This is pretty much fixes any issue I can find:
- Watchdog timeouts were due to starting the TX DMA engine
before we had a packet ready for it. So the first packet
sent never got out only if we sent more then one packet
at a time did the others make it out and not blow up.
Of course reseting the chip then caused us not to transmit
the first packet again ie. catch-22. This required logic changes.
- Combine interrupts on TX packets being queued up.
- Don't keep running around the RX ring since we might get
out of sync so only go around once per receive
- Let the RX engine recover via the poll interface which is
similar to the TX interface. This way the chip wakes
up with no effort when we read enough packets.
- Do better hand-shaking on RX & TX packets so they don't
start of to soon.
- Force a duplex setting when the link comes up after
an ste_init or it will default to half-duplex and be
really slow. This only happens on subsequent ste_init.
The first one worked.
- Don't call stat_update for every overflow. We only monitor
the collisions so the tick interval is good enough for that.
Just read in the collision stats to minimize bus reads.
- Don't read the miibus every tick since it uses delays and
delays are not good for performance.
- Tie link events directly to the miibus code so the port
gets set correctly if someone changes the port settings.
- Reduce the extreme number of {R,T}FD's. They would consume
130K of kernel memory for each NIC.
- Set the TX_THRESH to wait for the DMA engine to complete
before running the TX FIFO. This hurts peak TX performance
but under bi-directional load the DMA engine can't keep up
with the FIFO. Testing shows that we end up in the case
anyways (a la dc(4) issues but worse since the RX engine hogs
everything).
- When stopping the card do a reset since the reset verifies the
card has stopped. Otherwise on heavy RX load the RX DMA engine
is still stuffing packets into memory. If that happens after
we free the DMA area memory bits get scribled in memory and
bad things happen.
This card still has seemingly unfixable issues under heavy RX load in
which the card takes over the PCI bus.
Sponsored by: Vernier Networks
MFC after: 1 week
argument, not the 'type' argument. As a result of the buf, the
MAC label on some packet header mbufs might not be set in mbufs
allocated using m_getcl(), resulting in a page fault.
Obtained from: TrustedBSD Project
Sponsored by: DARPA, NAI Labs
vnode operations. This permits the rights of the user (typically root)
used to turn on accounting to be used when writing out accounting entries,
rather than the credentials of the process generating the accounting
record. This fixes accounting in a number of environments, including
file systems that offer revocation support, MAC environments, some
securelevel scenarios, and in some NFS environments.
Obtained from: TrustedBSD Project
Sponsored by: DARPA, NAI Labs
the initproc credential from the proc0 credential. Otherwise, the
proc0 credential is used instead of initproc's credentil when authorizing
start_init() activities prior to initproc hitting userland for the
first time. This could result in the incorrect credential being used
to authorize mounting of the root file system, which could in turn cause
problems for NFS when used in combination with uid/gid ipfw rules, or
with MAC.
Discussed with: julian
invocations of each service from a single IP address.
Requested by: matusita
Reviewed by: dwmalone
Tested by: matusita on snapshots.jp.FreeBSD.org
MFC after: 2 weeks
Remove some unnecessary assignments to mbuf fields in sis_newbuf(),
the "length" fields are of no use while the mbuf is in the receive ring.
MFC after: 3 days
endless recursion bug similar to the one that has been fixed in
release/Makefile,v 1.698, in advance. A related fix to make(1)
has been committed in make/main.c,v 1.68.
Requested by: bde (who has them merged already)
to parse the binary .kld file as a list of symbols. Fix this by
simply deleting the unwanted argument from the ARGV[] array instead
of trying to skip over it.
to the address of the user's aiocb rather than the kernel's aiocb. (In other
words, prior to this change, the ident field returned by kevent(2) on
completion of an AIO was effectively garbage.)
Submitted by: Romer Gil <rgil@cs.rice.edu>
cninit. This allows a console driver to replace the existing console
by calling cninit again, eg during the device probe. Otherwise the
multiple console code sends output to both, which is unfortunate if
they're using the same hardware.
about calls to SYSCTL_OUT() made with locks held if the buffer has not
been pre-wired. SYSCTL_OUT() should not be called while holding locks,
but if this is not possible, the buffer should be wired by calling
sysctl_wire_old_buffer() before grabbing any locks.
holiday on 6 August. Since this claim isn't dependent on the weekday,
I have my strong doubts about the other locations too, but I can't
confirm, so I'm leaving them in.
