We found routing performance dropped significantly when configuring
FreeBSD as a router, we are applying the following changes in order to
resolve those issues and hopefully perform better.
- don't prefetch the flags array, we usually don't need it
- prefetch the next cache line of each of the software descriptor arrays as
well as the first cache line of each of the next four packets' mbufs and
clusters
- reduce max copy size to 63 bytes
- convert rx soft descriptors from array of structures to a structure of arrays
- update copyrights
Submitted by: Matt Macy <mmacy@nextbsd.org>
- iflib - add checksum in place support (mmacy)
- iflib - initialize IP for TSO (going to be needed for e1000) (mmacy)
- iflib - move isc_txrx from shared context to softc context (mmacy)
- iflib - Normalize checks in TXQ drainage. (shurd)
- iflib - Fix queue capping checks (mmacy)
- iflib - Fix invalid assert, em can need 2 sentinels (mmacy)
- iflib - let the driver determine what capabilities are set and what
tx csum flags are used (mmacy)
- add INVARIANTS debugging hooks to gtaskqueue enqueue (mmacy)
- update bnxt(4) to support the changes to iflib (shurd)
Some other various, sundry updates. Slightly more verbose changelog:
Submitted by: mmacy@nextbsd.org
Reviewed by: shurd
mFC after:
Sponsored by: LimeLight Networks and Dell EMC Isilon
- Move group task queue into kern/subr_gtaskqueue.c
- Change intr_enable to return an int so it can be detected if it's not
implemented
- Allow different TX/RX queues per set to be different sizes
- Don't split up TX mbufs before transmit
- Allow a completion queue for TX as well as RX
- Pass the RX budget to isc_rxd_available() to allow an earlier return
and avoid multiple calls
Submitted by: shurd
Reviewed by: gallatin
Approved by: scottl
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D7393
"iflib is a library to eliminate the need for frequently duplicated device
independent logic propagated (poorly) across many network drivers."
Participation is purely optional. The IFLIB kernel config option is
provided for drivers that want to transition between legacy and iflib
modes of operation. ixl and ixgbe driver conversions will be committed
shortly. We hope to see participation from the Broadcom and maybe
Chelsio drivers in the near future.
Submitted by: mmacy@nextbsd.org
Reviewed by: gallatin
Differential Revision: D5211
