netmap rx queues, and the "batchiness" of rx updates sent to the chip.
These knobs will probably become per-rxq in the near future and will be
documented only after their final form is decided.
MFC after: 1 month
It is disabled by default but users can set IFCAP_TXCSUM on the
netmap ifnet (ifconfig ncxl0 txcsum) to override netmap and force
the hardware to calculate and insert proper IP and L4 checksums in
outbound frames.
MFC after: 2 weeks
Highlights:
- Multiple verbs API updates
- Support for RoCE, RDMA over ethernet
All hardware drivers depending on the common infiniband stack has been
updated aswell.
Discussed with: np @
Sponsored by: Mellanox Technologies
MFC after: 1 month
Drivers (ULDs) and the base if_cxgbe driver.
Track the per-adapter activation of ULDs in a new "active_ulds" field.
This was done pretty arbitrarily before this change -- via TOM_INIT_DONE
in adapter->flags for TOM, and the (1 << MAX_NPORTS) bit in
adapter->offload_map for iWARP.
iWARP and hw-accelerated iSCSI rely on the TOE (supported by the TOM
ULD). The rules are:
a) If the iWARP and/or iSCSI ULDs are available when TOE is enabled then
iWARP and/or iSCSI are enabled too.
b) When the iWARP and iSCSI modules are loaded they go looking for
adapters with TOE enabled and enable themselves on that adapter.
c) You cannot deactivate or unload the TOM module from underneath iWARP
or iSCSI. Any such attempt will fail with EBUSY.
MFC after: 2 weeks
a dependency. This ensures "ifconfig cxl<n> ..." does the right thing
even when it's run with no driver loaded.
if_cxl.ko is the tiniest module in /boot/kernel.
MFC after: 2 weeks
the no-longer existant sb_cc sockbuf member.
- Use sbavail() instead of sbused() in t4_soreceive_ddp() to match the
usage in soreceive_stream() on which it is based.
Discussed with: glebius (2)
"MODULE_VERSION" macro definition. Remove the redefinition of the
"MODULE_VERSION" macro from the Linux kernel compatibility API.
MFC after: 1 month
Reported by: np@
Sponsored by: Mellanox Technologies
a) Front load as much work as possible in if_transmit, before any driver
lock or software queue has to get involved.
b) Replace buf_ring with a brand new mp_ring (multiproducer ring). This
is specifically for the tx multiqueue model where one of the if_transmit
producer threads becomes the consumer and other producers carry on as
usual. mp_ring is implemented as standalone code and it should be
possible to use it in any driver with tx multiqueue. It also has:
- the ability to enqueue/dequeue multiple items. This might become
significant if packet batching is ever implemented.
- an abdication mechanism to allow a thread to give up writing tx
descriptors and have another if_transmit thread take over. A thread
that's writing tx descriptors can end up doing so for an unbounded
time period if a) there are other if_transmit threads continuously
feeding the sofware queue, and b) the chip keeps up with whatever the
thread is throwing at it.
- accurate statistics about interesting events even when the stats come
at the expense of additional branches/conditional code.
The NIC txq lock is uncontested on the fast path at this point. I've
left it there for synchronization with the control events (interface
up/down, modload/unload).
c) Add support for "type 1" coalescing work request in the normal NIC tx
path. This work request is optimized for frames with a single item in
the DMA gather list. These are very common when forwarding packets.
Note that netmap tx in cxgbe already uses these "type 1" work requests.
d) Do not request automatic cidx updates every 32 descriptors. Instead,
request updates via bits in individual work requests (still every 32
descriptors approximately). Also, request an automatic final update
when the queue idles after activity. This means NIC tx reclaim is still
performed lazily but it will catch up quickly as soon as the queue
idles. This seems to be the best middle ground and I'll probably do
something similar for netmap tx as well.
e) Implement a faster tx path for WRQs (used by TOE tx and control
queues, _not_ by the normal NIC tx). Allow work requests to be written
directly to the hardware descriptor ring if room is available. I will
convert t4_tom and iw_cxgbe modules to this faster style gradually.
MFC after: 2 months
adapters. Set the pack boundary for T5 cards to be the same as the
PCIe max payload size. The chip likes it this way.
In this revision the driver allocate rx buffers that align on both
boundaries. This is not a strict requirement and a followup commit
will switch the driver to a more relaxed allocation strategy.
MFC after: 2 weeks
from the FreeBSD network code. The flag is still kept around in the
"sys/mbuf.h" header file, but does no longer have any users. Instead
the "m_pkthdr.rsstype" field in the mbuf structure is now used to
decide the meaning of the "m_pkthdr.flowid" field. To modify the
"m_pkthdr.rsstype" field please use the existing "M_HASHTYPE_XXX"
macros as defined in the "sys/mbuf.h" header file.
This patch introduces new behaviour in the transmit direction.
Previously network drivers checked if "M_FLOWID" was set in "m_flags"
before using the "m_pkthdr.flowid" field. This check has now now been
replaced by checking if "M_HASHTYPE_GET(m)" is different from
"M_HASHTYPE_NONE". In the future more hashtypes will be added, for
example hashtypes for hardware dedicated flows.
"M_HASHTYPE_OPAQUE" indicates that the "m_pkthdr.flowid" value is
valid and has no particular type. This change removes the need for an
"if" statement in TCP transmit code checking for the presence of a
valid flowid value. The "if" statement mentioned above is now a direct
variable assignment which is then later checked by the respective
network drivers like before.
Additional notes:
- The SCTP code changes will be committed as a separate patch.
- Removal of the "M_FLOWID" flag will also be done separately.
- The FreeBSD version has been bumped.
MFC after: 1 month
Sponsored by: Mellanox Technologies
sending not ready data:
o Add new flag to pru_send() flags - PRUS_NOTREADY.
o Add new protocol method pru_ready().
Sponsored by: Nginx, Inc.
Sponsored by: Netflix
o Introduce a notion of "not ready" mbufs in socket buffers. These
mbufs are now being populated by some I/O in background and are
referenced outside. This forces following implications:
- An mbuf which is "not ready" can't be taken out of the buffer.
- An mbuf that is behind a "not ready" in the queue neither.
- If sockbet buffer is flushed, then "not ready" mbufs shouln't be
freed.
o In struct sockbuf the sb_cc field is split into sb_ccc and sb_acc.
The sb_ccc stands for ""claimed character count", or "committed
character count". And the sb_acc is "available character count".
Consumers of socket buffer API shouldn't already access them directly,
but use sbused() and sbavail() respectively.
o Not ready mbufs are marked with M_NOTREADY, and ready but blocked ones
with M_BLOCKED.
o New field sb_fnrdy points to the first not ready mbuf, to avoid linear
search.
o New function sbready() is provided to activate certain amount of mbufs
in a socket buffer.
A special note on SCTP:
SCTP has its own sockbufs. Unfortunately, FreeBSD stack doesn't yet
allow protocol specific sockbufs. Thus, SCTP does some hacks to make
itself compatible with FreeBSD: it manages sockbufs on its own, but keeps
sb_cc updated to inform the stack of amount of data in them. The new
notion of "not ready" data isn't supported by SCTP. Instead, only a
mechanical substitute is done: s/sb_cc/sb_ccc/.
A proper solution would be to take away struct sockbuf from struct
socket and allow protocols to implement their own socket buffers, like
SCTP already does. This was discussed with rrs@.
Sponsored by: Netflix
Sponsored by: Nginx, Inc.
leave a port permanently disabled when a copper cable is unplugged and
then plugged right back in.
lacp_linkstate goes looking for the current ifmedia on a link state
change and it could get stale information from cxgbe(4) on a module
unplug followed by replug. The fix is to process module events before
link-state events within the driver, and to always rebuild the ifmedia
list on a module change event (instead of rebuilding it lazily).
Thanks to asomers@ for the problem report and detailed analysis to go
with it.
MFC after: 1 week
sb_cc member of struct sockbuf to a couple of inline functions:
sbavail() and sbused()
Right now they are equal, but once notion of "not ready socket buffer data",
will be checked in, they are going to be different.
Sponsored by: Netflix
Sponsored by: Nginx, Inc.
initial MPA exchange must be tracked this way so that t4_tom's state for
the tid is all clean at the time the tid transitions to RDMA mode. Once
it does, t4_tom is out of the way and iw_cxgbe uses the qp endpoints
directly.
Sponsored by: Chelsio Communications
- Free rt in c4iw_connect only if it is allocated.
- Call soclose instead of so_shutdown if there is an abort from the peer.
- Close socket and return failure if TOE is not enabled.
Submitted by: Hariprasad at Chelsio dot com
Sponsored by: Chelsio Communications
