if_start().
This removes the overlapping data path TX from occuring, which
solves quite a number of the potential TX queue races in ath(4).
It doesn't fix the net80211 layer TX queue races and it doesn't
fix the raw TX path yet, but it's an important step towards this.
This hasn't dropped the TX performance in my testing; primarily
because now the TX path can quickly queue frames and continue
along processing.
This involves a few rather deep changes:
* Use the ath_buf as a queue placeholder for now, as we need to be
able to support queuing a list of mbufs (ie, when transmitting
fragments) and m_nextpkt can't be used here (because it's what is
joining the fragments together)
* if_transmit() now simply allocates the ath_buf and queues it to
a driver TX staging queue.
* TX is now moved into a taskqueue function.
* The TX taskqueue function now dequeues and transmits frames.
* Fragments are handled correctly here - as the current API passes
the fragment list as one mbuf list (joined with m_nextpkt) through
to the driver if_transmit().
* For the couple of places where ath_start() may be called (mostly
from net80211 when starting the VAP up again), just reimplement
it using the new enqueue and taskqueue methods.
What I don't like (about this work and the TX code in general):
* I'm using the same lock for the staging TX queue management and the
actual TX. This isn't required; I'm just being slack.
* I haven't yet moved TX to a separate taskqueue (but the taskqueue is
created); it's easy enough to do this later if necessary. I just need
to make sure it's a higher priority queue, so TX has the same
behaviour as it used to (where it would preempt existing RX..)
* I need to re-review the TX path a little more and make sure that
ieee80211_node_*() functions aren't called within the TX lock.
When queueing, I should just push failed frames into a queue and
when I'm wrapping up the TX code, unlock the TX lock and
call ieee80211_node_free() on each.
* It would be nice if I could hold the TX lock for the entire
TX and TX completion, rather than this release/re-acquire behaviour.
But that requires that I shuffle around the TX completion code
to handle actual ath_buf free and net80211 callback/free outside
of the TX lock. That's one of my next projects.
* the ic_raw_xmit() path doesn't use this yet - so it still has
sequencing problems with parallel, overlapping calls to the
data path. I'll fix this later.
Tested:
* Hostap - AR9280, AR9220
* STA - AR5212, AR9280, AR5416
save queue code.
Instead, use if_transmit() directly - and handle the cases where frame
transmission fails.
I don't necessarily like this and I think at this point the M_ENCAP check,
node freeing upon fail and the actual if_transmit() call should be done
in methods in ieee80211_freebsd.c, but I digress slightly..
This removes one of the last few uses of if_start() and the ifnet
if_snd queue. The last major offender is ieee80211_output.c, where
ieee80211_start() implements if_start() and uses the ifnet queue
directly.
(There's a couple of gotchas here, where the if_start pointer is
compared to ieee80211_start(), but that's a later problem.)
CISS_MAX_LOGICAL to 107
Submitter wanted to increase the number of logical disks supported by ciss(4)
by simply raising the CISS_MAX_LOGICAL value even higher. Instead, consult
the documentation for the raid controller (OPENCISS) and poke the controller
bits to ask it for how many logical/physical disks it can handle.
Revert svn R242089 that raised CISS_MAX_LOGICAL to 64 for all controllers.
For older controllers that don't support this mechanism, fallback to the old
value of 16 logical disks. Tested on P420, P410, P400 and 6i model ciss(4)
controllers.
This should will be MFC'd back to stable/9 stable/8 and stable/7 after the MFC
period.
PR: kern/151564
Reviewed by: scottl@freebsd.org
MFC after: 2 weeks
This is the Compressed Local IPv6 table on the chip. To save space, the
chip uses an index into this table instead of a full IPv6 address in
some of its hardware data structures.
For now the driver fills this table with all the local IPv6 addresses
that it sees at the time the table is initialized. I'll improve this
later so that the table is updated whenever new IPv6 addresses are
configured or existing ones deleted.
MFC after: 1 week
as clean on shutdown and move that action from shutdown_pre_sync stage to
shutdown_post_sync to avoid extra flapping.
ZFS tends to not close devices on shutdown, that doesn't allow GEOM RAID
to shutdown gracefully. To handle that, mark volume as clean just when
shutdown time comes and there are no active writes.
MFC after: 2 weeks
as clean on shutdown and move that action from shutdown_pre_sync stage to
shutdown_post_sync to avoid extra flapping.
ZFS tends to not close devices on shutdown, that doesn't allow GEOM RAID
to shutdown gracefully. To handle that, mark volume as clean just when
shutdown time comes and there are no active writes.
PR: kern/113957
MFC after: 2 weeks
- Teach find_best_mtu_idx() to deal with IPv6 endpoints.
- Install correct protosw in offloaded TCP/IPv6 sockets when DDP is
enabled.
- Move set_tcp_ddp_ulp_mode to t4_tom.c so that t4_tom.h can be included
without having to drag in t4_msg.h too. This was bothering the iWARP
driver for some reason.
MFC after: 1 week
installing. This allows things like running installworld for 10-CURRENT
on a 9.0-RELEASE system without adding extra users and groups to the
passwd and group files.
To prevent potentially risky uid/gid mismatches on systems with
non-standard local values, require that DESTDIR be set if DB_FROM_SRC is
set.
Sponsored by: DARPA, AFRL
Reviewed by: peter
- Add full support for IPv6 addresses.
- Read the size of the L2 table during attach. Do not assume that PCIe
physical function 4 of the card has all of the table to itself.
- Use FNV instead of Jenkins to hash L3 addresses and drop the private
copy of jhash.h from the driver.
MFC after: 1 week
values with those in <sys/time.h>. Otherwise, if a program includes
<time.h> before <sys/time.h>, the CLOCK_PROCESS_CPUTIME_ID macro never
gets defined.
Reviewed by: davidxu
X-MFC-With: 239347
Instead of rechecking relative paths for all hashed utilities after a cd,
track if any utility in cmdtable depends on a relative path in PATH.
If there is such a utility, cd clears the entire table.
As a result, the '*' in hash no longer happens.
manpage. While here, exit early when there is nothing to do.
PR: 168415
Submitted by: Zhihao Yuan (initial version)
MFC after: 1 week
Approved by: kib (mentor)
ARM EABI syscall calling convention.
The current ABI encodes the syscall number in the instruction. This causes
issues with the thumb mode as it only has 8 bits to encode this value and
we have too many system calls and by using a register will simplify the
code to get the syscall number in the kernel.
With the ARM EABI we reuse the Linux calling convention by storing the
value in r7. Because of this we use both methods to encode the syscall
number in this function.
Set the v_hash for a new vnode in the getnewvnode() to the value
calculated based on the vnode structure address. Filesystems using
vfs_hash_insert() override the v_hash using the standard formula of
(inode_number + mnt_hashseed). For other filesystems, the
initialization allows the vfs_hash_index() to provide useful hash too.
Suggested, reviewed and tested by: peter
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 5 days
padding. On the amd64 kernel with INVARIANTS turned off, size of the
struct vnode is reduced from 496 to 472 bytes, saving 24 bytes of
memory and KVA per vnode.
Noted and reviewed by: peter
Tested by: pho
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
existing nullfs vnode by the lower vnode is only 16 slots. Since the
default mode for the nullfs is to cache the vnodes, hash has extremely
huge chains.
Size the nullfs hashtbl based on the current value of
desiredvnodes. Use vfs_hash_index() to calculate the hash bucket for a
given vnode.
Pointy hat to: kib
Diagnosed and reviewed by: peter
Tested by: peter, pho (previous version)
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 5 days
pre-masked hash for the given vnode. The function assumes that
vp->v_hash is initialized by the filesystem vnode instantiation
function. At the moment, it is only done if filesystem uses
vfs_hash_insert().
Reviewed by: peter
Tested by: peter, pho (previous version)
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 5 days
unsupported metadata types like Intel Smart Response to not corrupt them.
- Improve setting of these things during metadata writing to protect from
incapable BIOS'es and other implementations.
on Raspberry Pi.
o convert mmap address to physical.
o add FBIOGTYPE ioctl handler - allow to get screen resolution by new
xf86-video-scfb driver.
Originally designed for "Efika MX" project.
Sponsored by: FreeBSD Foundation
