- Split the driver into independent pf and vf loadables. This is
in preparation for SRIOV support which will be following shortly.
This also allows us to keep a seperate revision control over the
two parts, making for easier sustaining.
- Make the TX/RX code a shared/seperated file, in the old code base
the ixv code would miss fixes that went into ixgbe, this model
will eliminate that problem.
- The driver loadables will now match the device names, something that
has been requested for some time.
- Rather than a modules/ixgbe there is now modules/ix and modules/ixv
- It will also be possible to make your static kernel with only one
or the other for streamlined installs, or both.
Enjoy!
Submitted by: jfv and erj
(which should be a PCIE Gen 3 slot for this adapter) by looking back thru the PCI
parent devices to the slot device.
The fix above also corrects the bandwidth display to GT/s rather than the
incorrect Gb/s
Next, allow the use of ALTQ if you select the compile option IXGBE_LEGACY_TX.
Allow the use of 'unsupported' optic modules by a compile option as well.
Add a phy reset capability into the stop code, this is so a static configured
driver will still behave properly when taken down (not being able to unload it).
This revision synchronizes the shared code with Intel internal current code,
and note that it now includes DCB supporting code, this was necessitated by
some internal changes with the code, but it also will provide the opportunity
to develop this feature in the core driver down the road.
I have edited the README to get rid of some of the worse anachronisms in it
as well, its by no means as robust as I might wish at this point however.
Oh, I also have included some conditional stuff in the code so it will be
compatible in both the 9.X and 10 environments.
Performance has been a focus in recent changes and I believe this revision
driver will perform very well in most workloads.
MFC after: 2 weeks
Fixes:
- flow control - don't override user value on re-init
- fix to make 1G optics work correctly
- change to interrupt enabling - some bits were incorrect
for certain hardware.
- certain stats fixes, remove a duplicate increment of
ierror, thanks to Scott Long for pointing these out.
- shared code link interface changed, requiring some
core code changes to accomodate this.
- add an m_adj() to ETHER_ALIGN on the recieve side, this
was requested by Mike Karels, thanks Mike.
- Multicast code corrections also thanks to Mike Karels.
- Add a couple of new devices
- Flow control changes in shared and core code
- Bug fix to Flow Director for 82598
- Shared code sync to internal with required core change
Thanks to those helping in the testing and improvements to this driver!
MFC after:5 days
CRITICAL FIX - with stats changes the older 82598 will panic
and trash the stack on driver load, FCOE registers ONLY exist
in 82599 and must not be read otherwise.
kern/153951 - to correct incorrect media type on adapters
with pluggable modules I have eliminated the old static
table in favor of a new dynamic shared code routine. This
also has the benefit of detecting changes when a different
module is inserted.
Performance/enhancement to the Flow Director code from my
linux coworker (the developer of the code).
Fixes from Michael Tuexen - a data corruption problem on the
82599 (CRITICAL), fix so the buf size correctly adjusts as
the cluster changes, and max descriptors are set properly.
Also added 16K clusters for those REALLY big jumbos :)
In the RX path, the RX LOCK was not being released, and this
causes LOR problems. Add the code that igb already has.
Sync with in house shared code, this was necessary for the
Flow Director fix.
MFC in 2 days
- This adds a VM SRIOV interface, ixv, it is however
transparent to the user, it links with the ixgbe.ko,
but when ixgbe is loaded in a virtualized guest with
SRIOV configured this will be detected.
- Sync shared code to latest
- Many bug fixes and improvements, thanks to everyone
who has been using the driver and reporting issues.
This adds new feature support for the 82599, a hardware
assist to LRO, doing this required a large revamp to the
RX cleanup code because the descriptor ring may not be
processed out of order, this necessitated the elimination
of global pointers.
Additionally, the RX routine now does not refresh mbufs
on every descriptor, rather it will do a range, and then
update the hardware pointer at that time. These are
performance oriented changes.
The TX side now has a cleaner simpler watchdog algorithm
as well, in TX cleanup a read of ticks is stored, that
can then be compared in local_timer to determine if
there is a hang.
Various other cleanups along the way, thanks to all who
have provided input and testing.
-This version has header split, and as a result a number of
aspects of the code have been improved/simplified.
- Interrupt handling refined for performance
- Many small bugs fixed along the way
MFC after: ASAP - in time for 7.1
-It has new hardware support
-It uses a new method of TX cleanup called Head Write Back
-It includes the provisional generic TCP LRO feature contributed
by Myricom and made general purpose by me. This should move into
the stack upon approval but for this driver drop its in here.
-Also bug fixes and etc...
MFC in a week if no serious issues arise.
