This lets a VXLAN pseudo-interface take advantage of hardware checksumming (tx
and rx), TSO, and RSS if the NIC is capable of performing these operations on
inner VXLAN traffic.
A VXLAN interface inherits the capabilities of its vxlandev interface if one is
specified or of the interface that hosts the vxlanlocal address. If other
interfaces will carry traffic for that VXLAN then they must have the same
hardware capabilities.
On transmit, if_vxlan verifies that the outbound interface has the required
capabilities and then translates the CSUM_ flags to their inner equivalents.
This tells the hardware ifnet that it needs to operate on the inner frame and
not the outer VXLAN headers.
An event is generated when a VXLAN ifnet starts. This allows hardware drivers to
configure their devices to expect VXLAN traffic on the specified incoming port.
On receive, the hardware does RSS and checksum verification on the inner frame.
if_vxlan now does a direct netisr dispatch to take full advantage of RSS. It is
not very clear why it didn't do this already.
Future work:
Rx: it should be possible to avoid the first trip up the protocol stack to get
the frame to if_vxlan just so it can decapsulate and requeue for a second trip
up the stack. The hardware NIC driver could directly call an if_vxlan receive
routine for VXLAN traffic instead.
Rx: LRO. depends on what happens with the previous item. There will have to to
be a mechanism to indicate that it's time for if_vxlan to flush its LRO state.
Reviewed by: kib@
Relnotes: Yes
Sponsored by: Chelsio Communications
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D25873
In D12421, the ability to compile stand/ in little-endian was added, with the
intention to extend loader.kboot to run in Petitboot.
However, no further work was done, as the kernel then gained self-execution
capabilities as Petitboot was taught to load FreeBSD kernels directly.
The FreeBSD installer on powerpc64 (on POWER8 and POWER9) uses
/boot/etc/kboot.conf instead of loader.
As this option does nothing but cause stand/ to be miscompiled and actively
causes confusion, remove it.
(I have a functioning petitboot loader in my local tree, however, it turned
out to be quite inconvient to use due to the current petitboot plugin design
so I put it on hold.)
Reviewed by: emaste, imp, jhibbits
Sponsored by: Tag1 Consulting, Inc.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D26430
Submitted by: Ka Ho Ng <khng300@gmail.com>
Reviewed by: markj
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D26372
When cache precedes files, and nscd is configured to allow negative caching,
commands like "pw groupadd" can fail. The sequence of events looks like:
1. A command like pkg(8) looks up the group, and finds it absent.
2. pkg invokes pw(8) to add the group
3. pkg queries the group, but nscd says it doesn't exist, since it has a
negative cache entry for that group.
See also: https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2012-January/031595.html
Reviewed by: bcr (manpages)
MFC after: 1 week
Sponsored by: Axcient
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D26184
For historical reasons, defining MALLOC_PRODUCTION in /etc/make.conf has
been used to turn off potentially expensive debug checks and statistics
gathering in the implementation of malloc(3).
It seems more consistent to turn this into a regular src.conf(5) option,
e.g. WITH_MALLOC_PRODUCTION / WITHOUT_MALLOC_PRODUCTION. This can then
be toggled similar to any other source build option, and turned on or
off by default for e.g. stable branches.
Reviewed by: imp, #manpages
MFC after: 1 week
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D26337
hints data. Control register 2 holds the settings a user might want to
configure, such as the timeout value for idle busses and whether to enable
the mass-writes feature.
Also add hint support for disconnecting idle busses (which was already
supported using FDT data).
Update the manpage with the new features, and also split the hints section
into separate lists of required and optional hints.
This allows privileged userspace processes to find information about the
physical page backing a given mapping. It is useful in applications
such as DPDK which perform some of their own memory management.
Reviewed by: kib, jhb (previous version)
MFC after: 2 weeks
Sponsored by: Juniper Networks, Inc.
Sponsored by: Klara Inc.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D26237
It's no longer unusual to be able to build a release with a single
command, so drop "actually" that hints at a surprise. Also just use
"network install directory" instead of referencing FTP; it's more
likely to be HTTP now.
Reviewed by: gjb
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D26260
Add deprecation notice for apm bios, aka the apm(4) device. The apm(8)
command will remain, at least for a while, since ACPI emulates the apm
ioctl interface.
Discussed on: arch@
Relnotes: yes
MFC After: 3 days
In Linux, ksize() gets the actual amount of memory allocated for a given
object. This commit adds malloc_usable_size() to FreeBSD KPI which does
the same. It also maps LinuxKPI ksize() to newly created function.
ksize() function is used by drm-kmod.
Reviewed by: hselasky, kib
MFC after: 1 week
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D26215
sbuf_setpos can only be used to truncate the buffer, never to make it
longer. Update the documentation to reflect this.
Reviewed By: allanjude, phk
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D26198
crypto(9) functions can now be used on buffers composed of an array of
vm_page_t structures, such as those stored in an unmapped struct bio. It
requires the running to kernel to support the direct memory map, so not all
architectures can use it.
Reviewed by: markj, kib, jhb, mjg, mat, bcr (manpages)
MFC after: 1 week
Sponsored by: Axcient
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D25671
It was a driver for a USB FM tuner that was available in the market in 2002. I
wrote the driver in 2003. I've not used it since 2005 or so, so it's time to
retire this driver. No userland code ever interfaced to the special device it
created. There's no user base: the last bug I received on this driver was in
2004.
Relnotes: Yes
