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
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
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
text there was so much outdated that it required a complete
rewrite even for inet.4, not mentioning inet6.4. There is
no reason to keep it in the manual page.
selection in snd_hda(4) driver.
Now driver tracks jack presence detection status for every CODEC pin. For
playback associations, when configured, that information, same as before,
can be used to automatically redirect audio to headphones. Also same as
before, these events are used to track digital display connection status
and fetch ELD. Now in addition to that driver uses that information to
automatically switch recording source of the mixer to the connected input.
When there are devices with no jack detection and with one both connected,
last ones will have the precedence. As result, on most laptops after boot
internal microphone should be automatically selected. But if external one
(for example, headset) connected, it will be selected automatically.
When external mic disconnected, internal one will be selected again.
Automatic recording source selection is enabled by default now to make
recording work out of the box without touching mixer. But it can be
disabled or limited only to attach time using hint.pcm.X.rec.autosrc loader
tunables or dev.pcm.X.rec.autosrc sysctls.
MFC after: 2 months
Sponsored by: iXsystems, Inc.
- Huge old hdac driver was split into three independent pieces: HDA
controller driver (hdac), HDA CODEC driver (hdacc) and HDA sudio function
driver (hdaa).
- Support for multichannel recording was added. Now, as specification
defines, driver checks input associations for pins with sequence numbers
14 and 15, and if found (usually) -- works as before, mixing signals
together. If it doesn't, it configures input association as multichannel.
- Signal tracer was improved to look for cases where several DACs/ADCs in
CODEC can work with the same audio signal. If such case found, driver
registers additional playback/record stream (channel) for the pcm device.
- New controller streams reservation mechanism was implemented. That
allows to have more pcm devices then streams supported by the controller
(usually 4 in each direction). Now it limits only number of simultaneously
transferred audio streams, that is rarely reachable and properly reported
if happens.
- Codec pins and GPIO signals configuration was exported via set of
writable sysctls. Another sysctl dev.hdaa.X.reconfig allows to trigger
driver reconfiguration in run-time.
- Driver now decodes pins location and connector type names. In some cases
it allows to hint user where on the system case connectors, related to the
pcm device, are located. Number of channels supported by pcm device,
reported now (if it is not 2), should also make search easier.
- Added workaround for digital mic on some Asus laptops/netbooks.
MFC after: 2 months
Sponsored by: iXsystems, Inc.
