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ambrisko
c1476c6e0a Add mrsas(4) driver from LSI official support of newer MegaRAID SAS
cards.  LSI has been maintaining this driver outside of the FreeBSD
tree.  It overlaps support of ThunderBolt and Invader cards that mfi(4)
supports.  By default mfi(4) will attach to cards.  If the tunable:
	hw.mfi.mrsas_enable=1
is set then mfi(4) will not probe and attach to these newer cards and
allow mrsas(4) to attach.  So by default this driver will not effect
a FreeBSD system unless mfi(4) is removed from the kernel or the
tunable is enabled.

mrsas(4) attaches disks to the CAM layer so it depends on CAM and devices
show up as /dev/daX.  mfiutil(8) does not work with mrsas.  The FreeBSD
version of MegaCli and StorCli from LSI do work with mrsas.  It appears
that StorCli only works with mrsas.  MegaCli appears to work with mfi(4)
and mrsas(4).

It would be good to add mfiutil(4) support to mrsas, emulations modes,
kernel logging, device aliases to ease the transition between mfi(4)
and mrsas(4).

Style issues should be resolved by LSI when they get committers approved.
The plan is get this driver in FreeBSD 9.3 to improve HW support.

Thanks to LSI for developing, testing and working with FreeBSD to
make this driver co-exist in FreeBSD.  This improves the overall
support of MegaRAID SAS.

Submitted by:	Kashyap Desai <Kashyap.Desai@lsi.com>
Reviewed by:	scottl
MFC after:	3 days
Sponsored by:	LSI
2014-05-07 16:16:49 +00:00
se
4bd97a0b63 Fix buildkernel breakage, which was fall-out from the move of options to
src.opts.mk.
2014-05-06 11:12:56 +00:00
imp
2118f42afd Use src.opts.mk in preference to bsd.own.mk except where we need stuff
from the latter.
2014-05-06 04:22:01 +00:00
marius
ed48e9a0db Allow GEOM_VINUM to be statically compiled into the kernel.
Submitted by:	gleb
MFC after:	3 days
2014-05-02 23:23:18 +00:00
ken
8f3f80c382 Bring in the mpr(4) driver for LSI's MPT3 12Gb SAS controllers.
This is derived from the mps(4) driver, but it supports only the 12Gb
IT and IR hardware including the SAS 3004, SAS 3008 and SAS 3108.

Some notes about this driver:
 o The 12Gb hardware can do "FastPath" I/O, and that capability is included in
   this driver.

 o WarpDrive functionality has been removed, since it isn't supported in
   the 12Gb driver interface.

 o The Scatter/Gather list handling code is significantly different between
   the 6Gb and 12Gb hardware.  The 12Gb boards support IEEE Scatter/Gather
   lists.

Thanks to LSI for developing and testing this driver for FreeBSD.

share/man/man4/mpr.4:
	mpr(4) man page.

sys/dev/mpr/*:
	mpr(4) driver files.

sys/modules/Makefile,
sys/modules/mpr/Makefile:
	Add a module Makefile for the mpr(4) driver.

sys/conf/files:
	Add the mpr(4) driver.

sys/amd64/conf/GENERIC,
sys/i386/conf/GENERIC,
sys/mips/conf/OCTEON1,
sys/sparc64/conf/GENERIC:
	Add the mpr(4) driver to all config files that currently
	have the mps(4) driver.

sys/ia64/conf/GENERIC:
	Add the mps(4) and mpr(4) drivers to the ia64 GENERIC
	config file.

sys/i386/conf/XEN:
	Exclude the mpr module from building here.

Submitted by:	Steve McConnell <Stephen.McConnell@lsi.com>
MFC after:	3 days
Tested by:	Chris Reeves <chrisr@spectralogic.com>
Sponsored by:	LSI, Spectra Logic
Relnotes:	LSI 12Gb SAS driver mpr(4) added
2014-05-02 20:25:09 +00:00
brueffer
3bfe763ff9 Clean up more lindev(4) vestiges. 2014-05-02 11:09:01 +00:00
eadler
382c3dae47 lindev(4): finish the partial commit in r265212
lindev(4) was only used to provide /dev/full which is now a standard feature of
FreeBSD.  /dev/full was never linux-specific and provides a generally useful
feature.

Document this in UPDATING and bump __FreeBSD_version.  This will be documented
in the PH shortly.

Reported by:	jkim
2014-05-02 07:14:22 +00:00
imp
c4a1255f95 Allow FDT_DTS_FILE to be a list, either in the makedtb target, or in a
kernel config file. If you also want to have a static DTB compiled
into your kernel, however, it cannot be a list. We have no mechanism
in the kernel for picking one, so that doesn't make sense and will
result in a compile-time error.
2014-04-30 18:02:04 +00:00
kevlo
867becd902 Add preliminary support for the Realtek RTL8188EUS and RTL8188ETV chipsets.
Committed over the TP-LINK TL-WN725N v2 (RTL8188EUS) on amd64 with WPA.
2014-04-25 08:01:22 +00:00
sbruno
c5f634c8c7 Really, really, really only allow this option for amd64/i386 builds.
Submitted by:	imp@ and tinderbox
2014-04-09 18:44:54 +00:00
sbruno
a31581c714 Actually, since this is what I thought I was doing, only allow the
binmisc code to be build on amd64/i386 for the kernel.

Update NOTES with some indication of what this code is used for.

Pointed out by jhb@ ... thanks!

Submitted by:	jhb@
2014-04-08 21:39:51 +00:00
imp
efe0f3c8db Put proper ${} around variable expansion. This fixes the build on 9.2
with fmake (which complained). Not sure why bmake didn't complain though...
2014-04-08 20:10:57 +00:00
sbruno
168c6df708 Add Stacey Son's binary activation patches that allow remapping of
execution to a emumation program via parsing of ELF header information.

With this kernel module and userland tool, poudriere is able to build
ports packages via the QEMU userland tools (or another emulator program)
in a different architecture chroot, e.g. TARGET=mips TARGET_ARCH=mips

I'm not connecting this to GENERIC for obvious reasons, but this should
allow the kernel module to be built by default and enable the building
of the userland tool (which automatically loads the kernel module).

Submitted by:	sson@
Reviewed by:	jhb@
2014-04-08 20:10:22 +00:00
marcel
e76013f8c8 An all-or-nothing approach to labels isn't flexible enough. Embedded
systems need fine-grained control over what's in and what's out.
That's ideal. For now, separate GPT labels from the rest and allow
g_label to be built with just GPT labels.

Obtained from:	Juniper Networks, Inc.
2014-04-06 02:44:37 +00:00
ian
82709f9ad7 Change NO_EVENTTIMERS from an arm-specific to an MI option, so that it can
be used in MI code.

This is intended as a temporary measure to unbreak the build.  The real fix
is to write event timer drivers for legacy arm hardware, then get rid of
this option completely.  That's going to take a few days.
2014-04-02 19:51:29 +00:00
rstone
528e18a59f Add a method to get the PCI RID for a device.
Reviewed by:	kib
MFC after:	2 months
Sponsored by:	Sandvine Inc.
2014-04-01 15:47:24 +00:00
rstone
120bf54d08 Revert PCI RID changes.
My PCI RID changes somehow got intermixed with my PCI ARI patch when I
committed it.  I may have accidentally applied a patch to a non-clean
working tree.  Revert everything while I figure out what went wrong.

Pointy hat to: rstone
2014-04-01 15:06:03 +00:00
rstone
9a7903aa58 Add a method to get the PCI Routing ID for a device
Reviewed by:	kib
Sponsored by:	Sandvine, Inc
2014-04-01 14:49:25 +00:00
imp
c94d9639a8 Remove check for clang and expand the comment. Newer versions of gcc
generate dwarf4 by default as well, so always force dwarf2 when
generating debugging data. It is harmless on older versions of both
clang and gcc, but required on newer ones.
2014-04-01 14:24:20 +00:00
imp
99cc90ab28 Test MK_ARM_ABI rather than if WITHOUT_ARM_ABI is defined. 2014-04-01 14:24:03 +00:00
ray
ad03b5b28d Enable to build UEFI framebuffer driver for vt(4).
It can be enabled by "device vt_efifb" in kernel config.

Requested by:	emaste
Sponsored by:	The FreeBSD Foundation
2014-03-28 12:50:39 +00:00
trasz
427a2d21c4 Remove ctl_mem_pool.{c,h}.
Sponsored by:	The FreeBSD Foundation
2014-03-27 11:10:13 +00:00
imp
64cb2c82c7 Add a '*' to the M modifier string so we match any -gdwarf string (even
though it works w/o it for some reason, contrary to our reading of
make(1)). Also add a comment explaining things a bit better so there's
one less mystery that must be answered with svn blame.

Submitted by:	ian@
2014-03-25 22:32:13 +00:00
imp
bd031ca10c Rather than require a makeoptions DEBUG to get debug correct,
add it in kern.mk, but only if we're using clang. While this
option is supported by both clang and gcc, in the future there
may be changes to clang which change the defaults that require
a tweak to build our kernel such that other tools in our tree
will work. Set a good example by forcing -gdwarf-2 only for
clang builds, and only if the user hasn't specified another
dwarf level already. Update UPDATING to reflect the changed
state of affairs. This also keeps us from having to update
all the ARM kernels to add this, and also keeps us from
in the future having to update all the MIPS kernels and is
one less place the user will have to know to do something
special for clang and one less thing developers will need
to do when moving an architecture to clang.

Reviewed by:	ian@
MFC after:	1 week
2014-03-25 22:08:31 +00:00
marcel
2a451c287a Fix and improve exception tracing:
1.  Name the kernel option XTRACE instead of EXCEPTION_TRACING
2.  Put support functions in ia64/ia64/xtrace.c
3.  Make it work with SMP by giving each CPU its own buffer
4.  Save 16 key registers in the buffer for every exception
5.  In ia64_handle_intr() and trap() transfer the trace record
    to the KTR trace buffer using CTRx() and with some basic
    information for now
6.  Use a tunable to anble tracing and stop tracing as soon as
    we enter the debugger

Room for improvements:
1.  Transferring exception-relevant information to KTR
2.  Add a sysctl to enable/disable tracing
2014-03-18 23:51:34 +00:00
jmg
eab153cc9d replace the kernel's version w/ cperciva's implementation... In all
my tests, it is faster ~20%, even on an old IXP425 533MHz it is ~45%
faster...  This is partly due to loop unrolling, so the code size does
significantly increase...  I do plan on committing a version that
rolls up the loops again for smaller code size for embedded systems
where size is more important than absolute performance (it'll save ~6k
code)...

The kernel implementation is now shared w/ userland's libcrypt and
libmd...

We drop support for sha256 from sha2.c, so now sha2.c only contains
sha384 and sha512...

Reviewed by:	secteam@
2014-03-16 01:43:23 +00:00
rwatson
f411704afc Several years after initial development, merge prototype support for
linking NIC Receive Side Scaling (RSS) to the network stack's
connection-group implementation.  This prototype (and derived patches)
are in use at Juniper and several other FreeBSD-using companies, so
despite some reservations about its maturity, merge the patch to the
base tree so that it can be iteratively refined in collaboration rather
than maintained as a set of gradually diverging patch sets.

(1) Merge a software implementation of the Toeplitz hash specified in
    RSS implemented by David Malone.  This is used to allow suitable
    pcbgroup placement of connections before the first packet is
    received from the NIC.  Software hashing is generally avoided,
    however, due to high cost of the hash on general-purpose CPUs.

(2) In in_rss.c, maintain authoritative versions of RSS state intended
    to be pushed to each NIC, including keying material, hash
    algorithm/ configuration, and buckets.  Provide software-facing
    interfaces to hash 2- and 4-tuples for IPv4 and IPv6 using both
    the RSS standardised Toeplitz and a 'naive' variation with a hash
    efficient in software but with poor distribution properties.
    Implement rss_m2cpuid()to be used by netisr and other load
    balancing code to look up the CPU on which an mbuf should be
    processed.

(3) In the Ethernet link layer, allow netisr distribution using RSS as
    a source of policy as an alternative to source ordering; continue
    to default to direct dispatch (i.e., don't try and requeue packets
    for processing on the 'right' CPU if they arrive in a directly
    dispatchable context).

(4) Allow RSS to control tuning of connection groups in order to align
    groups with RSS buckets.  If a packet arrives on a protocol using
    connection groups, and contains a suitable hardware-generated
    hash, use that hash value to select the connection group for pcb
    lookup for both IPv4 and IPv6.  If no hardware-generated Toeplitz
    hash is available, we fall back on regular PCB lookup risking
    contention rather than pay the cost of Toeplitz in software --
    this is a less scalable but, at my last measurement, faster
    approach.  As core counts go up, we may want to revise this
    strategy despite CPU overhead.

Where device drivers suitably configure NICs, and connection groups /
RSS are enabled, this should avoid both lock and line contention during
connection lookup for TCP.  This commit does not modify any device
drivers to tune device RSS configuration to the global RSS
configuration; patches are in circulation to do this for at least
Chelsio T3 and Intel 1G/10G drivers.  Currently, the KPI for device
drivers is not particularly robust, nor aware of more advanced features
such as runtime reconfiguration/rebalancing.  This will hopefully prove
a useful starting point for refinement.

No MFC is scheduled as we will first want to nail down a more mature
and maintainable KPI/KBI for device drivers.

Sponsored by:   Juniper Networks (original work)
Sponsored by:   EMC/Isilon (patch update and merge)
2014-03-15 00:57:50 +00:00
glebius
80e85e32a5 Remove AppleTalk support.
AppleTalk was a network transport protocol for Apple Macintosh devices
in 80s and then 90s. Starting with Mac OS X in 2000 the AppleTalk was
a legacy protocol and primary networking protocol is TCP/IP. The last
Mac OS X release to support AppleTalk happened in 2009. The same year
routing equipment vendors (namely Cisco) end their support.

Thus, AppleTalk won't be supported in FreeBSD 11.0-RELEASE.
2014-03-14 06:29:43 +00:00
glebius
d494babace Remove IPX support.
IPX was a network transport protocol in Novell's NetWare network operating
system from late 80s and then 90s. The NetWare itself switched to TCP/IP
as default transport in 1998. Later, in this century the Novell Open
Enterprise Server became successor of Novell NetWare. The last release
that claimed to still support IPX was OES 2 in 2007. Routing equipment
vendors (e.g. Cisco) discontinued support for IPX in 2011.

Thus, IPX won't be supported in FreeBSD 11.0-RELEASE.
2014-03-14 02:58:48 +00:00
royger
66d3470d38 xen: add an apic_enumerator for PVH
On PVH there's no ACPI, so the CPU enumeration must be implemented
using Xen hypercalls.

Approved by: gibbs
Sponsored by: Citrix Systems R&D

x86/xen/pvcpu_enum.c:
 - Enumerate avaiable vCPUs on PVH by using the VCPUOP_is_up
   hypercall.
 - Set vcpu_id for PVH guests.

conf/files.amd64:
 - Include the PV CPU enumerator in the XENHVM build.
2014-03-11 10:25:08 +00:00
royger
467e743960 xen: implement an early timer for Xen PVH
When running as a PVH guest, there's no emulated i8254, so we need to
use the Xen PV timer as the early source for DELAY. This change allows
for different implementations of the early DELAY function and
implements a Xen variant for it.

Approved by: gibbs
Sponsored by: Citrix Systems R&D

dev/xen/timer/timer.c:
dev/xen/timer/timer.h:
 - Implement Xen early delay functions using the PV timer and declare
   them.

x86/include/init.h:
 - Add hooks for early clock source initialization and early delay
   functions.

i386/i386/machdep.c:
pc98/pc98/machdep.c:
amd64/amd64/machdep.c:
 - Set early delay hooks to use the i8254 on bare metal.
 - Use clock_init (that will in turn make use of init_ops) to
   initialize the early clock source.

amd64/include/clock.h:
i386/include/clock.h:
 - Declare i8254_delay and clock_init.

i386/xen/clock.c:
 - Rename DELAY to i8254_delay.

x86/isa/clock.c:
 - Introduce clock_init that will take care of initializing the early
   clock by making use of the init_ops hooks.
 - Move non ISA related delay functions to the newly introduced delay
   file.

x86/x86/delay.c:
 - Add moved delay related functions.
 - Implement generic DELAY function that will use the init_ops hooks.

x86/xen/pv.c:
 - Set PVH hooks for the early delay related functions in init_ops.

conf/files.amd64:
conf/files.i386:
conf/files.pc98:
 - Add delay.c to the kernel build.
2014-03-11 10:20:42 +00:00
royger
3c7c289c46 xen: add and enable Xen console for PVH guests
This adds and enables the PV console used on XEN kernels to
GENERIC/XENHVM kernels in order for it to be used on PVH.

Approved by: gibbs
Sponsored by: Citrix Systems R&D

dev/xen/console/console.c:
 - Define console_page.
 - Move xc_printf debug function from i386 XEN code to generic console
   code.
 - Rework xc_printf.
 - Use xen_initial_domain instead of open-coded checks for Dom0.
 - Gate the attach of the PV console to PV(H) guests.

dev/xen/console/xencons_ring.c:
 - Allow the PV Xen console to output earlier by directly signaling
   the event channel in start_info if the event channel is not yet
   initialized.
 - Use HYPERVISOR_start_info instead of xen_start_info.

i386/include/xen/xen-os.h:
 - Remove prototype for xc_printf since it's now declared in global
   xen-os.h

i386/xen/xen_machdep.c:
 - Remove previous version of xc_printf.
 - Remove definition of console_page (now it's defined in the console
   itself).
 - Fix some printf formatting errors.

x86/xen/pv.c:
 - Add some early boot debug messages using xc_printf.
 - Set console_page based on the value passed in start_info.

xen/xen-os.h:
 - Declare console_page and add prototype for xc_printf.
2014-03-11 10:09:23 +00:00
royger
5dd05db7ff xen: add PV/PVH kernel entry point
Add the PV/PVH entry point and the low level functions for PVH
early initialization.

Approved by: gibbs
Sponsored by: Citrix Systems R&D

amd64/amd64/genassym.c:
 - Add __FreeBSD_version define to assym.s so it can be used for the
   Xen notes.

amd64/amd64/locore.S:
 - Make bootstack global so it can be used from Xen kernel entry
   point.

amd64/amd64/xen-locore.S:
 - Add Xen notes to the kernel.
 - Add the Xen PV entry point, that is going to call hammer_time_xen.

amd64/include/asmacros.h:
 - Add ELFNOTE macros.

i386/xen/xen_machdep.c:
 - Define HYPERVISOR_start_info for the XEN i386 PV port, which is
   going to be used in some shared code between PV and PVH.

x86/xen/hvm.c:
 - Define HYPERVISOR_start_info for the PVH port.

x86/xen/pv.c:
 - Introduce hammer_time_xen which is going to perform early setup for
   Xen PVH:
    - Setup shared Xen variables start_info, shared_info and
      xen_store.
    - Set guest type.
    - Create initial page tables as FreeBSD expects to find them.
    - Call into native init function (hammer_time).

xen/xen-os.h:
 - Declare HYPERVISOR_start_info.

conf/files.amd64:
 - Add amd64/amd64/locore.S and x86/xen/pv.c to the list of files.
2014-03-11 10:07:01 +00:00
ian
18e32f9727 Move the exception vector table (so-called "page0" data) into exception.S
and eliminate vectors.S.  All low-level exception handling is now
consolidated into exception.S.

Along with moving the default FIQ handler, change it to disable FIQs
before returning.  An FIQ should never happen, but if it does, it's got
to be disabled as part of ignoring it.

In general, we have hand-wavy support for FIQs that probably hasn't been
used for 10 years and probably doesn't work (almost certainly doesn't
work for SMP because it only updates the vector on the current cpu).  This
change doesn't really make the overall situation any better or worse.
2014-03-10 19:36:26 +00:00
ian
ab495f6c9b Remove all traces of support for ARM chips prior to the arm9 series. We
never actually ran on these chips (other than using SA1 support in an
emulator to do the early porting to FreeBSD long long ago).  The clutter
and complexity of some of this code keeps getting in the way of other
maintenance, so it's time to go.
2014-03-09 21:12:31 +00:00
markj
4e7fa16cf6 Use a full path to the target for make rules which create symlinks @,
machine and ${MACHINE_CPUARCH}. Otherwise the presence of a file named
"x86" or "x86.c" in the make path can cause problems.

Submitted by:	lwhsu (original version)
MFC after:	1 month
2014-03-04 14:00:49 +00:00
jhb
d8c1179430 Include kbd(4) when vt(4) is enabled as on other platforms.
Reported by:	Anton Shterenlikht
2014-03-03 18:06:25 +00:00
imp
c7d2689646 Only try to build the static dtb when we're building a static dtb... 2014-02-28 22:06:19 +00:00
imp
7c37cf4f64 Integrate device-tree upstream files into the build process:
(1) Invoke cpp to bring in files via #include (although the old
    /include/ stuff is supported still).
(2) bring in files from either vendor tree or freebsd-custom files
    when building.
(3) move all dts* files from sys/boot/fdt/dts to
    sys/boot/fdt/dts/${MACHINE} as appropriate.
(4) encode all the magic to do the build in sys/tools/fdt/make_dtb.sh
    so that the different places in the tree use the exact same logic.
(5) switch back to gpl dtc by default. the bsdl one in the tree has
    significant issues not easily addressed by those unfamiliar with
    the code.
2014-02-28 18:29:09 +00:00
dim
b6b1de44ba Merge from head up to r262472. 2014-02-25 07:40:37 +00:00
adrian
14d0aacff0 Add initial AR8327 support.
This is (almost!) enough to actually probe, attach, configure a default
port group and do some basic work.  It's also totally hard-coded for
the Qualcomm Atheros DB120 board - it doesn't yet have any of the code
from OpenWRT which parses extra configuration data to know how to program
the switch.  The LED stuff is also missing.

But, it's enough to facilitate board, PHY, switch and VLAN bringup,
so I am committing it now.

Tested:

* Qualcomm Atheros DB120

Obtained from:	OpenWRT
2014-02-24 04:47:16 +00:00
dim
f05fef4a19 Similar to r262306 for boot1's Makefile, clang spells -mcmodel=medany as
-mcmodel=large, for now.  While here, disable -msoft-float for clang
since it is not supported, and add -fno-dwarf2-cfi-asm to stop it from
emitting .cfi directives, which GNU as does not support.
2014-02-23 17:25:53 +00:00
glebius
f62415c467 o Remove at compile time the HASH_ALL code, that was never
tested and is unfinished. However, I've tested my version,
  it works okay. As before it is unfinished: timeout aren't
  driven by TCP session state. To enable the HASH_ALL mode,
  one needs in kernel config:

	options FLOWTABLE_HASH_ALL

o Reduce the alignment on flentry to 64 bytes. Without
  the FLOWTABLE_HASH_ALL option, twice less memory would
  be consumed by flows.
o API to ip_output()/ip6_output() got even more thin: 1 liner.
o Remove unused unions. Simply use fle->f_key[].
o Merge all IPv4 code into flowtable_lookup_ipv4(), and do same
  flowtable_lookup_ipv6(). Stop copying data to on stack
  sockaddr structures, simply use key[] on stack.
o Move code from flowtable_lookup_common() that actually works
  on insertion into flowtable_insert().

Sponsored by:	Netflix
Sponsored by:	Nginx, Inc.
2014-02-17 11:50:56 +00:00
dim
a8b6bed223 Upgrade our copy of llvm/clang to 3.4 release. This version supports
all of the features in the current working draft of the upcoming C++
standard, provisionally named C++1y.

The code generator's performance is greatly increased, and the loop
auto-vectorizer is now enabled at -Os and -O2 in addition to -O3.  The
PowerPC backend has made several major improvements to code generation
quality and compile time, and the X86, SPARC, ARM32, Aarch64 and SystemZ
backends have all seen major feature work.

Release notes for llvm and clang can be found here:
<http://llvm.org/releases/3.4/docs/ReleaseNotes.html>
<http://llvm.org/releases/3.4/tools/clang/docs/ReleaseNotes.html>

MFC after:	1 month
2014-02-16 19:44:07 +00:00
brueffer
4c9c4234e2 Retire the nve(4) driver; nfe(4) has been the default driver for NVIDIA
nForce MCP adapters for a long time.

Yays:	jhb, remko, yongari
Nays:	none on the current and stable lists
2014-02-16 12:22:43 +00:00
luigi
51f5fa46d7 This new version of netmap brings you the following:
- 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
2014-02-15 04:53:04 +00:00
dim
122e2bdb6d Disable warning about unused static const variables for sys/pci/ncr.c.
MFC after:	3 days
2014-02-14 21:20:16 +00:00
dim
84f362793e In r260111, in sys/conf/files, I disabled warning about unused functions
for the wrong mcg.c, the one in ofed/drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx4.
Disable the warning for ofed/drivers/net/mlx4/mcg.c instead.

MFC after:	3 days
2014-02-14 21:06:12 +00:00
dim
1588d44e17 Similar to r260026, disable warning about unused functions for
ieee80211_adhoc.c, ieee80211_hostap.c and ieee80211_sta.c.

MFC after:	3 days
2014-02-14 20:11:06 +00:00
avg
84460fd88d provide fast versions of ffsl and flsl for i386; ffsll and flsll for amd64
Reviewed by:	jhb
MFC after:	10 days
X-MFC note:	consider thirdparty modules depending on these symbols
Sponsored by:	HybridCluster
2014-02-14 15:18:37 +00:00