1. The FreeBSD driver was setting an interrupt coalesce delay of 1000us
for reasons that I can only speculate on. This was hurting everything
from lame sequential I/O "benchmarks" to legitimate filesystem metadata
operations that relied on serialized barrier writes. One of my
filesystem tests went from 35s to complete down to 6s.
2. Implemented the Performant transport method. Without the fix in
(1), I saw almost no difference. With it, my filesystem tests showed
another 5-10% improvement in speed. It was hard to measure CPU
utilization in any meaningful way, so it's not clear if there was a
benefit there, though there should have been since the interrupt handler
was reduced from 2 or more PCI reads down to 1.
3. Implemented MSI-X. Without any docs on this, I was just taking a
guess, and it appears to only work with the Performant method. This
could be a programming or understanding mistake on my part. While this
by itself made almost no difference to performance since the Performant
method already eliminated most of the synchronous reads over the PCI
bus, it did allow the CISS hardware to stop sharing its interrupt with
the USB hardware, which in turn allowed the driver to become decoupled
from the Giant-locked USB driver stack. This increased performance by
almost 20%. The MSI-X setup was done with 4 vectors allocated, but only
1 vector used since the performant method was told to only use 1 of 4
queues. Fiddling with this might make it work with the simpleq method,
not sure. I did not implement MSI since I have no MSI-specific hardware
in my test lab.
4. Improved the locking in the driver, trimmed some data structures.
This didn't improve test times in any measurable way, but it does look
like it gave a minor improvement to CPU usage when many
processes/threads were doing I/O in parallel. Again, this was hard to
accurately test.
it in detail.
When setting media, don't error out when a specific media is selected.
# Note: There may be some issues still here since the EtherJet PC Card doesn't
# conform to the datasheet. Many different kinds of dongles can be plugged in
# and it is unknown how to ask which one it is.
Also, add a /* bad! */ comment to a 1/2 second delay after we set the
DC/DC parameters. This should be a *sleep of some sort for !cold.
Fortunately it is the only one and is only used when setting media, so
the benefit from removing it is small. Unfortunately, it likely
serves as an exemplar of good programming techniques, which it isn't.
when it worked as generic IDE.
PR: 125422
Submitted by: Andrey V. Elsukov <bu7cher at yandex dot ru>
Approved by: imp (mentor, implicit)
MFC after: 1 week
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 )
mutexes and replacing the obsolete if_watchdog interface. The ndis_ticktask
function calls into ieee80211_new_state under one condition with NDIS_LOCK
held. The ieee80211_new_state would call into ndis_start in some cases too,
resulting in the occasional case where ndis_start acquires NDIS_LOCK from
inside the NDIS_LOCK held by ndis_ticktask.
Obtained from: Paul B. Mahol <onemda@gmail.com>
MFC after: 1 week
appropriate (versions not appropriate to merge omitted):
o 1.226 imp nop, save for NetBSD string (minor merging the other way)
o 1.225 jnemeth Coreage LAPCCTXD
o 1.224 martin (remove 3rd and 4th clauses)
o 1.223 kiyohara (TDK bluetooth PC Card)
o 1.222 kiyohara (Anycom BlueCard)
o 1.221 ichiro (NEC Infrontia AX420N)
o 1.219 jmcneill (EDIMAX EP-4101)
o 1.213 tsutsui (TEAC IDECARDII entry fix)
Also, while I'm here, fix some tab problems that have crept in.
Our hook creates the sysctl node before root is mounted, but after cpu
is probed. It seems that k8temp can be loaded before the cpu module and,
in those cases, dev.cpu.0.temperature was not created.
PR: 124939
global symbols, such as raw_input and raw_output, to have lmc_ prefixes.
This doesn't affect actual functionality since the functions are static,
but will limit the opportunities for current confusion and future
difficulty.
MFC after: 3 days
to global hostname and domainname variables. Where necessary, copy
to or from a stack-local buffer before performing copyin() or
copyout(). A few uses, such as in cd9660 and daemon_saver, remain
under-synchronized and will require further updates.
Correct a bug in which a failed copyin() of domainname would leave
domainname potentially corrupted.
MFC after: 3 weeks
AcpiEvaluateObject() calls, otherwise, we are not able to bring devices
back up (NULL means 0, hence always off).
While there add missing WLAN on/off support.
MFC after: 3 days
Pointy hat to: rpaulo
MPSAFE patches on current@ and stable@. This driver also has a fundamental
issue in that it sleeps when sending commands to the card including in the
if_init/if_start routines (which can be called from interrupt context). As
such, the driver shouldn't be working reliably even on 4.x.
- Add a mutex to the softc and use it to protect the softc and device
hardware.
- Setup interrupt handler after ether_ifattach().
- Remove unused sbsh_watchdog() routine.
- Protect against concurrent attempts to load firmware.
- Add a mutex to the softc and use it to protect the softc and device
hardware.
- Setup interrupt handler after attaching device to network stack.
- Use device_set_desc() rather than device_quiet() plus a manual printf
that simulates the normal probe printf.
- Axe next_sbni_unit and instead just leave room for two sbni devices for
each bus attachment.
- Don't bzero the already-zero'd softc.
- Add a detach method to the PCI driver.
- Add a lock to protect the list of available devices used to chain
interrupt handlers for dual port ISA cards.
- Remove unused watchdog routine.
- If if_alloc() fails, make sbni_attach() return an error rather than
panic'ing.
- Consolidate code to free bus resources into sbni_release_resources().
- Clear IFF_DRV_RUNNING|OACTIVE in stop() routine instead of in callers.
- Let ether_ioctl() handle SIOCSIFMTU.
and stable@. It also is a driver for an older non-802.11 wireless PC card
that is quite slow in comparison to say, wi(4). I know Warner wants this
driver axed as well.
- Add a mutex to the softc and use it to lock the softc and device hardware.
- Use a private timer to replace if_watchdog/if_timer.
- Use if_printf() rather than if_xname.
- Setup interrupt handler after ether_ifattach().
- Add a mutex to the softc and use it to protect the softc and device
hardware.
- Setup interrupt handler after ether_ifattach().
- Use a private timer instead of if_timer/if_watchdog.
- Retire arl_unit from the softc and use if_printf() and device_printf()
instead.
Note that the unpatched driver in 6.x and later does not work with the
hardware, so the one person who had volunteered to test the patch wasn't
able to test it.
dispatched without Giant, and add NETISR_FORCEQUEUE, which allows specific
netisr handlers to always be dispatched via a queue (deferred). Mark the
usb and if_ppp netisr handlers as NETISR_FORCEQUEUE, and explicitly
acquire Giant in those handlers.
Previously, any netisr handler not marked NETISR_MPSAFE would necessarily
run deferred and with Giant acquired. This change removes Giant
scaffolding from the netisr infrastructure, but NETISR_FORCEQUEUE allows
non-MPSAFE handlers to continue to force deferred dispatch so as to avoid
lock order reversals between their acqusition of Giant and any calling
context.
It is likely we will be able to remove NETISR_FORCEQUEUE once
IFF_NEEDSGIANT is removed, as non-MPSAFE usb and if_ppp drivers will no
longer be supported.
Reviewed by: bz
MFC after: 1 month
X-MFC note: We can't remove NETISR_MPSAFE from stable/7 for KPI reasons,
but the rest can go back.
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.
Previously we reused the space in the request buffer after the request
header to hold config pages during a transaction. This does not work when
reading large pages however. Also, we were already malloc'ing a buffer to
do a copyin/copyout w/o holding locks that was then copied into/out of the
request buffer. Instead, go ahead and use bus dma to alloc a buffer for
each config page request (and RAID actions that have an associated
ActionSGE). This results in fewer data copies and allows for larger sized
requests. For now the maximum size of a request is arbitrarily limited to
16 MB.
MFC after: 2 weeks
Adaptec RAID 2045
Adaptec RAID 2405
Adaptec RAID 2445
Adaptec RAID 2805
Without this change these devices are supported by the driver's family
support, but they then appear as "Adaptec RAID Controller" in boot
messages and the dev.aac.0.%desc sysctl.
This includes hotkeys support and sysctl variables to control camera
and card reader. These new sysctls don't have CTFLAG_ANYBODY set.
While there add entries to devd.conf related to the Eee volume keys.
Reviewed by: phillip
MFC after: 1 week
Also tested by: lme (previous version)
- Each log entry contains a text description in the "description" field of
the entry. The existing decode logic always ended up duplicating
information that was already in the description string. This made the
logs overly verbose. Now we just print out the description string.
- Add some simple parsing of the timestamp and event classes.
Reviewed by: ambrisko, scottl
MFC after: 2 weeks
