Having IPSEC compiled into the kernel imposes a non-trivial
performance penalty on multi-threaded workloads due to IPSEC
refcounting. In my benchmarks of multi-threaded UDP
transmit (connected sockets), I've seen a roughly 20% performance
penalty when the IPSEC option is included in the kernel (16.8Mpps
vs 13.8Mpps with 32 senders on a 14 core / 28 HTT Xeon
2697v3)). This is largely due to key_addref() incrementing and
decrementing an atomic reference count on the default
policy. This cause all CPUs to stall on the same cacheline, as it
bounces between different CPUs.
Given that relatively few users use ipsec, and that it can be
loaded as a module, it seems reasonable to ask those users to
load the ipsec module so as to avoid imposing this penalty on the
GENERIC kernel. Its my hope that this will make FreeBSD look
better in "out of the box" benchmark comparisons with other
operating systems.
Many thanks to ae for fixing auto-loading of ipsec.ko when
ifconfig tries to configure ipsec, and to cy for volunteering
to ensure the the racoon ports will load the ipsec.ko module
Reviewed by: cem, cy, delphij, gnn, jhb, jpaetzel
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D20163
tun(4) and tap(4) share the same general management interface and have a lot
in common. Bugs exist in tap(4) that have been fixed in tun(4), and
vice-versa. Let's reduce the maintenance requirements by merging them
together and using flags to differentiate between the three interface types
(tun, tap, vmnet).
This fixes a couple of tap(4)/vmnet(4) issues right out of the gate:
- tap devices may no longer be destroyed while they're open [0]
- VIMAGE issues already addressed in tun by kp
[0] emaste had removed an easy-panic-button in r240938 due to devdrn
blocking. A naive glance over this leads me to believe that this isn't quite
complete -- destroy_devl will only block while executing d_* functions, but
doesn't block the device from being destroyed while a process has it open.
The latter is the intent of the condvar in tun, so this is "fixed" (for
certain definitions of the word -- it wasn't really broken in tap, it just
wasn't quite ideal).
ifconfig(8) also grew the ability to map an interface name to a kld, so
that `ifconfig {tun,tap}0` can continue to autoload the correct module, and
`ifconfig vmnet0 create` will now autoload the correct module. This is a
low overhead addition.
(MFC commentary)
This may get MFC'd if many bugs in tun(4)/tap(4) are discovered after this,
and how critical they are. Changes after this are likely easily MFC'd
without taking this merge, but the merge will be easier.
I have no plans to do this MFC as of now.
Reviewed by: bcr (manpages), tuexen (testing, syzkaller/packetdrill)
Input also from: melifaro
Relnotes: yes
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D20044
Use it wherever COMPAT_FREEBSD11 is currently specified, like r309749.
Reviewed by: imp, jhb, markj
Sponsored by: Dell EMC Isilon
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D20120
iflib is already a module, but it is unconditionally compiled into the
kernel. There are drivers which do not need iflib(4), and there are
situations where somebody might not want iflib in kernel because of
using the corresponding driver as module.
Reviewed by: marius
Discussed with: erj
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 2 weeks
Differential revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D19041
The loader tunable 'debug.verbose_sysinit' may be used to toggle verbosity.
This is added to the debugging section of these kernconfs to be turned off
in stable branches for clarity of intent.
MFC after: never
The buslogic scsi driver has been tagged as gone in 12 for some time
now. Remove it. The nycbug dmesg database shows only one sighting in 6
for this driver. It was very popular in the early days of the project,
but that popularity seems to have died by 2004 when the nycbug
database started up.
Relnotes: yes
We tagged aha as gone in 12 a while ago. Proceed with its removal.
Data from nycbug's database shows the last sighting of this driver in
6, with the prior one in 4.x show its popularity had died prior to
4.x.
Relnotes: yes
- In configurations with a pseudo devices section, move 'device crypto'
into that section.
- Use a consistent comment. Note that other things common in kernel
configs such as GELI also require 'device crypto', not just IPSEC.
Reviewed by: rgrimes, cem, imp
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D16775
This turns on support for kernel dump encryption and compression, and
netdump. arm and mips platforms are omitted for now, since they are more
constrained and don't benefit as much from these features.
Reviewed by: cem, manu, rgrimes
Tested by: manu (arm64)
Relnotes: yes
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D15465
This driver was for an early and uncommon legacy PCI 10GbE for a single
ASIC, Intel 82597EX. Intel quickly shifted to the long lived ixgbe family.
Submitted by: kbowling
Reviewed by: brooks imp jeffrey.e.pieper@intel.com
Relnotes: yes
Sponsored by: Limelight Networks
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D15234
HEAD. Enable VIMAGE in GENERIC kernels and some others (where GENERIC does
not exist) on HEAD.
Disable building LINT-VIMAGE with VIMAGE being default.
This should give it a lot more exposure in the run-up to 12 to help
us evaluate whether to keep it on by default or not.
We are also hoping to get better performance testing.
The feature can be disabled using nooptions.
Requested by: many
Reviewed by: kristof, emaste, hiren
X-MFC after: never
Relnotes: yes
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D12639
FDC_DEBUG is not referenced in any c or header files but traces of it
still remain in other files.
PR: 105608
Reported by: Eugene Grosbein <ports AT grosbein DOT net>
Reviewed by: imp
Approved by: bcr (mentor)
MFC after: 7 days
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D10303
to add actions that run when a TCP frame is sent or received on a TCP
session in the ESTABLISHED state. In the base tree, this functionality is
only used for the h_ertt module, which is used by the cc_cdg, cc_chd, cc_hd,
and cc_vegas congestion control modules.
Presently, we incur overhead to check for hooks each time a TCP frame is
sent or received on an ESTABLISHED TCP session.
This change adds a new compile-time option (TCP_HHOOK) to determine whether
to include the hhook(9) framework for TCP. To retain backwards
compatibility, I added the TCP_HHOOK option to every configuration file that
already defined "options INET". (Therefore, this patch introduces no
functional change. In order to see a functional difference, you need to
compile a custom kernel without the TCP_HHOOK option.) This change will
allow users to easily exclude this functionality from their kernel, should
they wish to do so.
Note that any users who use a custom kernel configuration and use one of the
congestion control modules listed above will need to add the TCP_HHOOK
option to their kernel configuration.
Reviewed by: rrs, lstewart, hiren (previous version), sjg (makefiles only)
Sponsored by: Netflix
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D8185
have the serious problem of not actually attaching the hardware they
are driving at the bus level. This causes creator(4) and machfb(4)
to attach and drive the very same hardware in parallel when both
syscons(4) and vt(4) as well as their associated hardware drivers
are built into a kernel, i. e. GENERIC, at the same time.
Also, syscons(4) and its drivers still are way superior to vt(4) and
its equivalents; unlike the syscons(4) counterparts the vt(4) drivers
don't provide hardware acceleration resulting in considerably slower
screen drawing, creator_vt(4) doesn't provide a /dev/fb node as
required by the Xorg sunffb(4) etc. In theory, vt_ofwfb(4) should be
able to handle more devices than machfb(4). However, testing shows
that it hardly works with any hardware machfb(4) isn't also able to
drive, making vt(4) and vt_ofwfb(4) not favorable for the time being
from that perspective either.
MFC after: 3 days
needs to be enabled by adding "kern.racct.enable=1" to /boot/loader.conf.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D2407
Reviewed by: emaste@, wblock@
MFC after: 1 month
Relnotes: yes
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
WITNESS and INVARIANTS checking, which are known to have significant
performance impact on running systems. When benchmarking new features
this kernel should be used instead of the standard GENERIC.
This kernel configuration should never appear outside of the HEAD
of the FreeBSD tree.
have chosen different (and more traditional) stateless/statuful
NAT64 as translation mechanism. Last non-trivial commits to both
faith(4) and faithd(8) happened more than 12 years ago, so I assume
it is time to drop RFC3142 in FreeBSD.
No objections from: net@
provides support for a variety of low-end graphics hardware (SBus adapters,
Mach64, QEMU's framebuffer, XVR-100). A driver for at least the Creator3D
cards will have to be present before this can become the default console
driver.
To test vt(4) on sparc64, set kern.vty=vt at the loader prompt.
This is derived from the mps(4) driver, but it supports only the 12Gb
IT and IR hardware including the SAS 3004, SAS 3008 and SAS 3108.
Some notes about this driver:
o The 12Gb hardware can do "FastPath" I/O, and that capability is included in
this driver.
o WarpDrive functionality has been removed, since it isn't supported in
the 12Gb driver interface.
o The Scatter/Gather list handling code is significantly different between
the 6Gb and 12Gb hardware. The 12Gb boards support IEEE Scatter/Gather
lists.
Thanks to LSI for developing and testing this driver for FreeBSD.
share/man/man4/mpr.4:
mpr(4) man page.
sys/dev/mpr/*:
mpr(4) driver files.
sys/modules/Makefile,
sys/modules/mpr/Makefile:
Add a module Makefile for the mpr(4) driver.
sys/conf/files:
Add the mpr(4) driver.
sys/amd64/conf/GENERIC,
sys/i386/conf/GENERIC,
sys/mips/conf/OCTEON1,
sys/sparc64/conf/GENERIC:
Add the mpr(4) driver to all config files that currently
have the mps(4) driver.
sys/ia64/conf/GENERIC:
Add the mps(4) and mpr(4) drivers to the ia64 GENERIC
config file.
sys/i386/conf/XEN:
Exclude the mpr module from building here.
Submitted by: Steve McConnell <Stephen.McConnell@lsi.com>
MFC after: 3 days
Tested by: Chris Reeves <chrisr@spectralogic.com>
Sponsored by: LSI, Spectra Logic
Relnotes: LSI 12Gb SAS driver mpr(4) added
