- netmap pipes, providing bidirectional blocking I/O while moving
100+ Mpps between processes using shared memory channels
(no mistake: over one hundred million. But mind you, i said
*moving* not *processing*);
- kqueue support (BHyVe needs it);
- improved user library. Just the interface name lets you select a NIC,
host port, VALE switch port, netmap pipe, and individual queues.
The upcoming netmap-enabled libpcap will use this feature.
- optional extra buffers associated to netmap ports, for applications
that need to buffer data yet don't want to make copies.
- segmentation offloading for the VALE switch, useful between VMs.
and a number of bug fixes and performance improvements.
My colleagues Giuseppe Lettieri and Vincenzo Maffione did a substantial
amount of work on these features so we owe them a big thanks.
There are some external repositories that can be of interest:
https://code.google.com/p/netmap
our public repository for netmap/VALE code, including
linux versions and other stuff that does not belong here,
such as python bindings.
https://code.google.com/p/netmap-libpcap
a clone of the libpcap repository with netmap support.
With this any libpcap client has access to most netmap
feature with no recompilation. E.g. tcpdump can filter
packets at 10-15 Mpps.
https://code.google.com/p/netmap-ipfw
a userspace version of ipfw+dummynet which uses netmap
to send/receive packets. Speed is up in the 7-10 Mpps
range per core for simple rulesets.
Both netmap-libpcap and netmap-ipfw will be merged upstream at some
point, but while this happens it is useful to have access to them.
And yes, this code will be merged soon. It is infinitely better
than the version currently in 10 and 9.
MFC after: 3 days
describe GPIO bindings in the system.
Move the GPIOBUS lock macros to gpiobusvar.h as they are now shared between
the OFW and the non OFW versions of GPIO bus.
Export gpiobus_print_pins() so it can also be used on the OFW GPIO bus.
Approved by: adrian (mentor, implicit)
a new physmem.c file. The new code provides helper routines that can be
used by legacy SoCs and newer FDT-based systems. There are routines to
add one or more regions of physically contiguous ram, and exclude one or
more physically contiguous regions of ram. Ram can be excluded from crash
dumps, from being given over to the vm system for allocation management,
or both. After all the included and excluded regions have been added,
arm_physmem_init_kernel_globals() processes the regions into the global
dump_avail and phys_avail arrays and realmem and physmem variables that
communicate memory configuration to the rest of the kernel.
Convert all existing SoCs to use the new helper code.
This was an optimization used only by a few xscale platforms. Part of
the optimization was to create a direct map for all physical pages, and
that resulted in making multiple mappings of pages in a way that bypassed
the logic in pmap.c to handle VIVT cache aliasing. It also just generally
made the code more complex and hard to maintain for all SoCs.
Reviewed by: cognet
Useful for so-called USB tethering.
- Imported code from OpenBSD
- Adapted code to FreeBSD
- Removed some unused functions
- Fixed some buffer encoding and decoding issues
- Optimised data transport path a bit, by sending multiple packets at a time
- Increased receive buffer to 16K
Obtained from: OpenBSD
Requested by: eadler @
MFC after: 2 weeks
a sub-node of nexus (ofwbus) rather than direct attach under nexus. This
fixes FDT on x86 and will make coexistence with ACPI on ARM systems easier.
SPARC is unchanged.
Reviewed by: imp, ian
get the Routerboard 800 up and running with the vendor device tree. This
does not implement some BERI-specific features (which hopefully won't be
necessary soon), so move the old code to mips/beri, with a higher attach
priority when built, until MIPS interrupt domain support is rearranged.
This also fixes asserts on removal of the module for the mpc74xx.
The PowerPC 970 processors have two different types of events: direct events
and indirect events. Thus far only direct events are supported. I included
some documentation in the driver on how indirect events work, but support is
for the future.
MFC after: 1 month
paper trail now, this patch is similar to one posted for one of the
preliminary versions of a new armv6 port. I took them and made them
more generic. Option not enabled by default since each board/port has
to provide its own eputc, and possibly do other things as well...
CFLAGS.clang in sys/conf/Makefile.arm, since the main kernel build does
not use <bsd.sys.mk>. So revert that particular change for now.
Pointy hat to: me
Noticed by: zbb
MFC after: 3 days
X-MFC-With: r259730
drivers and their firmware were under active development, but those days
have passed. The firmware now exists in pre-compiled form, no longer
dependent on it's sources or on aicasm. If you wish to rebuild the
firmware from source, the glue still exists under the 'make firmware'
target in sys/modules/aic7xxx.
This also fixes the problem introduced with r257777 et al with building
kernels the old fashioned way in sys/$arch/compile/$CONFIG when the
ahc/ahd drivers were included.
related to setting up static device mappings. Since it was only used by
arm/mv/mv_pci.c, it's now just static functions within that file, plus
one public function that gets called only from arm/mv/mv_machdep.c.
modules which require this flag to compile. Use a GCC_MS_EXTENSIONS
variable, defined in kern.pre.mk, which can be used to easily supply the
flag (or not), depending on the compiler type.
MFC after: 3 days
clang-specific or gcc-specific flags, introduce the following new
variables for use in Makefiles:
CFLAGS.clang
CFLAGS.gcc
CXXFLAGS.clang
CXXFLAGS.gcc
In bsd.sys.mk, these get appended to the regular CFLAGS or CXXFLAGS for
the right compiler.
MFC after: 1 week
Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 and Snapdragon 400/600/800 SoCs and has architectural
similarities to ARM Cortex-A15. As for development boards IFC6400 series embedded
boards from Inforce Computing uses Snapdragon S4 Pro/APQ8064.
Approved by: stas (mentor)
o Include opt_splash.h for vt(9) to know when splash device is enabled.
o Build logo_freebsd.c only if splash and vt are enabled.
o Include opt_compat.h to know when we have to respect compatibility.
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
for signed values due to a compiler authors considering integer
overflow as impossible.
The change follows suit of other projects taking the same measure.
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 1 week
