Most relevant features:
- netmap emulation on any NIC, even those without native netmap support.
On the ixgbe we have measured about 4Mpps/core/queue in this mode,
which is still a lot more than with sockets/bpf.
- seamless interconnection of VALE switch, NICs and host stack.
If you disable accelerations on your NIC (say em0)
ifconfig em0 -txcsum -txcsum
you can use the VALE switch to connect the NIC and the host stack:
vale-ctl -h valeXX:em0
allowing sharing the NIC with other netmap clients.
- THE USER API HAS SLIGHTLY CHANGED (head/cur/tail pointers
instead of pointers/count as before). This was unavoidable to support,
in the future, multiple threads operating on the same rings.
Netmap clients require very small source code changes to compile again.
On the plus side, the new API should be easier to understand
and the internals are a lot simpler.
The manual page has been updated extensively to reflect the current
features and give some examples.
This is the result of work of several people including Giuseppe Lettieri,
Vincenzo Maffione, Michio Honda and myself, and has been financially
supported by EU projects CHANGE and OPENLAB, from NetApp University
Research Fund, NEC, and of course the Universita` di Pisa.
requires process descriptors to work and having PROCDESC in GENERIC
seems not enough, especially that we hope to have more and more consumers
in the base.
MFC after: 3 days
Mention that the automatic mode switch from umass to u3g needed by some
devices does not work unless the driver is loaded before the device is
connected.
MFC after: 1 month
adapters. Both devices support Gigabit Ethernet and USB 2.0, and the AX88179
supports USB 3.0. The driver was written by kevlo@ and lwhsu@, with a few
bug fixes from me.
MFC after: 2 months
There is no reason to keep the two knobs separate: if tests are
enabled, the ATF libraries are required; and if tests are disabled,
the ATF libraries are not necessary. Keeping the two just serves
to complicate the build.
Reviewed by: freebsd-testing
Approved by: rpaulo (mentor)
This includes the following:
- use separate memory regions for VALE ports
- locking fixes
- some simplifications in the NIC-specific routines
- performance improvements for the VALE switch
- some new features in the pkt-gen test program
- documentation updates
There are small API changes that require programs to be recompiled
(NETMAP_API has been bumped so you will detect old binaries at runtime).
In particular:
- struct netmap_slot now is 16 bytes to support an extra pointer,
which may save one data copy when using VALE ports or VMs;
- the struct netmap_if has two extra fields;
MFC after: 3 days
The ng_create_one() and ng_mkpeer() functions in network.subr are
now not used anywhere, but I left them, since they can be useful
in future in netgraph scripting.
Submitted by: pluknet
it had no hooks. It has abused ifnet's if_afdata slot and actually
abused every subsystem it touched.
lagg(4) is a proper trunking solution at ifnet(9) layer.
ng_one2many(4) is a proper trunking solution in netgraph(4).
the cfi(4) driver. It remained in the tree longer than would be ideal
due to the time required to bring cfi(4) to feature parity.
Sponsored by: DARPA/AFRL
MFC after: 3 days
221804, 221805, 222004, 222006, 222055, 222820, 1135077, 1135118, 1136259
Add atse(4), a driver for the Altera Triple Speed Ethernet MegaCore.
The current driver support gigabit Ethernet speeds only and works with
the MegaCore only in the internal FIFO configuration in the soon to be
open sourced BERI CPU configuration.
Submitted by: bz
MFC after: 3 days
Sponsored by: DARPA/AFRL
Refactor of /dev/random device. Main points include:
* Userland seeding is no longer used. This auto-seeds at boot time
on PC/Desktop setups; this may need some tweeking and intelligence
from those folks setting up embedded boxes, but the work is believed
to be minimal.
* An entropy cache is written to /entropy (even during installation)
and the kernel uses this at next boot.
* An entropy file written to /boot/entropy can be loaded by loader(8)
* Hardware sources such as rdrand are fed into Yarrow, and are no
longer available raw.
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r256240 | des | 2013-10-09 21:14:16 +0100 (Wed, 09 Oct 2013) | 4 lines
Add a RANDOM_RWFILE option and hide the entropy cache code behind it.
Rename YARROW_RNG and FORTUNA_RNG to RANDOM_YARROW and RANDOM_FORTUNA.
Add the RANDOM_* options to LINT.
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r256239 | des | 2013-10-09 21:12:59 +0100 (Wed, 09 Oct 2013) | 2 lines
Define RANDOM_PURE_RNDTEST for rndtest(4).
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r256204 | des | 2013-10-09 18:51:38 +0100 (Wed, 09 Oct 2013) | 2 lines
staticize struct random_hardware_source
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r256203 | markm | 2013-10-09 18:50:36 +0100 (Wed, 09 Oct 2013) | 2 lines
Wrap some policy-rich code in 'if NOTYET' until we can thresh out
what it really needs to do.
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r256184 | des | 2013-10-09 10:13:12 +0100 (Wed, 09 Oct 2013) | 2 lines
Re-add /dev/urandom for compatibility purposes.
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r256182 | des | 2013-10-09 10:11:14 +0100 (Wed, 09 Oct 2013) | 3 lines
Add missing include guards and move the existing ones out of the
implementation namespace.
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r256168 | markm | 2013-10-08 23:14:07 +0100 (Tue, 08 Oct 2013) | 10 lines
Fix some just-noticed problems:
o Allow this to work with "nodevice random" by fixing where the
MALLOC pool is defined.
o Fix the explicit reseed code. This was correct as submitted, but
in the project branch doesn't need to set the "seeded" bit as this
is done correctly in the "unblock" function.
o Remove some debug ifdeffing.
o Adjust comments.
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r256159 | markm | 2013-10-08 19:48:11 +0100 (Tue, 08 Oct 2013) | 6 lines
Time to eat crow for me.
I replaced the sx_* locks that Arthur used with regular mutexes;
this turned out the be the wrong thing to do as the locks need to
be sleepable. Revert this folly.
# Submitted by: Arthur Mesh <arthurmesh@gmail.com> (In original diff)
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r256138 | des | 2013-10-08 12:05:26 +0100 (Tue, 08 Oct 2013) | 10 lines
Add YARROW_RNG and FORTUNA_RNG to sys/conf/options.
Add a SYSINIT that forces a reseed during proc0 setup, which happens
fairly late in the boot process.
Add a RANDOM_DEBUG option which enables some debugging printf()s.
Add a new RANDOM_ATTACH entropy source which harvests entropy from the
get_cyclecount() delta across each call to a device attach method.
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r256135 | markm | 2013-10-08 07:54:52 +0100 (Tue, 08 Oct 2013) | 8 lines
Debugging. My attempt at EVENTHANDLER(multiuser) was a failure; use
EVENTHANDLER(mountroot) instead.
This means we can't count on /var being present, so something will
need to be done about harvesting /var/db/entropy/... .
Some policy now needs to be sorted out, and a pre-sync cache needs
to be written, but apart from that we are now ready to go.
Over to review.
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r256094 | markm | 2013-10-06 23:45:02 +0100 (Sun, 06 Oct 2013) | 8 lines
Snapshot.
Looking pretty good; this mostly works now. New code includes:
* Read cached entropy at startup, both from files and from loader(8)
preloaded entropy. Failures are soft, but announced. Untested.
* Use EVENTHANDLER to do above just before we go multiuser. Untested.
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r256088 | markm | 2013-10-06 14:01:42 +0100 (Sun, 06 Oct 2013) | 2 lines
Fix up the man page for random(4). This mainly removes no-longer-relevant
details about HW RNGs, reseeding explicitly and user-supplied
entropy.
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r256087 | markm | 2013-10-06 13:43:42 +0100 (Sun, 06 Oct 2013) | 6 lines
As userland writing to /dev/random is no more, remove the "better
than nothing" bootstrap mode.
Add SWI harvesting to the mix.
My box seeds Yarrow by itself in a few seconds! YMMV; more to follow.
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r256086 | markm | 2013-10-06 13:40:32 +0100 (Sun, 06 Oct 2013) | 11 lines
Debug run. This now works, except that the "live" sources haven't
been tested. With all sources turned on, this unlocks itself in
a couple of seconds! That is no my box, and there is no guarantee
that this will be the case everywhere.
* Cut debug prints.
* Use the same locks/mutexes all the way through.
* Be a tad more conservative about entropy estimates.
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r256084 | markm | 2013-10-06 13:35:29 +0100 (Sun, 06 Oct 2013) | 5 lines
Don't use the "real" assembler mnemonics; older compilers may not
understand them (like when building CURRENT on 9.x).
# Submitted by: Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>
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r256081 | markm | 2013-10-06 10:55:28 +0100 (Sun, 06 Oct 2013) | 12 lines
SNAPSHOT.
Simplify the malloc pools; We only need one for this device.
Simplify the harvest queue.
Marginally improve the entropy pool hashing, making it a bit faster
in the process.
Connect up the hardware "live" source harvesting. This is simplistic
for now, and will need to be made rate-adaptive.
All of the above passes a compile test but needs to be debugged.
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r256042 | markm | 2013-10-04 07:55:06 +0100 (Fri, 04 Oct 2013) | 25 lines
Snapshot. This passes the build test, but has not yet been finished or debugged.
Contains:
* Refactor the hardware RNG CPU instruction sources to feed into
the software mixer. This is unfinished. The actual harvesting needs
to be sorted out. Modified by me (see below).
* Remove 'frac' parameter from random_harvest(). This was never
used and adds extra code for no good reason.
* Remove device write entropy harvesting. This provided a weak
attack vector, was not very good at bootstrapping the device. To
follow will be a replacement explicit reseed knob.
* Separate out all the RANDOM_PURE sources into separate harvest
entities. This adds some secuity in the case where more than one
is present.
* Review all the code and fix anything obviously messy or inconsistent.
Address som review concerns while I'm here, like rename the pseudo-rng
to 'dummy'.
# Submitted by: Arthur Mesh <arthurmesh@gmail.com> (the first item)
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r255319 | markm | 2013-09-06 18:51:52 +0100 (Fri, 06 Sep 2013) | 4 lines
Yarrow wants entropy estimations to be conservative; the usual idea
is that if you are certain you have N bits of entropy, you declare
N/2.
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r255075 | markm | 2013-08-30 18:47:53 +0100 (Fri, 30 Aug 2013) | 4 lines
Remove short-lived idea; thread to harvest (eg) RDRAND enropy into the
usual harvest queues. It was a nifty idea, but too heavyweight.
# Submitted by: Arthur Mesh <arthurmesh@gmail.com>
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r255071 | markm | 2013-08-30 12:42:57 +0100 (Fri, 30 Aug 2013) | 4 lines
Separate out the Software RNG entropy harvesting queue and thread
into its own files.
# Submitted by: Arthur Mesh <arthurmesh@gmail.com>
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r254934 | markm | 2013-08-26 20:07:03 +0100 (Mon, 26 Aug 2013) | 2 lines
Remove the short-lived namei experiment.
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r254928 | markm | 2013-08-26 19:35:21 +0100 (Mon, 26 Aug 2013) | 2 lines
Snapshot; Do some running repairs on entropy harvesting. More needs
to follow.
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r254927 | markm | 2013-08-26 19:29:51 +0100 (Mon, 26 Aug 2013) | 15 lines
Snapshot of current work;
1) Clean up namespace; only use "Yarrow" where it is Yarrow-specific
or close enough to the Yarrow algorithm. For the rest use a neutral
name.
2) Tidy up headers; put private stuff in private places. More could
be done here.
3) Streamline the hashing/encryption; no need for a 256-bit counter;
128 bits will last for long enough.
There are bits of debug code lying around; these will be removed
at a later stage.
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r254784 | markm | 2013-08-24 14:54:56 +0100 (Sat, 24 Aug 2013) | 39 lines
1) example (partially humorous random_adaptor, that I call "EXAMPLE")
* It's not meant to be used in a real system, it's there to show how
the basics of how to create interfaces for random_adaptors. Perhaps
it should belong in a manual page
2) Move probe.c's functionality in to random_adaptors.c
* rename random_ident_hardware() to random_adaptor_choose()
3) Introduce a new way to choose (or select) random_adaptors via tunable
"rngs_want" It's a list of comma separated names of adaptors, ordered
by preferences. I.e.:
rngs_want="yarrow,rdrand"
Such setting would cause yarrow to be preferred to rdrand. If neither of
them are available (or registered), then system will default to
something reasonable (currently yarrow). If yarrow is not present, then
we fall back to the adaptor that's first on the list of registered
adaptors.
4) Introduce a way where RNGs can play a role of entropy source. This is
mostly useful for HW rngs.
The way I envision this is that every HW RNG will use this
functionality by default. Functionality to disable this is also present.
I have an example of how to use this in random_adaptor_example.c (see
modload event, and init function)
5) fix kern.random.adaptors from
kern.random.adaptors: yarrowpanicblock
to
kern.random.adaptors: yarrow,panic,block
6) add kern.random.active_adaptor to indicate currently selected
adaptor:
root@freebsd04:~ # sysctl kern.random.active_adaptor
kern.random.active_adaptor: yarrow
# Submitted by: Arthur Mesh <arthurmesh@gmail.com>
Submitted by: Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des@FreeBSD.org>, Arthur Mesh <arthurmesh@gmail.com>
Reviewed by: des@FreeBSD.org
Approved by: re (delphij)
Approved by: secteam (des,delphij)
