strategy used in the 3Com Linux driver. The new strategy is to use transmit
descriptor polling -- that is, the NIC polls the descriptors to see when
new packets are available for transmission. The advantage to the new scheme
is that no register accesses are needed in the transmit routine. The old
scheme requires several register accesses to stall the TX engine, update the
TX DMA list pointer register, then unstall the TX engine. Hopefully the new
scheme will provide improved transmit performance with less CPU overhead.
This only affects the 3c90xB or 3c90xC cards, not the 3c90x cards. This
means the original 3c900 and 3c905 cards are unaffected. Newer cards include
the 3c900B series, the 3c905B, 3c980, 3c980B, 3c905C and 3c905C, and the
3cSOHO100-TX OfficeConnect.
close PR #13757, however I'm waiting on user feedback before declaring the
PR officially closed. Among other things, this improves UDP transmit
performance, and tx underruns are now detected and the TX start threshold
adjusted accordingly.
far-reaching in fd-land, so you'll want to consult the code for
changes. The biggest change is that now, you don't use
fp->f_ops->fo_foo(fp, bar)
but instead
fo_foo(fp, bar),
which increments and decrements the fp refcount upon entry and exit.
Two new calls, fhold() and fdrop(), are provided. Each does what it
seems like it should, and if fdrop() brings the refcount to zero, the
fd is freed as well.
Thanks to peter ("to hell with it, it looks ok to me.") for his review.
Thanks to msmith for keeping me from putting locks everywhere :)
Reviewed by: peter
* Support for our dual ELF/a.out building ability
* Our custom ASM_* definitions
* Our custom debugger and profiling related definitions
* Our custom STARTFILE/ENDFILE specs
* The stock EGCS 1.1.2 freebsd-elf.h file depended on
egcs-1.1.2/gcc/config/linux.h, which included "svr4.h". We will
include "svr4.h" via our "tm.h" definition. So add the few bits
from "linux.h" we actually needed.
* Using our current crtbegin.o/crtend.o we cannot support the DWARF2
unwinding mechanisms. In the future we will switch to the
non-sjlj-exceptions type exception machanism. However the `make world'
bootstrap problems with the EGCS crtstuff.c must be overcome first.
* Our a.out gas doesn't "know" to use NOP's for aligns while in the text
section. Thus the a.out alignment generation needed tweaking from
what we did with GCC 2.7.2. [from BDE]
* The definition of SUPPORTS_ONE_ONLY prevents the compiler from trying
to use "linkonce" sections for a.out. The definition of
NO_DBX_FUNCTION_END we had causes it to avoid .stabs symbols that the
assembler cannot handle for a.out. [from JDP]
* The previous "EXCEPTION_SECTION_FUNCTION" is the wrong name for EGCS.
It also needed tweaking for EGCS. [from JDP]
Also bump __FreeBSD_cc_version to 400002 in case we need to know we are
using EGCS at some point.
- Remove sc_get_scr_stat(). It's not necessary anymore.
- Call ttymalloc() to allocate the struct tty for each vty, rather than
statically declaring an array of struct tty. We still need a statically
allocated struct tty for the first vty which is used for the kernel
console I/O, though.
- Likewise, call ttymalloc() for /dev/sysmouse and /dev/consolectl.
- Delete unnecessary test on the pointer struct tty *tp in some functions.
- Delete unused code in scmouse.c.
WARNING: this change requires you to recompile screen savers!
users have suffered from this breakage, w/o commitment from someone that
they would fix the problems.
This effectively backs out revs 1.{157-160}. It does however fix the
build problem that caused 1.157 to be committed.
If the changes from rev 1.156-1.160 can't be fully tested by the
committer, may I offer posting a diff in the freebsd-current mailing
list for broader testing before inflicting this breakage again.
