netmap: improve netmap(4) and vale(4) man pages

Clean up obsolete sysctl descriptions and add missing ones.

PR:		243838
Reviewed by:	bcr
MFC after:	1 week
Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D23546
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Vincenzo Maffione 2020-02-07 19:26:26 +00:00
parent d54b0ffe9d
commit 723180da59
3 changed files with 26 additions and 23 deletions

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@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
.\"
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
.Dd November 8, 2019
.Dd February 6, 2020
.Dt NETMAP 4
.Os
.Sh NAME
@ -694,7 +694,7 @@ or
are called with a write event (POLLOUT/wfdset) or a full ring.
.Pp
When registering a virtual interface that is dynamically created to a
.Xr vale 4
.Nm VALE
switch, we can specify the desired number of rings (1 by default,
and currently up to 16) on it using nr_tx_rings and nr_rx_rings fields.
.It Dv NIOCTXSYNC
@ -861,8 +861,10 @@ The sysctl variable
.Va dev.netmap.admode
globally controls how netmap mode is implemented.
.Sh SYSCTL VARIABLES AND MODULE PARAMETERS
Some aspect of the operation of
Some aspects of the operation of
.Nm
and
.Nm VALE
are controlled through sysctl variables on
.Fx
.Em ( dev.netmap.* )
@ -883,15 +885,14 @@ Number of rings used for emulated netmap mode
Ring size used for emulated netmap mode
.It Va dev.netmap.generic_mit: 100000
Controls interrupt moderation for emulated mode
.It Va dev.netmap.mmap_unreg: 0
.It Va dev.netmap.fwd: 0
Forces NS_FORWARD mode
.It Va dev.netmap.flags: 0
.It Va dev.netmap.txsync_retry: 2
Number of txsync loops in the
.Nm VALE
flush function
.It Va dev.netmap.no_pendintr: 1
Forces recovery of transmit buffers on system calls
.It Va dev.netmap.mitigate: 1
Propagates interrupt mitigation to user processes
.It Va dev.netmap.no_timestamp: 0
Disables the update of the timestamp in the netmap ring
.It Va dev.netmap.verbose: 0
@ -914,6 +915,18 @@ as it impacts the total amount of memory used by netmap.
.It Va dev.netmap.if_curr_num: 0
.It Va dev.netmap.if_curr_size: 0
Actual values in use.
.It Va dev.netmap.priv_buf_num: 4098
.It Va dev.netmap.priv_buf_size: 2048
.It Va dev.netmap.priv_ring_num: 4
.It Va dev.netmap.priv_ring_size: 20480
.It Va dev.netmap.priv_if_num: 2
.It Va dev.netmap.priv_if_size: 1024
Sizes and number of objects (netmap_if, netmap_ring, buffers)
for private memory regions.
A separate memory region is used for each
.Nm VALE
port and each pair of
.Nm netmap pipes .
.It Va dev.netmap.bridge_batch: 1024
Batch size used when moving packets across a
.Nm VALE

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@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\" $Id: $
.\"
.Dd January 9, 2019
.Dd February 6, 2020
.Dt VALE 4
.Os
.Sh NAME
@ -77,21 +77,13 @@ See
for details on the API.
.Ss LIMITS
.Nm
currently supports up to 4 switches, 16 ports per switch, with
1024 buffers per port.
These hard limits will be
changed to sysctl variables in future releases.
currently supports up to 8 switches, with 254 ports per switch.
.Sh SYSCTL VARIABLES
See
.Xr netmap 4
for a list of sysctl variables that affect
.Nm
uses the following sysctl variables to control operation:
.Bl -tag -width dev.netmap.verbose
.It dev.netmap.bridge_batch
The maximum number of packets processed internally
in each iteration.
Defaults to 1024, use lower values to trade latency
with throughput.
.It dev.netmap.verbose
Set to non-zero values to enable in-kernel diagnostics.
bridges.
.El
.Sh EXAMPLES
Create one switch, with a traffic generator connected to one

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@ -1591,7 +1591,6 @@ int netmap_adapter_put(struct netmap_adapter *na);
#define NETMAP_BUF_BASE(_na) ((_na)->na_lut.lut[0].vaddr)
#define NETMAP_BUF_SIZE(_na) ((_na)->na_lut.objsize)
extern int netmap_no_pendintr;
extern int netmap_mitigate;
extern int netmap_verbose;
#ifdef CONFIG_NETMAP_DEBUG
extern int netmap_debug; /* for debugging */
@ -1613,7 +1612,6 @@ enum { /* debug flags */
};
extern int netmap_txsync_retry;
extern int netmap_flags;
extern int netmap_generic_hwcsum;
extern int netmap_generic_mit;
extern int netmap_generic_ringsize;