Mostly bugfixes or features developed in the past 6 months,
so this is a 10.1 candidate.
Basically no user API changes (some bugfixes in sys/net/netmap_user.h).
In detail:
1. netmap support for virtio-net, including in netmap mode.
Under bhyve and with a netmap backend [2] we reach over 1Mpps
with standard APIs (e.g. libpcap), and 5-8 Mpps in netmap mode.
2. (kernel) add support for multiple memory allocators, so we can
better partition physical and virtual interfaces giving access
to separate users. The most visible effect is one additional
argument to the various kernel functions to compute buffer
addresses. All netmap-supported drivers are affected, but changes
are mechanical and trivial
3. (kernel) simplify the prototype for *txsync() and *rxsync()
driver methods. All netmap drivers affected, changes mostly mechanical.
4. add support for netmap-monitor ports. Think of it as a mirroring
port on a physical switch: a netmap monitor port replicates traffic
present on the main port. Restrictions apply. Drive carefully.
5. if_lem.c: support for various paravirtualization features,
experimental and disabled by default.
Most of these are described in our ANCS'13 paper [1].
Paravirtualized support in netmap mode is new, and beats the
numbers in the paper by a large factor (under qemu-kvm,
we measured gues-host throughput up to 10-12 Mpps).
A lot of refactoring and additional documentation in the files
in sys/dev/netmap, but apart from #2 and #3 above, almost nothing
of this stuff is visible to other kernel parts.
Example programs in tools/tools/netmap have been updated with bugfixes
and to support more of the existing features.
This is meant to go into 10.1 so we plan an MFC before the Aug.22 deadline.
A lot of this code has been contributed by my colleagues at UNIPI,
including Giuseppe Lettieri, Vincenzo Maffione, Stefano Garzarella.
MFC after: 3 days.
not done after the call to m_defrag(). This fixes a problem
where m_pullup() would prepend an mbuf to the list created
by m_defrag() making the chain greater than 32 again.
Tested by: rcarter@pinyon.org
Reviewed by: yongari, jfv
MFC after: 2 weeks
The igb(4) hardware is capable of RSS hashing RX packets and doing RSS
queue selection for up to 8 queues. (I believe some hardware is limited
to 4 queues, but I haven't tested on that.)
However, even if multi-queue is enabled for igb(4), the RX path doesn't use
the RSS flowid from the received descriptor. It just uses the MSIX queue id.
This patch does a handful of things if RSS is enabled:
* Instead of using a random key at boot, fetch the RSS key from the RSS code
and program that in to the RSS redirection table.
That whole chunk of code should be double checked for endian correctness.
* Use the RSS queue mapping to CPU ID to figure out where to thread pin
the RX swi thread and the taskqueue threads for each queue.
* The software queue is now really an "RSS bucket".
* When programming the RSS indirection table, use the RSS code to
figure out which RSS bucket each slot in the indirection table maps
to.
* When transmitting, use the flowid RSS mapping if the mbuf has
an RSS aware hash. The existing method wasn't guaranteed to align
correctly with the destination RSS bucket (and thus CPU ID.)
This code warns if the number of RSS buckets isn't the same as the
automatically configured number of hardware queues. The administrator
will have to tweak one of them for better performance.
There's currently no way to re-balance the RSS indirection table after
startup. I'll worry about that later.
Additionally, it may be worthwhile to always use the full 32 bit flowid if
multi-queue is enabled. It'll make things like lagg(4) behave better with
respect to traffic distribution.
These changes prevent sysctl(8) from returning proper output,
such as:
1) no output from sysctl(8)
2) erroneously returning ENOMEM with tools like truss(1)
or uname(1)
truss: can not get etype: Cannot allocate memory
there is an environment variable which shall initialize the SYSCTL
during early boot. This works for all SYSCTL types both statically and
dynamically created ones, except for the SYSCTL NODE type and SYSCTLs
which belong to VNETs. A new flag, CTLFLAG_NOFETCH, has been added to
be used in the case a tunable sysctl has a custom initialisation
function allowing the sysctl to still be marked as a tunable. The
kernel SYSCTL API is mostly the same, with a few exceptions for some
special operations like iterating childrens of a static/extern SYSCTL
node. This operation should probably be made into a factored out
common macro, hence some device drivers use this. The reason for
changing the SYSCTL API was the need for a SYSCTL parent OID pointer
and not only the SYSCTL parent OID list pointer in order to quickly
generate the sysctl path. The motivation behind this patch is to avoid
parameter loading cludges inside the OFED driver subsystem. Instead of
adding special code to the OFED driver subsystem to post-load tunables
into dynamically created sysctls, we generalize this in the kernel.
Other changes:
- Corrected a possibly incorrect sysctl name from "hw.cbb.intr_mask"
to "hw.pcic.intr_mask".
- Removed redundant TUNABLE statements throughout the kernel.
- Some minor code rewrites in connection to removing not needed
TUNABLE statements.
- Added a missing SYSCTL_DECL().
- Wrapped two very long lines.
- Avoid malloc()/free() inside sysctl string handling, in case it is
called to initialize a sysctl from a tunable, hence malloc()/free() is
not ready when sysctls from the sysctl dataset are registered.
- Bumped FreeBSD version to indicate SYSCTL API change.
MFC after: 2 weeks
Sponsored by: Mellanox Technologies
NULL to determine if bus_dmamap_unload() or bus_dmamem_free() should be
called. Instead, check the associated bus and virtual addresses.
- Don't clear static DMA maps to NULL.
Reviewed by: jfv
Most relevant features:
- netmap emulation on any NIC, even those without native netmap support.
On the ixgbe we have measured about 4Mpps/core/queue in this mode,
which is still a lot more than with sockets/bpf.
- seamless interconnection of VALE switch, NICs and host stack.
If you disable accelerations on your NIC (say em0)
ifconfig em0 -txcsum -txcsum
you can use the VALE switch to connect the NIC and the host stack:
vale-ctl -h valeXX:em0
allowing sharing the NIC with other netmap clients.
- THE USER API HAS SLIGHTLY CHANGED (head/cur/tail pointers
instead of pointers/count as before). This was unavoidable to support,
in the future, multiple threads operating on the same rings.
Netmap clients require very small source code changes to compile again.
On the plus side, the new API should be easier to understand
and the internals are a lot simpler.
The manual page has been updated extensively to reflect the current
features and give some examples.
This is the result of work of several people including Giuseppe Lettieri,
Vincenzo Maffione, Michio Honda and myself, and has been financially
supported by EU projects CHANGE and OPENLAB, from NetApp University
Research Fund, NEC, and of course the Universita` di Pisa.
shifts into the sign bit. Instead use (1U << 31) which gets the
expected result.
This fix is not ideal as it assumes a 32 bit int, but does fix the issue
for most cases.
A similar change was made in OpenBSD.
Discussed with: -arch, rdivacky
Reviewed by: cperciva
The problems do not affect bouncing busdma in a visible way, but are
critical for the dmar backend.
- The bus_dmamap_create(9) is not documented to take BUS_DMA_NOWAIT flag.
- Unload descriptor map after receive.
- Do not reset descriptor map to NULL, bus_dmamap_load(9) requires
valid map, and also this leaks the map.
Reported and tested by: pho
Approved by: jfv
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 2 weeks
This includes the following:
- use separate memory regions for VALE ports
- locking fixes
- some simplifications in the NIC-specific routines
- performance improvements for the VALE switch
- some new features in the pkt-gen test program
- documentation updates
There are small API changes that require programs to be recompiled
(NETMAP_API has been bumped so you will detect old binaries at runtime).
In particular:
- struct netmap_slot now is 16 bytes to support an extra pointer,
which may save one data copy when using VALE ports or VMs;
- the struct netmap_if has two extra fields;
MFC after: 3 days
to this event, adding if_var.h to files that do need it. Also, include
all includes that now are included due to implicit pollution via if_var.h
Sponsored by: Netflix
Sponsored by: Nginx, Inc.
- This version has support for the new Intel Avoton systems,
including 2.5Gb support, further it now has IPv6/TSO6 support as
well. Shared code has been updated where necessary as well. Thanks
to my new assistant Eric Joyner for doing the transmit path changes
to bring in the IPv6/TSO6 support. Thanks to Gleb for catching the
one bug and change needed in NETMAP.
Approved by: re
Device level sysctls are already exposed as dev.ix.<device>
Fixing the case where number of queues for igb is auto-tuned and
hw.igb.num_queues does not return current/updated value.
Reviewed by: jfv
Approved by: re (delphij)
MFC after: 2 weeks
features. The changes in particular are:
o Remove rarely used "header" pointer and replace it with a 64bit protocol/
layer specific union PH_loc for local use. Protocols can flexibly overlay
their own 8 to 64 bit fields to store information while the packet is
worked on.
o Mechanically convert IP reassembly, IGMP/MLD and ATM to use pkthdr.PH_loc
instead of pkthdr.header.
o Extend csum_flags to 64bits to allow for additional future offload
information to be carried (e.g. iSCSI, IPsec offload, and others).
o Move the RSS hash type enumerator from abusing m_flags to its own 8bit
rsstype field. Adjust accessor macros.
o Add cosqos field to store Class of Service / Quality of Service information
with the packet. It is not yet supported in any drivers but allows us to
get on par with Cisco/Juniper in routing applications (plus MPLS QoS) with
a modernized ALTQ.
o Add four 8 bit fields l[2-5]hlen to store the relative header offsets
from the start of the packet. This is important for various offload
capabilities and to relieve the drivers from having to parse the packet
and protocol headers to find out location of checksums and other
information. Header parsing in drivers is a lot of copy-paste and
unhandled corner cases which we want to avoid.
o Add another flexible 64bit union to map various additional persistent
packet information, like ether_vtag, tso_segsz and csum fields.
Depending on the csum_flags settings some fields may have different usage
making it very flexible and adaptable to future capabilities.
o Restructure the CSUM flags to better signify their outbound (down the
stack) and inbound (up the stack) use. The CSUM flags used to be a bit
chaotic and rather poorly documented leading to incorrect use in many
places. Bring clarity into their use through better naming.
Compatibility mappings are provided to preserve the API. The drivers
can be corrected one by one and MFC'd without issue.
o The size of pkthdr stays the same at 48/56bytes (32/64bit architectures).
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
rather than just queueing. The former code was an attempt at getting
UDP performance up, but there have been customer reports of problems with it,
so the ixgbe approach seems the best solution for now.
command register. The lazy BAR allocation code in FreeBSD sometimes
disables this bit when it detects a range conflict, and will re-enable
it on demand when a driver allocates the BAR. Thus, the bit is no longer
a reliable indication of capability, and should not be checked. This
results in the elimination of a lot of code from drivers, and also gives
the opportunity to simplify a lot of drivers to use a helper API to set
the busmaster enable bit.
This changes fixes some recent reports of disk controllers and their
associated drives/enclosures disappearing during boot.
Submitted by: jhb
Reviewed by: jfv, marius, achadd, achim
MFC after: 1 day
the changes. Make sure that pci_alloc_msix() does give us the vectors
we need and fall back to MSI when it doesn't, also release any that
were allocated when insufficient.
MFC after: 3 days
ixgbe driver. As it was, when building them as a module INET
and INET6 are not defined. In these drivers it does not cause
a panic, however it does result in different behavior in the
ioctl routine when you are using a module vs static, and I
think the behavior should be the same.
MFC after: 3 days
irrespective of the setting of lem_rx_process_limit, while
giving a chance to the taskqueue scheduler to act after
each chunk.
This makes lem_rxeof similar to the one in if_em.c and if_igb.c .
if_lem.c and if_em.c: add a sysctl to manually configure the
'itr' moderation register.
Approved by: Jack Vogel
well as enabled when necessary. And simplify the checksum routine
itself, adding UDP bit to the test. Thanks to Kevin Lo for pointing
out the problems and code suggestions.
done in ixgbe, thanks to Mike Karels for this fix. When exiting
promiscuous mode MPE bit was being unconditionally cleared, this
should not be done if we are in MAX multicast groups.
the older if_start/non-multiqueue interface from the stack. This
is not the default, but can be turned on in the Makefile now regardless
of the OS level to allow either testing or use of ALTQ.
MFC after: one week
- bear with me, there are lots of white space changes, I would not
do them, but I am a mere consumer of this stuff and if these drivers
are to stay in shape they need to be taken.
em driver changes: support for the new i217/i218 interfaces
igb driver changes:
- TX mq start has a quick turnaround to the stack
- Link/media handling improvement
- When link status changes happen the current flow control state
will now be displayed.
- A few white space/style changes.
lem driver changes:
- the shared code uncovered a bogus write to the RLPML register
(which does not exist in this hardware) in the vlan code,this
is removed.
of the newer drivers. The basic problem was
that the driver was pulling the mbuf off the
drbr ring and then when sending with xmit(), encounting
a full transmit ring. Thus the lower layer
xmit() function would return an error, and the
drivers would then append the data back on to the ring.
For TCP this is a horrible scenario sure to bring
on a fast-retransmit.
The fix is to use drbr_peek() to pull the data pointer
but not remove it from the ring. If it fails then
we either call the new drbr_putback or drbr_advance
method. Advance moves it forward (we do this sometimes
when the xmit() function frees the mbuf). When
we succeed we always call advance. The
putback will always copy the mbuf back to the top
of the ring. Note that the putback *cannot* be used
with a drbr_dequeue() only with drbr_peek(). We most
of the time, in putback, would not need to copy it
back since most likey the mbuf is still the same, but
sometimes xmit() functions will change the mbuf via
a pullup or other call. So the optimial case for
the single consumer is to always copy it back. If
we ever do a multiple_consumer (for lagg?) we
will need a test and atomic in the put back possibly
a seperate putback_mc() in the ring buf.
Reviewed by: jhb@freebsd.org, jlv@freebsd.org
This prevents quad igb card on high core machines, without any nmbcluster or
igb queue tuning wedging the boot process if all nics are configured.
Reviewed by: jfv
Approved by: pjd (mentor)
MFC after: 1 week
fail or not. The mbuf pointer is no longer valid, so
can't be reused after.
Fix igb_mq_start() where mbuf pointer was used after
drbr_enqueue().
This eventually leads us to all invocations of
igb_mq_start_locked() called with third argument as NULL.
This allows us to simplify this function.
Submitted by: Karim Fodil-Lemelin <fodillemlinkarim gmail.com>
Reviewed by: jfv
device drivers that used to provide this feature.
This is a subset of 241856 (which was reverted)
Reviewed by: des
Approved by: cperciva (implicit)
MFC after: 1 week
tree used it incorrectly, which lead to inaccurate overrated
if_obytes accounting. The drbr(9) used to update ifnet stats on
drbr_enqueue(), which is not accurate since enqueuing doesn't
imply successful processing by driver. Dequeuing neither mean
that. Most drivers also called drbr_stats_update() which did
accounting again, leading to doubled if_obytes statistics. And
in case of severe transmitting, when a packet could be several
times enqueued and dequeued it could have been accounted several
times.
o Thus, make drbr(9) API thinner. Now drbr(9) merely chooses between
ALTQ queueing or buf_ring(9) queueing.
- It doesn't touch the buf_ring stats any more.
- It doesn't touch ifnet stats anymore.
- drbr_stats_update() no longer exists.
o buf_ring(9) handles its stats itself:
- It handles br_drops itself.
- br_prod_bytes stats are dropped. Rationale: no one ever
reads them but update of a common counter on every packet
negatively affects performance due to excessive cache
invalidation.
- buf_ring_enqueue_bytes() reduced to buf_ring_enqueue(), since
we no longer account bytes.
o Drivers handle their stats theirselves: if_obytes, if_omcasts.
o mlx4(4), igb(4), em(4), vxge(4), oce(4) and ixv(4) no longer
use drbr_stats_update(), and update ifnet stats theirselves.
o bxe(4) was the most correct driver, it didn't call
drbr_stats_update(), thus it was the only driver accurate under
moderate load. Now it also maintains stats itself.
o ixgbe(4) had already taken stats from hardware, so just
- drop software stats updating.
- take multicast packet count from hardware as well.
o mxge(4) just no longer needs NO_SLOW_STATS define.
o cxgb(4), cxgbe(4) need no change, since they obtain stats
from hardware.
Reviewed by: jfv, gnn
- Use a dedicated task to handle deferred transmits from the if_transmit
method instead of reusing the existing per-queue interrupt task.
Reusing the per-queue interrupt task could result in both an interrupt
thread and the taskqueue thread trying to handle received packets on a
single queue resulting in out-of-order packet processing and lock
contention.
- Don't define ixgbe_start() at all where if_transmit is used.
Tested by: Vijay Singh
Reviewed by: jfv
MFC after: 2 weeks
adapter->dropped_pkts instead of if_ierrors because if_ierrors is
overwritten by hw stats collection.
Submitted by: Andrew Boyer <aboyer@averesystems.com>
Reviewed by: Jack F Vogel <jfv@freebsd.org>
MFC after: 2 weeks
#defines. This also has the advantage that it makes the names more
compact, iand also allows us to correct the non-uniform naming of
the PCIM_LINK_* defines, making them all consistent amongst themselves.
This is a mostly mechanical rename:
s/PCIR_EXPRESS_/PCIER_/g
s/PCIM_EXP_/PCIEM_/g
s/PCIM_LINK_/PCIEM_LINK_/g
When this is MFC'd, #defines will be added for the old names to assist
out-of-tree drivers.
Discussed with: jhb
MFC after: 1 week
"m_getjcl:invalid cluster type" that occurred some
time back with the igb driver. This happens often when
booting over the net. I believe the NIC hardware is left
in a warm state when handed over to the driver, and a stray
RX interrupt happens earlier than the code is prepared for
it to happen. This change was verified to fix the problem,
its kind of a bandaid... but it is similar to what was done
in the igb code.
packet delivery, always enqueue when possible. Also
correct the DEPLETED test as multiple bits might be
set. Thanks to Randall Stewart for the changes!
system with sparse CPU IDs, you can have a valid CPU ID > mp_ncpus (e.g. if
you have two CPUs 0 and 4, with mp_maxid == 4 and mp_ncpus == 2).
Introduced at svn r235210
Submitted by: jhb@
Reviewed by: jfv@
when used in qemu (and this driver is for non-PCIe cards,
so probably its largest use is in virtualized environments).
Approved by: Jack Vogel
MFC after: 3 days
setting in the igb and em driver. This was necessitated by
a shared code change that I was given late in the game, a data
type changed from bool to int, in the last update I dealt with
it by a cast, but it was pointed out (thanks jhb) that there
was a potential problem with this. John suggested this safer
approach, and it is fine with me...
MFC after:2 days (to catch the 9.1 update)
shared code update and small changes in core required
Add support for new i210/i211 devices
Improve queue calculation based on mac type
MFC after:5 days
as possible when using more than one igb(4) adapter. This
means that queues will not be bound to the same CPUs if
there are more CPUs availble.
This is only applicable to a system that has multiple interfaces.
Obtained from: Yahoo! Inc.
MFC after: 3 days
portions were already reapplied in r233708:
- Use a dedicated task to handle deferred transmits from the if_transmit
method instead of reusing the existing per-queue interrupt task.
Reusing the per-queue interrupt task could result in both an interrupt
thread and the taskqueue thread trying to handle received packets on a
single queue resulting in out-of-order packet processing.
- Call ether_ifdetach() earlier in igb_detach().
- Drain tasks and free taskqueues during igb_detach().
MFC after: 1 week
- Do not define the foo_start() methods or set if_start in the ifnet if
multiq transmit is enabled. Also, set if_transmit and if_qflush before
ether_ifattach rather than after when multiq transmit is enabled. This
helps to ensure that the drivers never try to mix different transmit
methods.
- Properly restart transmit during resume. igb(4) was not restarting it
at all, and em(4) was restarting even if the link was down and was
calling the wrong method if multiq transmit was enabled.
- Remove all the 'more' handling for transmit completions. Transmit
completion processing does not have a processing limit, so it always
runs to completion and never has more work to do when it returns.
Instead, the previous code was returning 'true' anytime there were
packets in the queue that weren't still in the process of being
transmitted. The effect was that the driver would continuously
reschedule a task to process TX completions in effect running at 100%
CPU polling the hardware until it finished transmitting all of the
packets in the ring. Now it will just wait for the next TX completion
interrupt.
- Restart packet transmission when the link becomes active.
- Fix the MSI-X queue interrupt handlers to restart packet transmission if
there are pending packets in the relevant software queue (IFQ or buf_ring)
after processing TX completions. This is the root cause for the OACTIVE
hangs as if the MSI-X queue handler drained all the pending packets from
the TX ring, nothing would ever restart it. As such, remove some
previously-added workarounds to reschedule a task to poll the TX ring
anytime OACTIVE was set.
Tested by: sbruno
Reviewed by: jfv
MFC after: 1 week
order to avoid otherwise harmless witness warnings when these are acquired
at the same time and due to both using MTX_NETWORK_LOCK as their type.
The right fix actually would be to use different, descriptive types for
these. However, the latter would require undesirable changes to the shared
code base. Another approach would be to just supply NULL as the type, which
was deemed as less desirable though as it would cause the unique but cryptic
name also to be used for the type and to diverge from the type used by other
network device drivers.
MFC after: 1 week
USERSPACE:
1. add support for devices with different number of rx and tx queues;
2. add better support for zero-copy operation, adding an extra field
to the netmap ring to indicate how many buffers we have already processed
but not yet released (with help from Eddie Kohler);
3. The two changes above unfortunately require an API change, so while
at it add a version field and some spares to the ioctl() argument
to help detect mismatches.
4. update the manual page for the two changes above;
5. update sample applications in tools/tools/netmap
KERNEL:
1. simplify the internal structures moving the global wait queues
to the 'struct netmap_adapter';
2. simplify the functions that map kring<->nic ring indexes
3. normalize device-specific code, helps mainteinance;
4. start exploring the impact of micro-optimizations (prefetch etc.)
in the ixgbe driver.
Use 'legacy' descriptors on the tx ring and prefetch slots gives
about 20% speedup at 900 MHz. Another 7-10% would come from removing
the explict calls to bus_dmamap* in the core (they are effectively
NOPs in this case, but it takes expensive load of the per-buffer
dma maps to figure out that they are all NULL.
Rx performance not investigated.
I am postponing the MFC so i can import a few more improvements
before merging.
Introduce some functions to map NIC ring indexes into netmap ring
indexes and vice versa. This way we can implement the bound
checks only in one place (and hopefully in a correct way).
On passing, make the code and comments more uniform across the
various drivers.
the memory allocator used by netmap. No functional change,
two small bug fixes:
- in if_re.c add a missing bus_dmamap_sync()
- in netmap.c comment out a spurious free() in an error handling block
rings, copy the whole VLAN tag, not just the VLAN ID. This fixes a
problem in which VLAN priority information was dropped when using
offloaded VLAN processing with these drivers.
Discussed with: jfv, rrs
Sponsored by: ADARA Networks, Inc.
MFC after: 3 days
import:
- Add read-only sysctls for all of the tunables supported by the igb and
em drivers.
- Make the per-instance 'enable_aim' sysctl truly per-instance by having it
change a per-instance variable (which is used to control AIM) rather
than having all of the per-instance sysctls operate on a single global
variable.
While here, restore the previously existing hw.igb.rx_processing_limit
tunable as it is very useful to be able to set a default tunable that
applies to all adapters in the system.
- Two struct members eee_disable are used in a function that expects
an int *, so declare them int, not bool.
- igb_tx_ctx_setup() returns a boolean value, so declare it bool, not int.
- igb_header_split is passed to TUNABLE_INT, so delcare it int, not bool.
- igb_tso_setup() returns a bool, so declare it bool, not boolean_t.
- Do not re-define bool/true/false if the symbols already exist.
MFC after: 2 weeks
Sponsored by: Isilon Systems, LLC
There have still been intermittent problems with apparent TX
hangs for some customers. These have been problematic to reproduce
but I believe these changes will address them. Testing on a number
of fronts have been positive.
EM: there is an important 'chicken bit' fix for 82574 in the shared
code this is supported in the core here.
- The TX path has been tightened up to improve performance. In
particular UDP with jumbo frames was having problems, and the
changes here have improved that.
- OACTIVE has been used more carefully on the theory that some
hangs may be due to a problem in this interaction
- Problems with the RX init code, the "lazy" allocation and
ring initialization has been found to cause problems in some
newer client systems, and as it really is not that big a win
(its not in a hot path) it seems best to remove it.
- HWTSO was broken when VLAN HWTAGGING or HWFILTER is used, I
found this was due to an error in setting up the descriptors
in em_xmit.
IGB:
- TX is also improved here. With multiqueue I realized its very
important to handle OACTIVE only under the CORE lock so there
are no races between the queues.
- Flow Control handling was broken in a couple ways, I have changed
and I hope improved that in this delta.
- UDP also had a problem in the TX path here, it was change to
improve that.
- On some hardware, with the driver static, a weird stray interrupt
seems to sometimes fire and cause a panic in the RX mbuf refresh
code. This is addressed by setting interrupts late in the init
path, and also to set all interrupts bits off at the start of that.
support of new deltas for both em and igb drivers.
Note that I am not able to track all the bugs fixed in
this code, I am a consumer of it as a component of my
core drivers. It is important to keep the FreeBSD drivers
up to date with it however.
One important note is there is a key fix for 82574 in this
update. Also, there are lots of white space changes, I am
not happy about them but have no control over it :)
On my hardware, "em" in netmap mode does about 1.388 Mpps
on one card (on an Asus motherboard), and 1.1 Mpps on another
card (PCIe bus). Both seem to be NIC-limited, because
i have the same rate even with the CPU running at 150 MHz.
On the "re" driver the tx throughput is around 420-450 Kpps
on various (8111C and the like) chipsets. On the Rx side
performance seems much better, and i can receive the full
load generated by the "em" cards.
"igb" is untested as i don't have the hardware.
The SYSCTL_NODE macro defines a list that stores all child-elements of
that node. If there's no SYSCTL_DECL macro anywhere else, there's no
reason why it shouldn't be static.
initialization. Prior to this change packets may be transmitted with an
incorrect checksum.
Em(4) already has an equivalent change in r213234.
Obtained From: Sandvine
MFC After: 1 week
Approved by: re (bz)
em drivers.
- Make the per-instance 'enable_aim' sysctl truly per-instance by having it
change a per-instance variable (which is used to control AIM) rather
than having all of the per-instance sysctls operate on a single global
variable.
Reviewed by: jfv (earlier version)
MFC after: 1 week
