- Try to unbreak what I broke by screwing with the tx queuing again.
I'm waiting for a few more people to test out this code and report back
before I move it into current. Hopefully it will be soon. Basically I
reverted to the old TX queuing strategy.
- Add experimental support for the 3c900B-FL (10mbps ST fiber). The card
should be detected properly and the 10baseFL mode supported, but again
I'm still waiting for word from a tester to see if this actually works.
It shouldn't affect the other cards though; all the differences are in
media selection.
- Set the TX start threshold register to get better performance.
- Increase the size of the RX and TX rings. UDP performance was pretty
bad because the TX ring was too small. Should be substantially better
now (I can saturate the link with either TCP or UDP now).
- Change some of the #defines to reflect proper 3Com ASIC names (boomerang,
cyclone, krakatoa, hurricane).
- Simplify and reorganize interrupt handler; ack all interrupts right
away and then process them. This avoids a potential race condition.
(Noted by Matt Dillon.)
- Reorganize the bridging code to eliminate using a goto to jump into
the middle of an if() {} clause. Sorry, that just made my brain itch.
- Use m_adj() in xl_rxeof().
- Make the payload alignment in xl_newbuf() the default (instead of
just conditionally defined for the alpha) to improve NFS performance
(avoids need for nfs_realign()).
3c900B-TPC (twisted pair and coax). Treated similarly to the
3c900B-COMBO, except no AUI port.
- Fix media selection so that it's possible to select the AUI and BNC
ports on the 3c905B-COMBO. This board is now fully supported.
- Change TX queueing strategy to hopefully be more efficient by avoiding
register accesses in xl_start(). Should provide small performance
improvement and a little better reliability.
(cut-down version of the "cyclone" for the small office/home office
"cheap bastard" market). Basically the same as a 3c905B but without
Wake-on-LAN, ROM socket, etc...
- Wait longer for the reset to complete in xl_attach() to try and avoid
'command never completed' warnings.
- Clean up a few odds and ends in xl_attach().
- Add PCI ID for the 3c905B-COMBO (a new card). Right now this is
treated as a 3c905B; I need to dig up one of these cards for testing
before I can make the AUI and BNC ports work.
- Add a hack to force reading the I/O address directly from the PCI
registers if pci_map_port() fails. I SHOULD NOT HAVE TO DO THIS:
SOMEBODY WITH MORE PCI CLUES THAN I SHOULD INVESTIGATE WHY THIS
HAPPENS.
sys/alpha/conf/GENERIC.
Note: the PNIC ignores the lower few bits of the RX buffer DMA address,
which means we have to add yet another kludge to make it happy. Since
we can't offset the packet data, we copy the first few bytes of the
received data into a separate mbuf with proper alignment. This puts
the IP header where it needs to be to prevent unaligned accesses.
Also modified the PNIC driver to use a non-interrupt driven TX
strategy. This improves performance somewhat on x86/SMP systems where
interrupt delivery doesn't seem to be as fast with an SMP kernel as
with a UP kernel.
Revert the transmission packet queueing strategy changes. Clearly I missed
something while debugging this, although I never encountered any problems
on my test machines.
Also make one other minor change: jack up the TX reclaim threshold for
3c90xB adapters in order to stave off 'transmission error: 82' errors.
Document the existence of the tx reclaim register (for inspecting the
current reclaim threshold) in register window 5 (if_xlreg.h).
agressive. With the old code, if a descriptor chain was already on its
way to the chip, xl_start() would try to splice new chains onto the end
of the current chain by stopping the transmitter, modifying the tail
pointer of the current chain to point to the head of the new chain, then
restart the transmitter. The manual says you're allowed to do this and
it works, but I'm not too keen on it anymore.
The new code waits until the eixsting chain has been sent and then
queues the next waiting chain in the 'transmit ok' handler.
Performance still looks good one way or the other.
This is a 100BaseFX board with SC fiber media connectors. I don't actually
have one of these but I've been told it works with the xl driver.
Submitted by: Jason Wright from the openbsd group
the OpenBSD group to fix a problem with the default ifmedia not being
set properly in some cases with a 3c905B, leading to a panic in ifmedia_set().
Also apply a patch to force the transmit start routine to check the
transmitter to make sure it isn't wedged if the outbound tx queue appears
full. This seems to cure some problems with 'watchdog timeout' errors
cropping up in some cases. I tried to do this before by checking for the
IFF_OACTIVE flag on entry to xl_start(), but if the IFF_OACTIVE flag is
set, ether_output() won't even call xl_start(). It should work now.
Lastly, increase the size of the TX queue from 10 descriptors to 16 to
hopefully make it less likely that the TX queue will fill up.
XCVR value read from the EEPROM is completely wrong. I've had one report
of a 3c900 card that returns an xcvr value of 14, which is impossible
(the manual states that all vales above 8 are reserved). If the value
is out of the expe
Add PCI vendor ID for the 3c980-TX server adapter card, which apparently
also uses the cyclone chip. Graciously supplied Mats O Jansson
<maja@cntw.com>.
Also noted by Mats, the 10mpbs cyclone adapters should be named 3c900B,
not 3c905B. I haven't actually encountered a 10mbps only cyclone adapter
yet, nor anybody who has one, but this makes sense given the naming
scheme used for the older boomerang adapters.
of associated mbuf clusters) in the RX ring from 4 to 16. On my
really fast PI 400Mhz test machines, 4 descriptors (and associated
mbuf clusters) is enough to achieve decent performance without any
RX overruns. However, one person reported problems with the following
scenario:
- P90 system running FreeBSD with a 3c905B-TX adapter, slow IDE hard
disk (Quantum Bigfoot?)
- PII 266 with SCSI disks running LoseNT and also with a 3c905B-TX
- Both machines connected together via crossover cable at 100Mbps
full-duplex
- LoseNT machine writing largs amounts of data (2.5 GB work of
files each in the neighborhood of 1 to 2 MB in size) via samba to
the FreeBSD machine
In this case, the LoseNT machine is sending data very fast. Apparently
there weren't any problems initially because the user was writing to
one particular disk which was relatively fast, however after this disk
filled up and the user started writing to the second slower disk, RX
overruns would occur and sometimes the RX DMA engine would stall after
a 100 to 500MB had been transfered. The xl_rxeof() handler is supposed
to detect this condition and restart the upload engine; I'm not sure
why it doesn't, unless interrupts are being lost and the rx handler
isn't getting called.
This is still an improvement over the Linux driver, which uses 32
descriptors in its receive ring. :)
Problem reported by: Heiko Schaefer <hschaefer@fto.de>
stability now. ALso modify /sys/conf/files, /sys/i386/conf/GENERIC
and /sys/i386/conf/LINT to add entries for the XL driver. Deactivate
support for the XL adapters in the vortex driver. LAstly, add a man
page.
(Also added an MLINKS entry for the ThunderLAN man page which I forgot
previously.)
