http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/vale/
VALE lets you dynamically instantiate multiple software bridges
that talk the netmap API (and are *extremely* fast), so you can test
netmap applications without the need for high end hardware.
This is particularly useful as I am completing a netmap-aware
version of ipfw, and VALE provides an excellent testing platform.
Also, I also have netmap backends for qemu mostly ready for commit
to the port, and this too will let you interconnect virtual machines
at high speed without fiddling with bridges, tap or other slow solutions.
The API for applications is unchanged, so you can use the code
in tools/tools/netmap (which i will update soon) on the VALE ports.
This commit also syncs the code with the one in my internal repository,
so you will see some conditional code for other platforms.
The code should run mostly unmodified on stable/9 so people interested
in trying it can just copy sys/dev/netmap/ and sys/net/netmap*.h
from HEAD
VALE is joint work with my colleague Giuseppe Lettieri, and
is partly supported by the EU Projects CHANGE and OPENLAB
subdevice ahciem. Emulate SEMB SES device from AHCI LED interface to expose
it to users in form of ses(4) CAM device. If we ever see AHCI controllers
supporting SES of SAF-TE over I2C as described by specification, they should
fit well into this new picture.
Sponsored by: iXsystems, Inc.
list of supported devices with the union of:
NetBSD src/sys/dev/usb/uslsa.c 1.18
OpenBSD src/sys/dev/usb/uslcom.c 1.24
Linux source/drivers/usb/serial/cp210x.c HEAD
Remove duplicate JABLOTRON PC60B entry.
Note that some of the devices added here are multi-port devices. The
uslcom(4) driver currently only supports the first port on such devices.
Update the man page to reflect the full list of supported devices.
Remove two caveats from the CAVEATS section, as both listed caveats no
longer apply. Add a caveat about multi-port devices.
MFC after: 2 weeks
- The USLCOM_SET_BAUD_DIV command (0x01)
- The USLCOM_SET_BAUD_RATE command (0x13)
Devices based on the CP1204 will only accept the latter command, and ignore
the former. As the latter command works on all chips that this driver
supports, switch to always using it.
A slight confusion here is that the previously used command was incorrectly
named USLCOM_BAUD_RATE - even though we no longer use it, rename it to
USLCOM_SET_BAUD_DIV to closer match the name used in the datasheet.
This change reflects a similar change made in the Linux driver, which was
submitted by preston.fick at silabs.com, and has been tested on all of the
uslcom(4) devices I have to hand.
MFC after: 2 weeks
one device (support for Motorola cables), this syncronises us with:
OpenBSD src/sys/dev/usb/uplcom.c 1.56
NetBSD src/sys/dev/usb/uplcom.c 1.73
Linux kernel.org HEAD
MFC after: 1 week
when used in qemu (and this driver is for non-PCIe cards,
so probably its largest use is in virtualized environments).
Approved by: Jack Vogel
MFC after: 3 days
The AR9300 and later descriptors are 128 bytes, however I'd like to make
sure that isn't used for earlier chips.
* Populate the TX descriptor length field in the softc with
sizeof(ath_desc)
* Use this field when allocating the TX descriptors
* Pre-AR93xx TX/RX descriptors will use the ath_desc size; newer ones will
query the HAL for these sizes.
The function keys on a Microsoft Natural Egronomic Keyboard 4000 have been
repurposed as "Help", "Undo", "Redo" etc., and a special "F Lock" key is
required to return them to their normal purpose.
This change enables the UQ_KBD_BOOTPROTO quirk for the MS Natural 4000
keyboard to get the keys working again. More extensive changes to the USB
keyboard infrastructure would be needed to fully support the "F Lock" mode
and the extended keys on this keyboard.
PR: usb/116947
Approved by: hselasky@
* Introduce TX DMA setup/teardown methods, mirroring what's done in
the RX path.
Although the TX DMA descriptor is setup via ath_desc_alloc() /
ath_desc_free(), there TX status descriptor ring will be allocated
in this path.
* Remove some of the TX EDMA capability probing from the RX path and
push it into the new TX EDMA path.
sized TX descriptor.
This is required for the AR93xx EDMA support which requires 128 byte
TX descriptors (which is significantly larger than the earlier
hardware.)
For now, the only module implement is 'sample', and that's only partially
implemented. The main issue here with reusing this structure in userland
is that it uses 'rix' everywhere, which requires the userland code to
have access to the current HAL rate table.
For now, this is a very large work in progress.
Specific details:
* The rate control information is per-node at the moment and wrapped
in a TLV, to ease parsing and backwards compatibility.
* .. but so I can be slack for now, the userland statistics are just
a copy of the kernel-land sample node state.
* However, for now use a temporary copy and change the rix entries
to dot11rate entries to make it slightly easier to eyeball.
Problems:
* The actual rate information table is unfortunately indexed by rix
and it doesn't contain a rate code. So the userland side of this
currently has no way to extract out a mapping.
TODO:
* Add a TLV payload to dump out the rate control table mapping so
'rix' can be turned into a dot11 / MCS rate.
* .. then remove the temporary copy.
data introduced in r236061. Using that flag doesn't make that much
sense on this case as the DMA maps using it are also created during
sym_pci_attach(). Moreover, due to the maxsegsz parameter used, doing
so may exhaust the bounce pages pool on architectures requiring
bounce pages. [1]
While at it, use a slightly more appropriate maxsegsz parameter.
PR: 169526
Submitted by: Mike Watters [1]
MFC after: 3 days
TX descriptor link pointers.
This is required for the AR93xx and later chipsets.
The RX path is slightly different - the legacy RX path directly
accesses ath_desc->ds_link for now, however this isn't at all done
for EDMA (FIFO) RX.
Now, for those performing a little software archeology here:
This is all a bit sub-optimal. "struct ath_desc" is only really relevant
for the pre-AR93xx NICs - where ds_link and ds_data is always in the
same location.
The AR93xx and later NICs have different descriptor layouts altogether.
Now, for AR93xx and later NICs, you should never directly reference
ds_link and ds_data, as:
* the RX descriptors don't have either - the data is _after_ the RX
descriptor. They're just one large buffer. There's also no need for
a per-descriptor RX buffer size as they're all fixed sizes.
* the TX descriptors have 4 buffer and 4 length fields _and_ a link
pointer. Each frame takes up one TX FIFO pointer, but it can contain
multiple subframes (either multiple frames in a buffer, and/or
multiple frames in an aggregate/RIFS burst.)
* .. so, when TX frames are queued to a hardware queue, the link
pointer is ONLY for buffers in that frame/aggregate. The next frame
starts in a new FIFO pointer.
* Finally, descriptor completion status is in a different ring.
I'll write something up about that when its time to do so.
This was inspired by Linux ath9k and the reference driver but is a
reimplementation.
Obtained from: Linux ath9k, Qualcomm Atheros
The DMA FIFO chips (AR93xx and later) differ slightly to th elegacy
chips:
* The RX DMA descriptors don't have a ds_link field;
* The TX DMA descriptors have a ds_link field however at a different
offset.
This is a reimplementation based on what the reference driver and ath9k
does.
A subsequent commit will enable it in the TX and beacon paths.
Obtained from: Linux ath9k, Qualcomm Atheros
The AR9003 series NICs implement a separate RX error to signal that a
Keycache miss occured. The earlier NICs would not set the key index
valid bit.
I'll dig into the difference between "no key index bit set" and "keycache
miss".
* wrap the RX proc calls in the RX refcount;
* call the DFS checking, fast frames staging and TX rescheduling if
required.
TODO:
* figure out if I can just make "do TX rescheduling" mean "schedule
TX taskqueue" ?
with fresh descriptors, before handling the frames.
Wrap it all in the RX locks.
Since the FIFO is very shallow (16 for HP, 128 for LP) it needs to be
drained and replenished very quickly. Ideally, I'll eventually move this
RX FIFO drain/fill into the interrupt handler, only deferring the actual
frame completion.
