit only
once every 64 packets. This is an attempt to reduce the number
of interrupts generated by the chip. You're supposed to get a 'no more
TX buffers left' interrupt once you hit the last packet whether you
ask for one or not, however it seems the Davicom chip doesn't generate
this interrupt, or at least it doesn't generate it under the same
circumstances. The result is that if you transmit n packets, where
n is less than 64, and then wait 5 seconds, you'll get a watchdog
timeout whether you want one or not. The DC_TX_INTR_ALWAYS causes
dc_encap() to request an interrupt for every frame.
I'm still waiting on confirmation from a couple of users to see if this
fixes their problems with the Davicom DM9102 before I merge this into
-stable, but this fixed the problem for me in my own testing so I'm
willing to make the change to -current right away.
expands beyond the limit we will extend the address space before trying
to zero the BSS. This should give us plenty of headroom for modest
expansion of the loader.
- Change the softintr() macro to do nothing on FreeBSD. Previously,
this macro would set a bit in spending and schedule the softinterrupt
thread to run. However, the bs driver never actually registers a
a software interrupt handler, so all this work achieved nothing. From
the code it is not clear what exactly the softintr() macro is actually
supposed to be doing. It looks like it is supposed to be possibly
running the hardware interrupt handler maybe? This handler is only
present in the #ifdef __NetBSD__ code however. I have no idea how this
driver handles interrupts at all, but at least it compiles now.
- Layout reorganisation to enhance portability. The driver now has
a relatively MI 'core' and a FreeBSD-specific layer over the top.
Since the NetBSD people have already done their own port, this is
largely just to help me with the BSD/OS port.
- Request ID allocation changed to improve performance (I'd been
considering switching to this approach after having failed to come
up with a better way to dynamically allocate request IDs, and seeing
Andy Doran use it in the NetBSD port of the driver convinced me
that I was wasting my time doing it any other way). Now we just
allocate all the requests up front.
- Maximum request count bumped back to 255 after characterisation
of a firmware issue (off-by-one causing it to crash with 256
outstanding commands).
- Control interface implemented. This allows 3ware's '3dm' utility to
talk to the controller. 3dm will be available from 3ware shortly.
- Controller soft-reset feature added; if the controller signals a
firmware or protocol error, the controller will be reset and all
outstanding commands will be retried.
type of software interrupt. Roughly, what used to be a bit in spending
now maps to a swi thread. Each thread can have multiple handlers, just
like a hardware interrupt thread.
- Instead of using a bitmask of pending interrupts, we schedule the specific
software interrupt thread to run, so spending, NSWI, and the shandlers
array are no longer needed. We can now have an arbitrary number of
software interrupt threads. When you register a software interrupt
thread via sinthand_add(), you get back a struct intrhand that you pass
to sched_swi() when you wish to schedule your swi thread to run.
- Convert the name of 'struct intrec' to 'struct intrhand' as it is a bit
more intuitive. Also, prefix all the members of struct intrhand with
'ih_'.
- Make swi_net() a MI function since there is now no point in it being
MD.
Submitted by: cp
- Close a small race condition. The sched_lock mutex protects
p->p_stat as well as the run queues. Another CPU could change p_stat
of the process while we are waiting for the lock, and we would end up
scheduling a process that isn't runnable.
usb_ethersubr.c. This module maintains two queues for packets which
are each protected with one mutex. These are all the changes I can
do for now. Removing the USBD_NO_TSLEEP flag doesn't work yet: when
I tried it, the system would usually freeze up after a NIC had been
operating for a while. The usb_ethersubr module itself ought to
go away; this is the next thing I need to test.
* Fixes to the signal delivery code. Not quite right yet.
I would have preferred to wait until I have signal delivery actually
working but the current kernel in CVS doesn't build.
mail:
The problem seems to originate with NFS's postop_attr
information that is returned with a read or write RPC.
Within a vm_fault context, the code cannot deal with
vnode_pager_setsize() shrinking a vnode.
The workaround in the patch below stops the nfsm_postop_attr()
macro from ever shrinking a vnode. If the new size in the
postop_attr information is smaller, then it just sets the
nfsnode n_attrstamp to 0 to stop the wrong size getting
used in the future. This change only affects postop_attr
attributes; the nfsm_loadattr() macro works as normal.
The change is implemented by adding a new argument to
nfs_loadattrcache() called 'dontshrink'. When this is
non-zero, nfs_loadattrcache() will never reduce the
vnode/nfsnode size; instead it zeros n_attrstamp.
There remain other was processes can get stuck in vmopar.
Submitted by: Ian Dowse <iedowse@maths.tcd.ie>
Reviewed by: dillon
Tested by: Vadim Belman <voland@lflat.org>
more include file including <sys/proc.h>, but there still is this wonky
and (causes warnings on i386) reference in globals.h.
CURTHD is now defined in <machine/globals.h> as well. The correct thing
to do is provide a platform function for this.
