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.
- Remove all attempts to guess physical temperature using DiodeOffset.
There are too many reports that it varies wildly depending on motherboard.
Instead, if it is known to scale well and its offset is known from other
temperature sensors on board, the user may set "dev.amdtemp.0.sensor_offset"
tunable to compensate the difference. Document the caveats in amdtemp(4).
- Add a quirk for Socket AM2 Revision G processors. These processors are
known to have a different offset according to Linux k8temp driver.
- Warn about Family 10h Erratum 319. These processors have broken sensors.
- Report temperature in more logical orders under dev.amdtemp node. For
example, "dev.amdtemp.0.sensor0.core0" is now "dev.amdtemp.0.core0.sensor0".
- Replace K8, K10 and K11 with official processor names in amdtemp(4).
- Convert to our standard SYNOPSIS language
- Consistently use "The .Nm driver"
- Rewrite .nf .fi block with mdoc
- Add pci dependency to SYNOPSIS
- Start .Bl list with new paragraph
Approved by: luigi
Extend the so far IPv4-only support for multiple routing tables (FIBs)
introduced in r178888 to IPv6 providing feature parity.
This includes an extended rtalloc(9) KPI for IPv6, the necessary
adjustments to the network stack, and user land support as in netstat.
Sponsored by: Cisco Systems, Inc.
Reviewed by: melifaro (basically)
MFC after: 10 days
1. Add new functionality to the force_depend method to incorporate the
tests for whether the service is enabled and/or already running.
2. Add a new option to bypass checking only that the service is enabled
at boot time, and always check if it is running.
3. Use this new functionality to greatly simplify the rc.d scripts that
use force_depend.
4. Add a force_depend for statd in lockd
5. Remove the check that either nfs_server or nfs_client is _enable'd
from statd and lockd. This was always overkill, and prevented using
the {one|force}start options, as well as stop'ing on the command line.
6. The yp* scripts had some of their arguments in various weird orders.
Bring them into line with the model.
7. If mountd fails to create /var/db/mountdtab, err out.
Ideas, suggestions, and/or review from delphij and jilles.
Pointy hats are completely my responsibility however.
The reasoning behind this, is that if we are consistent in our
documentation about the uint*_t stuff, people will be less tempted to
write new code that uses the non-standard types.
I am not going to bump the man page dates, as these changes can be
considered style nits. The meaning of the man pages is unaffected.
MFC after: 1 month
Add support for updating the devfs mount (currently only changing the
ruleset number is supported).
Check mnt_optnew with vfs_filteropt(9).
This new option sets the specified ruleset number as the active ruleset
of the new devfs mount and applies all its rules at mount time. If the
specified ruleset doesn't exist, a new empty ruleset is created.
MFC after: 1 month
side effect of something else using them. If they haven't been loaded
already but you want to use them, say for configuring a jail, you're out
of luck.
So add a knob to always load the default rulesets. While I'm here document
the other devfs_ knobs in rc.conf.5.
This should have been included in change 230592.
The supported hardware section still needs some updating to reflect
the current reality.
MFC after: 3 days
TCP_KEEPCNT, that allow to control initial timeout, idle time, idle
re-send interval and idle send count on a per-socket basis.
Reviewed by: andre, bz, lstewart
share/man/man4/Makefile,
share/man/man4/xnb.4,
sys/dev/xen/netback/netback.c,
sys/dev/xen/netback/netback_unit_tests.c:
Rewrote the netback driver for xen to attach properly via newbus
and work properly in both HVM and PVM mode (only HVM is tested).
Works with the in-tree FreeBSD netfront driver or the Windows
netfront driver from SuSE. Has not been extensively tested with
a Linux netfront driver. Does not implement LRO, TSO, or
polling. Includes unit tests that may be run through sysctl
after compiling with XNB_DEBUG defined.
sys/dev/xen/blkback/blkback.c,
sys/xen/interface/io/netif.h:
Comment elaboration.
sys/kern/uipc_mbuf.c:
Fix page fault in kernel mode when calling m_print() on a
null mbuf. Since m_print() is only used for debugging, there
are no performance concerns for extra error checking code.
sys/kern/subr_scanf.c:
Add the "hh" and "ll" width specifiers from C99 to scanf().
A few callers were already using "ll" even though scanf()
was handling it as "l".
Submitted by: Alan Somers <alans@spectralogic.com>
Submitted by: John Suykerbuyk <johns@spectralogic.com>
Sponsored by: Spectra Logic
MFC after: 1 week
Reviewed by: ken
