- Add optimizing LRO wrapper which pre-sorts all incoming packets
according to the hash type and flowid. This prevents exhaustion of
the LRO entries due to too many connections at the same time.
Testing using a larger number of higher bandwidth TCP connections
showed that the incoming ACK packet aggregation rate increased from
~1.3:1 to almost 3:1. Another test showed that for a number of TCP
connections greater than 16 per hardware receive ring, where 8 TCP
connections was the LRO active entry limit, there was a significant
improvement in throughput due to being able to fully aggregate more
than 8 TCP stream. For very few very high bandwidth TCP streams, the
optimizing LRO wrapper will add CPU usage instead of reducing CPU
usage. This is expected. Network drivers which want to use the
optimizing LRO wrapper needs to call "tcp_lro_queue_mbuf()" instead
of "tcp_lro_rx()" and "tcp_lro_flush_all()" instead of
"tcp_lro_flush()". Further the LRO control structure must be
initialized using "tcp_lro_init_args()" passing a non-zero number
into the "lro_mbufs" argument.
- Make LRO statistics 64-bit. Previously 32-bit integers were used for
statistics which can be prone to wrap-around. Fix this while at it
and update all SYSCTL's which expose LRO statistics.
- Ensure all data is freed when destroying a LRO control structures,
especially leftover LRO entries.
- Reduce number of memory allocations needed when setting up a LRO
control structure by precomputing the total amount of memory needed.
- Add own memory allocation counter for LRO.
- Bump the FreeBSD version to force recompilation of all KLDs due to
change of the LRO control structure size.
Sponsored by: Mellanox Technologies
Reviewed by: gallatin, sbruno, rrs, gnn, transport
Tested by: Netflix
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D4914
This helps immensily with our ability to operate in the Amazon Cloud.
Discussed on Intel Networking Community call this morning.
Submitted by: Jarrod Petz(petz@nisshoko.net)
MFC after: 2 weeks
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D4788
Add support for two new devices: X552 SFP+ 10 GbE, and the single port
version of X550T.
Submitted by: erj
Reviewed by: gnn
Sponsored by: Intel Corporation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D4186
an if_ixv instance can now set at creation time, and the receive ring
tail pointer is correctly initialized (previously, things still worked
because the receive ring tail pointer was being fixed up as a side
effect of other activity).
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D2922
Reviewed by: erj, gnn
Approved by: jmallett (mentor)
Sponsored by: Norse Corp, Inc.
NOTE: This is a technology preview, while it has undergone
development testing, Intel has not yet completed full
validation of the feature. It is being integrated for
early access and customer testing.
NOTE: This is a technology preview, while it has undergone development
tests, Intel has not yet completed full validation of the feature.
It is being integrated for early access and customer testing.
These include standalone X550 adapters, X552 10GbE backplane, and
X552/X557-AT 10GBASE-T; with the latter two being integrated into Xeon D SoCs.
As well, this bumps the ixgbe version number to 2.8.3, and includes updates
to shared code for support for the new devices.
Differential Revision: D2414
Reviewed by: gnn, adrian
Approved by: jfv (mentor), gnn (mentor)
* Fix the multiple same-named devclasses; the duplicate name
trips up the linker.
* Re-do the taskqueue stuff to use the new cpuset API, not the old
pinned API.
* Add includes for the new location of the RSS configuration routines.
This allows ixgbe to compile as a module /and/ linked into the kernel,
along with RSS working.
Sponsored by: Norse Corp, Inc.
- 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
