command whenever Tx completion interrupt is raised. The Tx poll
bit is cleared when all packets waiting to be transferred have been
processed. This means the second Tx poll command can be silently
ignored as the Tx poll bit could be still active while processing
of previous Tx poll command is in progress.
To address the issue re(4) used to invoke the Tx poll command in Tx
completion handler whenever it detects there are pending packets in
TxQ. However that still does not seem to completely eliminate
watchdog timeouts seen on RealTek PCIe controllers. To fix the
issue kick Tx poll command only after Tx completion interrupt is
raised as this would indicate Tx is now idle state such that it can
accept new Tx poll command again. While here apply this workaround
for PCIe based controllers as other controllers does not seem to
have this limitation.
Tested by: Victor Balada Diaz < victor <> bsdes DOT net >
out of sleep mode prior to accessing to PHY. This should fix device
attach failure seen on these controllers. Also enable the sleep
mode when device is put into sleep state.
PR: kern/123123, kern/123053
Waiting for 1ms for each GMII register access looks overkill and it
may also decrease overall performance of driver because re(4)
invokes mii_tick for every hz.
Tested by: rpaulo
established a valid link or not. In miibus_statchg handler add a
check for established link is valid one for the controller(e.g.
1000baseT is not a valid link for fastethernet controllers.)
o Added a flag RE_FLAG_FASTETHER to mark fastethernet controllers.
o Added additional check to know whether we've really encountered
watchdog timeouts or missed Tx completion interrupts. This change
may help to track down the cause of watchdog timeouts.
o In interrupt handler, removed a check for link state change
interrupt. Not all controllers have the bit and re(4) did not
rely on the event for a long time. In addition, re(4) didn't
request the interrupt in RL_IMR register.
Tested by: rpaulo
reading from EEPROM doesn't seem to work on these controllers.
Reported by: Milan Obuch ( freebsd-net at dino dot sk )
Tested by: Milan Obuch ( freebsd-net at dino dot sk )
watchdog timeout issues and the root cause seems to stem from
silicon bug of controller. Personally I couldn't reproduce it on
RTL8169 controller but it seems it's dependent on usage pattern.
For newer PCIe based controllers I have no TSO complaints but
turning off TSO would be more safe. Users who are sure that
their controller works with TSO can still reenable the TSO with
ifconfig(8).
Reported by: Oliver Lehmann (lehmann at ans-netz dot de), Eugene Butusov (ebutusov at gmail dot com)
11bits. This limits the maximum interface MTU size in TSO case
as upper stack should not generate TCP segments with MSS greater
than the limit. Armed with this information, disable TSO if
interface MTU is greater than the limit.
generation of RTL810x PCIe fast ethernet controller. Note, Tx/Rx
descriptor format is different from that of first generation of
RTL8101E series. Jumbo frame is not supported for RTL810x
family.
Tested by: NAGATA Shinya ( maya AT negeta DOT com )
ATM Tx/Rx checksum offload is supported but TSO and jumbo frame is
not yet supported. Because these newer controllers use different
descriptor formats, a flag RL_FLAG_DESCV2 flag was introduced to
handle that case in Tx/Rx handler. Also newer controllers seems to
require to not touch 'enable Tx/Rx bit' in RL_CPLUS_CMD register
so don't blindly try to set that bits.
Note, it seems that there is still power-saving related issue where
driver fails to attach PHY. Rebooting seems to fix that issue but
number of required reboots varys.
Many thanks to users that helped during developement. I really
appreciate their patient and test/feedbacks.
a dedicated flag that represents controller capabilities/events.
This will simplify many part of code that requires different
workaround for each controller revisions and will enhance
readability.
While I'm here move PHY wakeup code up before mii_phy_probe() which
seems to help to wake PHY in some cases.
RL_TXCFG register to identify a device in device probe. Reflect the
fact by modifing device description with general ethernet
controller family.
Note, rl_basetype in struct rl_type is not used and the more
detailed information is provided with rl_hwrev structure.
clearing MSI enable bit for MSI capable hardwares resulted in Tx
problems. MSI enable bit is set only when MSI is requested from
user.
Tested by: remko
offload bugs by manual padding for short IP/UDP frames. Unfortunately
it seems that these workaround does not work reliably on newer PCIe
variants of RealTek chips.
To workaround the hardware bug, always pad short frames if Tx IP
checksum offload is requested. It seems that the hardware has a
bug in IP checksum offload handling. NetBSD manually pads short
frames only when the length of IP frame is less than 28 bytes but I
chose 60 bytes to safety. Also unconditionally set IP checksum
offload bit in Tx descriptor if any TCP or UDP checksum offload is
requested. This is the same way as Linux does but it's not
mentioned in data sheet.
Obtained from: NetBSD
Tested by: remko, danger
multi-descriptor transmission attempt. Datasheet said nothing about
this requirements. This should fix a long-standing VLAN hardware
tagging issues with re(4).
Reported by: Giulio Ferro ( auryn AT zirakzigil DOT org )
Tested by: Giulio Ferro ( auryn AT zirakzigil DOT org )
o Increased number of Rx/Tx descriptors to 256 for 8169 GigEs
because it's hard to push the hardware to the limit with default
64 descriptors.
TSO requires large number of Tx descriptors to pass a full sized
TCP segment(65535 bytes IP packet) to hardware. Previously it
consumed 32 Tx descriptors, assuming MCLBYTES DMA segment size,
to send the TCP segment which means re(4) couldn't queue more
than two full sized IP packets.
For 8139C+ it still uses 64 Rx/Tx descriptors due to its hardware
limitations. With this changes there are (very) small waste of
memory for 8139C+ users but I don't think it would affect 8139C+
users for most cases.
o Various bus_dma(9) fixes.
- The hardware supports DAC so allow 64bit DMA operations.
- Removed BUS_DMA_ALLOC_NOW flag.
- Increased DMA segment size to 4096 from MCLBYTES because TSO
consumes too many descriptors with MCLBYTES DMA segment size.
- Tx/Rx side bus_dmamap_load_mbuf_sg(9) support. With these
changes the code is more readable than previous one and got a
(slightly) better performance as it doesn't need to pass/
decode arguments to/from callback function.
- Removed unnecessary callback function re_dmamap_desc() and
nuked rl_dmaload_arg structure which was used in the callback.
- Additional protection for DMA map load failure. In case of
failure reuse current map instead of returning a bogus DMA
map.
- Deferred DMA map unloading/sync operation for maximum
performance until we really need to load new DMA map. If we
happen to reuse current map(e.g. input error) there is no need
to sync/unload/load again.
- The number of allowable Tx DMA segments for a mbuf chains are
now 32 instead of magic nseg value. If the number of available
Tx descriptors are short enough to send highly fragmented mbuf
chains an optimized re_defrag() is called to collapse mbuf
chains which is supposed to be much faster than m_defrag(9).
re_defrag() was borrowed from ath(4).
- Separated Rx/Tx DMA tag from a common DMA tag such that Rx DMA
tag correctly uses DMA maps that were created with DMA alignment
restriction(8bytes alignments). Tx DMA tag does not have such
alignment limitation.
- Added additional sanity checks for DMA ring map load failure.
- Added additional spare Rx DMA map for graceful handling of Rx
DMA map load failure.
- Fixed misused bus_dmamap_sync(9) and added missing
bus_dmamap_sync(9) in re_encap()/re_txeof()/re_rxeof().
o Enabled TSO again as re(4) have reasonable number of Tx
descriptors.
o Don't touch DMA address of a Tx descriptor in re_txeof(). It's
not needed.
o Fix incorrect update of if_ierrors counter. For Rx buffer
shortage it should update if_qdrops as the buffer is reused.
o Added checks for unsupported H/W revisions and return ENXIO for
these hardwares. This is required to remove resource allocation
code in re_probe as other drivers do in device probe routine.
o Modified descriptor index manipulation macros as it's now possible
to have different number of descriptors for Rx/Tx.
o In re_start, to save a lock operation, use IFQ_DRV_IS_EMPTY before
trying to invoke IFQ_DRV_DEQUEUE. Also don't blindly call re_encap
since we already know the number of available Tx descriptors in
advance.
o Removed RL_TX_DESC_THLD which was used to reserve RL_TX_DESC_THLD
descriptors in Tx path. There is no such a limitation mentioned in
8139C+/8169/8110/8168/8101/8111 datasheet and it seems to work ok
without reserving RL_TX_DESC_THLD descriptors.
o Fix a comment for RL_GTXSTART. The register is 8bits register.
o Added comments for 8169/8139C+ hardware restrictions on descriptors.
o Removed forward declaration for "struct rl_softc", it's not needed.
o Added a new structure rl_txdesc for Tx descriptor managements and
a structure rl_rxdesc for Rx descriptor managements.
o Removed unused member variable rl_intlock in driver softc. There are
still several unused member variables which are supposed to be used
to access hardware statistics counters. But it seems that accessing
hardware counters were not implemented yet.
as multicast/broadcast frames. Previously re(4) ignored multicast
frames in promiscuous mode. The RTL8169 datasheet was not clear
how it handles multicast frames in promiscuous mode.
PR: kern/118572
MFC after: 3 days
Ethernet Controller. Multicast filtering wasn't tested and needs more
expore. While I'm here change complex if statements with switch
statement which would improve readability.
Reported by: Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri < wearabnet AT yahoo DOT ca >
Tested by: Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri < wearabnet AT yahoo DOT ca >
