for the ath(4) driver.
Currently, there's nothing stopping reset, channel change and general
TX/RX from overlapping with each other. This wasn't a big deal with
pre-11n traffic as it just results in some dropped frames.
It's possible this may have also caused some inconsistencies and
badly-setup hardware.
Since locks can't be held across all of this (the Linux solution)
due to LORs with the network stack locks, some state counter
variables are used to track what parts of the code the driver is
currently in.
When the hardware is being reset, it disables the taskqueue and
waits for pending interrupts, tx, rx and tx completion before
it begins the reset or channel change.
TX and RX both abort if called during an active reset or channel
change.
Finally, the reset path now doesn't flush frames if ATH_RESET_NOLOSS
is set. Instead, completed TX and RX frames are passed back up to
net80211 before the reset occurs.
This is not without problems:
* Raw frame xmit are just dropped, rather than placed on a queue.
The net80211 stack should be the one which queues these frames
rather than the driver.
* It's all very messy. It'd be better if these hardware operations
were serialised on some kind of work queue, rather than hoping
they can be run in parallel.
* The taskqueue block/unblock may occur in parallel with the
newstate() function - which shuts down the taskqueue and restarts
it once the new state is known. It's likely these operations should
be refcounted so the taskqueue is restored once no other areas
in the code wish to suspend operations.
* .. interrupt disable/enable should likely be refcounted as well.
With this work, the driver does not drop frames during stuck beacon
or fatal errors and thus 11n traffic continues to run correctly.
Default and full resets however do still drop frames and it's possible
this may occur, causing traffic loss and session stalls.
Sponsored by: Hobnob, Inc.
It blocks CAM SWI usage on requests completion, unneeded because of polling
and denied during kernel dumping because of blocked scheduler.
Before r198899 there was periph flag CAM_PERIPH_POLLED, but that was wrong,
because there is whole SIM is polled or handled by SWI, not a single periph.
Tested by: kib
MFC after: 1 month
completely skipping them, create ahcich devices for them to allocate unit
numbers, but mark them as disabled to prevent driver probe and attach.
Last time some BIOSes tend to report unused channels as "not implemented".
This change makes ahcichX devices numbering consistent, independently of
connected disks. It makes per-channel driver hints usable and CAM devices
wiring possible on such systems.
for having kernel text non-writable, because we still need to
apply relocations. On top of that, the PBVM page table has all
pages marked as RWX, so it's an inconsistency to begin with.
The pmap update_page/invalidate_page/invalidate_all operations has to be
done only on active cpus. In the simplest case, if the process is not
active on any other CPUs, we can just do the operation on the current CPU.
This change replaces the call to smp_rendezvous() for these operations with
smp_rendezvous_cpus() in case there more than one active CPU, or with a direct
function call if there is just one active CPU.
This change give significant performance increase in fork/exec benchmarks
on XLR/XLS/XLP with 32 cpus.
Reviewed by: alc
I/O from userspace, capable of line rate at 10G, see
http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/netmap/
At this time I am bringing in only the generic code (sys/dev/netmap/
plus two headers under sys/net/), and some sample applications in
tools/tools/netmap. There is also a manpage in share/man/man4 [1]
In order to make use of the framework you need to build a kernel
with "device netmap", and patch individual drivers with the code
that you can find in
sys/dev/netmap/head.diff
The file will go away as the relevant pieces are committed to
the various device drivers, which should happen in a few days
after talking to the driver maintainers.
Netmap support is available at the moment for Intel 10G and 1G
cards (ixgbe, em/lem/igb), and for the Realtek 1G card ("re").
I have partial patches for "bge" and am starting to work on "cxgbe".
Hopefully changes are trivial enough so interested third parties
can submit their patches. Interested people can contact me
for advice on how to add netmap support to specific devices.
CREDITS:
Netmap has been developed by Luigi Rizzo and other collaborators
at the Universita` di Pisa, and supported by EU project CHANGE
(http://www.change-project.eu/)
The code is distributed under a BSD Copyright.
[1] In my opinion is a bad idea to have all manpage in one directory.
We should place kernel documentation in the same dir that contains
the code, which would make it much simpler to keep doc and code
in sync, reduce the clutter in share/man/ and incidentally is
the policy used for all of userspace code.
Makefiles and doc tools can be trivially adjusted to find the
manpages in the relevant subdirs.
controllers.
More and more RealTek controllers started to implement EEE feature.
Vendor driver seems to load a kind of firmware for EEE with
additional PHY fixups. It is known that the EEE feature may need
ASPM support. Unfortunately there is no documentation for EEE of
the controller so enabling ASPM may cause more problems.
This enables locking consumers to pass their own structures around as const and
be able to assert locks embedded into those structures.
Reviewed by: ed, kib, jhb
Unnecessarily complex LE format used on Marvell controller was
main reason not to enable 64bit DMA addressing in driver. If high
32bit address of DMA address of TX/RX buffer is changed, driver has
to generate a new LE. In TX path, driver will keep track of lastly
used high 32bit address of DMA address and generate a new LE
whenever it sees high address change in the DMA address. In RX path,
driver will always use two LEs to specify 64bit DMA address of RX
buffer. If the high 32bit address of DMA address of RX buffer is
the same as previous DMA address of RX buffer, driver does not have
to use two LEs but driver will use two LEs for simplicity in RX
ring management.
One of draw back for switching to 64bit DMA addressing is that the
large amount of LEs are used to specify 64bit DMA address such that
number of available LEs for TX/RX buffers are considerably reduced.
To mitigate the issue, increase number of available LEs from 256 to
384 for TX and from 256 to 512 for RX. For 32bit architectures,
msk(4) does not use 64bit DMA addressing to save resources.
Tested by: das
based on Solarflare SFC9000 family controllers. The driver supports jumbo
frames, transmit/receive checksum offload, TCP Segmentation Offload (TSO),
Large Receive Offload (LRO), VLAN checksum offload, VLAN TSO, and Receive Side
Scaling (RSS) using MSI-X interrupts.
This work was sponsored by Solarflare Communications, Inc.
My sincere thanks to Ben Hutchings for doing a lot of the hard work!
Sponsored by: Solarflare Communications, Inc.
MFC after: 3 weeks
yielding a new public interface, vm_page_alloc_contig(). This new function
addresses some of the limitations of the current interfaces, contigmalloc()
and kmem_alloc_contig(). For example, the physically contiguous memory that
is allocated with those interfaces can only be allocated to the kernel vm
object and must be mapped into the kernel virtual address space. It also
provides functionality that vm_phys_alloc_contig() doesn't, such as wiring
the returned pages. Moreover, unlike that function, it respects the low
water marks on the paging queues and wakes up the page daemon when
necessary. That said, at present, this new function can't be applied to all
types of vm objects. However, that restriction will be eliminated in the
coming weeks.
From a design standpoint, this change also addresses an inconsistency
between vm_phys_alloc_contig() and the other vm_phys_alloc*() functions.
Specifically, vm_phys_alloc_contig() manipulated vm_page fields that other
functions in vm/vm_phys.c didn't. Moreover, vm_phys_alloc_contig() knew
about vnodes and reservations. Now, vm_page_alloc_contig() is responsible
for these things.
Reviewed by: kib
Discussed with: jhb
can be enabled via the hw.mfi.msi tunable. Many mfi(4) controllers also
support MSI-X, but in testing it seems that many adapters do not work with
MSI-X but do work with MSI.
MFC after: 2 weeks
is actually broken, or needs a BIOS upgrade for 64 bit loads, but this uncovered
a couple of misplaced opcode definitions and some missing continual mbox command
cases, so might as well update them here.
maximum IP datagram size (65535 bytes) +
Ethernet header size (14 bytes) +
2 * VLAN tag size (4 bytes) [1].
[1] We need to multiply by 2 to account for the double VLAN tag
provision added in IEEE 802.1ad.
Submitted by: David Somayajulu (david.somayajulu qlogic.com)
MFC after: 4 days
for regular files. Since other file types don't write into the
buffer cache, calling ncl_flush() is almost a no-op. However, it does
clear the NMODIFIED flag and this shouldn't be done by nfs_fsync() for
directories.
MFC after: 2 weeks
directly from g7, the pcpu pointer. This guarantees correct behavior
when the thread migrates to a different CPU.
Commit message stolen from r205431. Additional testing by Peter Jeremy.
MFC after: 3 days
curthread-accessing part of mtx_{,un}lock(9) when using a r210623-style
curthread implementation on sparc64, crashing the kernel in its early
cycles as PCPU isn't set up, yet (and can't be set up as OFW is one of the
things we need for that, which leads to a chicken-and-egg problem). What
happens is that due to the fact that the idea of r210623 actually is to
allow the compiler to cache invocations of curthread, it factors out
obtaining curthread needed for both mtx_lock(9) and mtx_unlock(9) to
before the branch based on kobj_mutex_inited when compiling the kernel
without the debugging options. So change kobj_class_compile_static(9)
to just never acquire kobj_mtx, effectively restricting it to its
documented use, and add a kobj_init_static(9) for initializing objects
using a class compiled with the former and that also avoids using mutex(9)
(and malloc(9)). Also assert in both of these functions that they are
used in their intended way only.
While at it, inline kobj_register_method() and kobj_unregister_method()
as there wasn't much point for factoring them out in the first place
and so that a reader of the code has to figure out the locking for
fewer functions missing a KOBJ_ASSERT.
Tested on powerpc{,64} by andreast.
Reviewed by: nwhitehorn (earlier version), jhb
MFC after: 3 days
layer for old KPI and KBI. New interface should be used together with
d_mmap_single cdevsw method.
Device pager can be allocated with the cdev_pager_allocate(9)
function, which takes struct cdev_pager_ops, containing
constructor/destructor and page fault handler methods supplied by
driver.
Constructor and destructor, called at the pager allocation and
deallocation time, allow the driver to handle per-object private data.
The pager handler is called to handle page fault on the vm map entry
backed by the driver pager. Driver shall return either the vm_page_t
which should be mapped, or error code (which does not cause kernel
panic anymore). The page handler interface has a placeholder to
specify the access mode causing the fault, but currently PROT_READ is
always passed there.
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Reviewed by: alc
MFC after: 1 month
before the nfs_decode_args() call in the new NFS client, so
that a specfied command line value won't be overwritten.
Also, modify the calculation for small values of desiredvnodes
to avoid an unusually large value or a divide by zero crash.
It seems that the default value for nm_wcommitsize is very
conservative and may need to change at some time.
PR: kern/159351
Submitted by: onwahe at gmail.com (earlier version)
Reviewed by: jhb
MFC after: 2 weeks
- Don't use a single big DMA block for all rings. Create separate
DMA area for each ring instead. Currently the following DMA
areas are created:
Event ring, standard RX ring, jumbo RX ring, RX return ring,
hardware MAC statistics and producer/consumer status area.
For Tigon II, mini RX ring and TX ring are additionally created.
- Added missing bus_dmamap_sync(9) in various TX/RX paths.
- TX ring is no longer created for Tigon 1 such that it saves more
resources on Tigon 1.
- Data sheet is not clear about alignment requirement of each ring
so use 32 bytes alignment for normal DMA area but use 64 bytes
alignment for jumbo RX ring where the extended RX descriptor
size is 64 bytes.
- For each TX/RX buffers use separate DMA tag(e.g. the size of a
DMA segment, total size of DMA segments etc).
- Tigon allows separate DMA area for event producer, RX return
producer and TX consumer which is really cool feature. This
means TX and RX path could be independently run in parallel.
However ti(4) uses a single driver lock so it's meaningless
to have separate DMA area for these producer/consumer such that
this change creates a single status DMA area.
- It seems Tigon has no limits on DMA address space and I also
don't see any problem with that but old comments in driver
indicates there could be issues on descriptors being located in
64bit region. Introduce a tunable, dev.ti.%d.dac, to disable
using 64bit DMA in driver. The default is 0 which means it would
use full 64bit DMA. If there are DMA issues, users can disable
it by setting the tunable to 0.
- Do not increase watchdog timer in ti_txeof(). Previously driver
increased the watchdog timer whenever there are queued TX frames.
- When stat ticks is set to 0, skip processing ti_stats_update(),
avoiding bus_dmamap_sync(9) and updating if_collisions counter.
- MTU does not include FCS bytes, replace it with
ETHER_VLAN_ENCAP_LEN.
With these changes, ti(4) should work on PAE environments.
Many thanks to Jay Borkenhagen for remote hardware access.
Before r215687, if some withered geom or provider could not be destroyed,
g_event thread went to sleep for 0.1s before retrying. After that change
it is just restarting immediately. r227009 made orphaned (withered) provider
to not detach immediately, but only after context switch. That made loop
inside g_event thread infinite on UP systems without PREEMPTION.
To address original problem with possible dead lock addressed by r227009
we have to fix r215687 change first, that needs some time to think and test.
have administrators control them. ti(4) provides a character
device to control various other features of driver via ioctls but
users had to write their own code to manipulate these parameters.
It seems some default values for these parameters are not optimal
on today's system but leave it as it was and let administrators
change them. The following parameters could be changed:
dev.ti.%d.rx_coal_ticks
dev.ti.%d.rx_max_coal_bds
dev.ti.%d.tx_coal_ticks
dev.ti.%d.tx_max_coal_bds
dev.ti.%d.tx_buf_ratio
dev.ti.%d.stat_ticks
The interface has to be brought down and up again before a change
takes effect.
ti(4) controller supports hardware MAC counters with additional
DMA statistics. So it's doable to export these counters via
sysctl interface. Unfortunately, these counters are cumulative
such that driver have to either send an explicit clear command to
controller after extracting them or have to maintain internal
counters to get actual changes. Neither look good to me so
counters were not exported via sysctl.
