the separate ath0 TX taskq.
Whilst here, make sure that the TX software scheduler is also
running out of the TX task, rather than the ath0 taskqueue.
Make sure that the tx taskqueue is blocked/unblocked as necessary.
This allows for a little more parallelism on multi-core machines,
as well as (eventually) supporting a higher task priority for TX
tasks, allowing said TX task to preempt an already running RX or
TX completion task.
Tested:
* AR5416, AR9280 hostap and STA modes
- Make bge_lookup_{rev,vendor}() static.
- Factor out chip identification rather than duplicating the code.
- Sanitize bge_probe() a bit (don't hardcode buffer sizes, allow
bge_lookup_vendor() to return NULL so the excessive panic() three
can be removed there, etc.) and return BUS_PROBE_DEFAULT rather than
hardcoding 0.
- According to the Linux tg3 driver, BCM57791 and BCM57795 aren't
capable of Gigabit Ethernet.
- Check the return value of taskqueue_start_threads().
- At least the Saturn chips of 501-6738 cards need a delay after freezing
the external GMII pins before the internal PHY is accessible again. So
wait a bit after (un)freezing these. Also don't touch the other bits of
that configuration register. [1]
- Take advantage of nitems().
Reported and tested by: Paul Keusemann [1]
MFC after: 3 days
By setting dev.netmap.fwd=1 (or enabling the feature with a per-ring flag),
packets are forwarded between the NIC and the host stack unless the
netmap client clears the NS_FORWARD flag on the individual descriptors.
This feature greatly simplifies applications where some traffic
(think of ARP, control traffic, ssh sessions...) must be processed
by the host stack, whereas the bulk is handled by the netmap process
which simply (un)marks packets that should not be forwarded.
The default is chosen so that now a netmap receiver operates
in a mode very similar to bpf.
Of course there is no free lunch: traffic to/from the host stack
still operates at OS speed (or less, as there is one extra copy in
one direction).
HOWEVER, since traffic goes to the user process before being
reinjected, and reinjection occurs in a user context, you get some
form of livelock protection for free.
Add a missing 0 to the mask for byte0 of C_SIZE.
The previous mask (0xc) worked except that the last 0-1536K of the disk
could not be accessed since we were shifting the (wrong) bits we did
mask off the right edge.
generating binary diffs.
- Constify a few strings used in the driver.
- Style changes to make the driver compile with default clang settings.
Approved by: HighPoint Technologies
MFC after: 3 days
This is easily possible now that the TX is protected by a single
lock, rather than a per-TXQ (and thus per-TID) lock.
Only set CLRDMASK if none of the destinations are filtered.
This likely will need some tuning when it comes time to do UASPD/PS-POLL
TX, however at that point it should be manually set anyway.
Tested:
* AR9280, STA mode
TODO:
* More thorough testing in AP mode
* test other chipsets, just to be safe/sure.
'bhyve' was developed by grehan@ and myself at NetApp (thanks!).
Special thanks to Peter Snyder, Joe Caradonna and Michael Dexter for their
support and encouragement.
Obtained from: NetApp
Make umass return an error code if SCSI sense retrieval request
has failed. Make sure scsi_error_action honors SF_NO_RETRY and
SF_NO_RECOVERY in all cases, even if it cannot parse sense bytes.
Reviewed by: hselasky (umass), scottl (cam)
two upcoming features:
semi-transparent mode:
when a device is opened in this mode, the
user program will be able to mark slots that must be forwarded
to the "other" side (i.e. from NIC to host stack, or viceversa),
and the forwarding will occur automatically at the next netmap syscall.
This saves the need to open another file descriptor and do
the forwarding manually.
direct-forwarding mode:
when operating with a VALE port, the user can specify in the slot
the actual destination port, overriding the forwarding decision
made by a lookup of the destination MAC. This can be useful to
implement packet dispatchers.
No API changes will be introduced.
No new functionality in this patch yet.
chip hangs.
* Always do a reset in ath_bmiss_proc(), regardless of whether the
hardware is "hung" or not. Specifically, for spectral scan, there's
likely a whole bunch of potential hangs that we don't (yet) recognise
in the HAL. So to avoid staying RX deaf persisting until the station
disassociates, just do a no-loss reset.
* Set sc_beacons=1 in STA mode. During a reset, the beacon programming
isn't done. (It's likely I need to set sc_syncbeacons during a hang
reset, but I digress.) Thus after a reset, there's no beacon timer
programming to send a BMISS interrupt if beacons aren't heard ..
thus if the AP disappears, you won't get notified and you'll have to
reset your interface.
This hasn't yet fixed all of the hangs that I've seen when debugging
spectral scan, but it's certainly reduced the hang frequency and it
should improve general STA stability in very noisy environments.
Tested:
* AR9280, STA mode, spectral scan off/on
PR: kern/175227
when an interface is going down.
Right now it's quite possible (but very unlikely!) that ath_reset()
or similar is called, leading to a beacon config call, in parallel with
the last VAP being destroyed.
This likely should be fixed by making sure the bmiss/bstuck/watchdog
taskqueues are canceled whenever the last VAP is destroyed.
serial devices (such as printer ports). This allows ppc devices attached
to puc to correctly setup an interrupt handler and work.
Tested by: Andre Albsmeier Andre.Albsmeier@siemens.com
MFC after: 1 week
if_start().
This removes the overlapping data path TX from occuring, which
solves quite a number of the potential TX queue races in ath(4).
It doesn't fix the net80211 layer TX queue races and it doesn't
fix the raw TX path yet, but it's an important step towards this.
This hasn't dropped the TX performance in my testing; primarily
because now the TX path can quickly queue frames and continue
along processing.
This involves a few rather deep changes:
* Use the ath_buf as a queue placeholder for now, as we need to be
able to support queuing a list of mbufs (ie, when transmitting
fragments) and m_nextpkt can't be used here (because it's what is
joining the fragments together)
* if_transmit() now simply allocates the ath_buf and queues it to
a driver TX staging queue.
* TX is now moved into a taskqueue function.
* The TX taskqueue function now dequeues and transmits frames.
* Fragments are handled correctly here - as the current API passes
the fragment list as one mbuf list (joined with m_nextpkt) through
to the driver if_transmit().
* For the couple of places where ath_start() may be called (mostly
from net80211 when starting the VAP up again), just reimplement
it using the new enqueue and taskqueue methods.
What I don't like (about this work and the TX code in general):
* I'm using the same lock for the staging TX queue management and the
actual TX. This isn't required; I'm just being slack.
* I haven't yet moved TX to a separate taskqueue (but the taskqueue is
created); it's easy enough to do this later if necessary. I just need
to make sure it's a higher priority queue, so TX has the same
behaviour as it used to (where it would preempt existing RX..)
* I need to re-review the TX path a little more and make sure that
ieee80211_node_*() functions aren't called within the TX lock.
When queueing, I should just push failed frames into a queue and
when I'm wrapping up the TX code, unlock the TX lock and
call ieee80211_node_free() on each.
* It would be nice if I could hold the TX lock for the entire
TX and TX completion, rather than this release/re-acquire behaviour.
But that requires that I shuffle around the TX completion code
to handle actual ath_buf free and net80211 callback/free outside
of the TX lock. That's one of my next projects.
* the ic_raw_xmit() path doesn't use this yet - so it still has
sequencing problems with parallel, overlapping calls to the
data path. I'll fix this later.
Tested:
* Hostap - AR9280, AR9220
* STA - AR5212, AR9280, AR5416
CISS_MAX_LOGICAL to 107
Submitter wanted to increase the number of logical disks supported by ciss(4)
by simply raising the CISS_MAX_LOGICAL value even higher. Instead, consult
the documentation for the raid controller (OPENCISS) and poke the controller
bits to ask it for how many logical/physical disks it can handle.
Revert svn R242089 that raised CISS_MAX_LOGICAL to 64 for all controllers.
For older controllers that don't support this mechanism, fallback to the old
value of 16 logical disks. Tested on P420, P410, P400 and 6i model ciss(4)
controllers.
This should will be MFC'd back to stable/9 stable/8 and stable/7 after the MFC
period.
PR: kern/151564
Reviewed by: scottl@freebsd.org
MFC after: 2 weeks
This is the Compressed Local IPv6 table on the chip. To save space, the
chip uses an index into this table instead of a full IPv6 address in
some of its hardware data structures.
For now the driver fills this table with all the local IPv6 addresses
that it sees at the time the table is initialized. I'll improve this
later so that the table is updated whenever new IPv6 addresses are
configured or existing ones deleted.
MFC after: 1 week
- Teach find_best_mtu_idx() to deal with IPv6 endpoints.
- Install correct protosw in offloaded TCP/IPv6 sockets when DDP is
enabled.
- Move set_tcp_ddp_ulp_mode to t4_tom.c so that t4_tom.h can be included
without having to drag in t4_msg.h too. This was bothering the iWARP
driver for some reason.
MFC after: 1 week
- Add full support for IPv6 addresses.
- Read the size of the L2 table during attach. Do not assume that PCIe
physical function 4 of the card has all of the table to itself.
- Use FNV instead of Jenkins to hash L3 addresses and drop the private
copy of jhash.h from the driver.
MFC after: 1 week
Implement an FDT attachment for altera_avgen(4).
Portions of the changeset updating DTS and device.hints will be merged
separately.
Sponsored by: DARPA, AFRL
Rework altera_avgen(4) to cleanly(ish) separate nexus bus
attachment from the driver itself. This should allow us to
plug in an fdt attachment more easily.
Sponsored by: DARPA, AFRL
Start restructuring of altera_avgen(4) so that it can have an FDT
attachment -- this requires first properly breaking out the current
nexus attachment from the driver implementation.
Sponsored by: DARPA, AFRL
Write FDT attachment for the Terasic MTL (multitouch LCD) driver.
Exploit the fact that FDT allows multiple memory ranges to be
assigned to a device, giving us a cleaner description than
device.hints does.
Portions of this changeset that remove mtl from BERI device.hints and
add to DTS will be merged separately.
Sponsored by: DARPA, AFRL
