I/OAT is also referred to as Crystal Beach DMA and is a Platform Storage
Extension (PSE) on some Intel server platforms.
This driver currently supports DMA descriptors only and is part of a
larger effort to upstream an interconnect between multiple systems using
the Non-Transparent Bridge (NTB) PSE.
For now, this driver is only built on AMD64 platforms. It may be ported
to work on i386 later, if that is desired. The hardware is exclusive to
x86.
Further documentation on ioat(4), including API documentation and usage,
can be found in the new manual page.
Bring in a test tool, ioatcontrol(8), in tools/tools/ioat. The test
tool is not hooked up to the build and is not intended for end users.
Submitted by: jimharris, Carl Delsey <carl.r.delsey@intel.com>
Reviewed by: jimharris (reviewed my changes)
Approved by: markj (mentor)
Relnotes: yes
Sponsored by: Intel
Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon Storage Division
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D3456
Provide and document the RANDOM_ENABLE_UMA option.
Change RANDOM_FAST to RANDOM_UMA to clarify the harvesting.
Remove RANDOM_DEBUG option, replace with SDT probes. These will be of
use to folks measuring the harvesting effect when deciding whether to
use RANDOM_ENABLE_UMA.
Requested by: scottl and others.
Approved by: so (/dev/random blanket)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D3197
CoDel is a parameterless queue discipline that handles variable bandwidth
and RTT.
It can be used as the single queue discipline on an interface or as a sub
discipline of existing queue disciplines such as PRIQ, CBQ, HFSC, FAIRQ.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D3272
Reviewd by: rpaulo, gnn (previous version)
Obtained from: pfSense
Sponsored by: Rubicon Communications (Netgate)
This driver allows read the software reset switch state and control the
status LEDs.
The GPIO pins have their direction (input/output) locked down to prevent
possible short circuits.
Note that most people get a reset button that is a hardware reset. The
software reset button is available on boards from Netgate.
Sponsored by: Rubicon Communications (Netgate)
For most cases they are equivalent, but BINUTILS_BOOTSTRAP is a
BROKEN_OPTION on arm64 as the in-tree GNU binutils do not support it,
so we need a separate internal flag for ELF Tool Chain.
Reviewed by: andrew, brooks
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D3381
if desired.
Retire randomdev_none.c and introduce random_infra.c for resident
infrastructure. Completely stub out random(4) calls in the "without
DEV_RANDOM" case.
Add RANDOM_LOADABLE option to allow loadable Yarrow/Fortuna/LocallyWritten
algorithm. Add a skeleton "other" algorithm framework for folks
to add their own processing code. NIST, anyone?
Retire the RANDOM_DUMMY option.
Build modules for Yarrow, Fortuna and "other".
Use atomics for the live entropy rate-tracking.
Convert ints to bools for the 'seeded' logic.
Move _write() function from the algorithm-specific areas to randomdev.c
Get rid of reseed() function - it is unused.
Tidy up the opt_*.h includes.
Update documentation for random(4) modules.
Fix test program (reviewers, please leave this).
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D3354
Reviewed by: wblock,delphij,jmg,bjk
Approved by: so (/dev/random blanket)
- Add
nvlist_{add,get,take,move,exists,free}_{number,bool,string,nvlist,
descriptor} functions.
- Add support for (un)packing arrays.
- Add the nvl_array_next field to the nvlist structure.
If an array is added by the nvlist_{move,add}_nvlist_array function
this field will contains next element in the array.
- Add the nitems field to the nvpair and nvpair_header structure.
This field contains number of elements in the array.
- Add special flag (NV_FLAG_IN_ARRAY) which is set if nvlist is a part of
an array.
- Add special type (NV_TYPE_NVLIST_ARRAY_NEXT).This type is used only
on packing/unpacking.
- Add new API for traversing arrays (nvlist_get_array_next).
- Add the nvlist_get_pararr function which combines the
nvlist_get_array_next and nvlist_get_parent functions. If nvlist is in
the array it will return next element from array. If nvlist is last
element in array or it isn't in array it will return his
container (parent). This function should simplify traveling over nvlist.
- Add tests for new features.
- Add documentation for new functions.
- Add my copyright.
- Regenerate the sys/cddl/compat/opensolaris/sys/nvpair.h file.
PR: 191083
Reviewed by: allanjude (doc)
Approved by: pjd (mentor)
As the name indicates, these are flags to pass to nm(1). The newer
binutils have a plugin mechanism so, to build something with LLVM's
LTO, we need to pass flags to nm(1). This commit also extends
lorder(1) to pass NMFLAGS to nm(1).
operation as a write barrier. That description has never been correct,
and it has caused confusion. An acquire operation orders writes as well
as reads, and a release operation orders reads as well as writes.
Also, explicitly say that a thread doesn't see its own accesses being
reordered. The reordering of a thread's accesses is only (potentially)
visible to another thread. Thus, memory barriers need only be used to
control the ordering of accesses between threads, not within a thread.
Reviewed by: bde, kib
Discussed with: jhb
MFC after: 1 week
with higher quality registers (presumably in a module that has just been
loaded), do not undo the user's choice by switching to the new timecounter.
Document that behavior, and also the fact that there is no way to unregister
a timecounter (and thus no way to unload a module containing one).
eliminating the need to build a custom kernel to use the CTS signal.
The historical UART_PPS_ON_CTS kernel option is still honored, but now it
can be overridden at runtime using a tunable to configure all uart devices
(hw.uart.pps_mode) or specific devices (dev.uart.#.pps_mode). The per-
device config is both a tunable and a writable sysctl.
This syncs the PPS capabilities of uart(4) with the enhancements recently
recently added to ucom(4) for capturing from USB serial devices.
Relnotes: yes
multiple processors. In particular, clearly state that the operations
are always atomic when they are applied to the default memory type
that is used by the kernel (and applications).
Reviewed by: kib, jhb (an earlier version)
MFC after: 1 week
There are still several bugs, but I've been using it for a while now.
Thanks to all the testers and to Adrian for his help with this
driver.
This driver isn't connected to the build yet, but it will be soon.
There's no MFC planned because the driver isn't very stable yet.
Reviewed by: adrian
Obtained from: https://github.com/rpaulo/iwm
Tested by: adrian, gjb, dumbbell (others that I forgot).
Relnotes: yes
Clang emits SSE instructions on amd64 in the common path of
pthread_mutex_unlock. If the thread does not otherwise use SSE,
this usage incurs a context-switch of the FPU/SSE state, which
reduces the performance of multiple real-world applications by a
non-trivial amount (3-5% in one application).
Instead of this change, I experimented with eagerly switching the
FPU state at context-switch time. This did not help. Most of the
cost seems to be in the read/write of memory--as kib@ stated--and
not in the #NM handling. I tested on machines with and without
XSAVEOPT.
One counter-argument to this change is that most applications already
use SIMD, and the number of applications and amount of SIMD usage
are only increasing. This is absolutely true. I agree that--in
general and in principle--this change is in the wrong direction.
However, there are applications that do not use enough SSE to offset
the extra context-switch cost. SSE does not provide a clear benefit
in the current libthr code with the current compiler, but it does
provide a clear loss in some cases. Therefore, disabling SSE in
libthr is a non-loss for most, and a gain for some.
I refrained from disabling SSE in libc--as was suggested--because
I can't make the above argument for libc. It provides a wide variety
of code; each case should be analyzed separately.
https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2015-March/055193.html
Suggestions from: dim, jmg, rpaulo
Approved by: kib (mentor)
MFC after: 2 weeks
Sponsored by: Dell Inc.
