Old scrolls tell that once upon a time IBM AT BIOS was known to put some
useful system diagnostic information into RTC NVRAM. It is not really
known if and for how long PC BIOSes followed that convention, but I
believe that many, if not all, modern BIOSes do not do that any more
(not mentioning other types of x86 firmware).
Some diagnostic bits don't even make any sense any longer.
The check results in confusing messages upon boot on some systems.
So I am removing it.
Discussed with: bde, jhb, mav
MFC after: 3 weeks
Move debug.ncnegfactor to vfs.ncnegfactor [1].
Provide some descriptions for the namecache related sysctls [1].
Based on the submission by: Rogier R. Mulhuijzen <drwilco drwilco net> [1]
MFC after: 2 weeks
X-MFC-note: remove debug.ncnegfactor in HEAD after MFC
too coarse grained to be useful and the default value significantly degrades TCP
performance on moderate to high bandwidth-delay product paths with non-zero loss
(e.g. 5+Mbps connections across the public Internet often suffer).
Replace the outgoing mechanism with an individual per-queue limit based on the
number of MSS segments that fit into the socket's receive buffer. This should
strike a good balance between performance and the potential for resource
exhaustion when FreeBSD is acting as a TCP receiver. With socket buffer
autotuning (which is enabled by default), the reassembly queue tracks the
socket buffer and benefits too.
As the XXX comment suggests, my testing uncovered some unexpected behaviour
which requires further investigation. By using so->so_rcv.sb_hiwat
instead of sbspace(&so->so_rcv), we allow more segments to be held across both
the socket receive buffer and reassembly queue than we probably should. The
tradeoff is better performance in at least one common scenario, versus a devious
sender's ability to consume more resources on a FreeBSD receiver.
Sponsored by: FreeBSD Foundation
Reviewed by: andre, gnn, rpaulo
MFC after: 2 weeks
"net.inet.tcp.reass.maxsegments" sysctl variables to be based on UMA zone
stats. The value returned by the cursegments sysctl is approximate owing to
the way in which uma_zone_get_cur is implemented.
- Discontinue use of V_tcp_reass_qsize as a global reassembly segment count
variable in the reassembly implementation. The variable was used without
proper synchronisation and was duplicating accounting done by UMA already. The
lack of synchronisation was particularly problematic on SMP systems
terminating many TCP sessions, resulting in poor TCP performance for
connections with non-zero packet loss.
Sponsored by: FreeBSD Foundation
Reviewed by: andre, gnn, rpaulo (as part of a larger patch)
MFC after: 2 weeks
rounding. The same value can also be obtained with uma_zone_get_max, but this
change avoids a caller having to make two back-to-back calls.
Sponsored by: FreeBSD Foundation
Reviewed by: gnn, jhb
- Add uma_zone_get_cur which returns the current approximate occupancy of
a zone. This is useful for providing stats via sysctl amongst other things.
Sponsored by: FreeBSD Foundation
Reviewed by: gnn, jhb
MFC after: 2 weeks
the NIC drivers as well as the PHY drivers to take advantage of the
mii_attach() introduced in r213878 to get rid of certain hacks. For
the most part these were:
- Artificially limiting miibus_{read,write}reg methods to certain PHY
addresses; we now let mii_attach() only probe the PHY at the desired
address(es) instead.
- PHY drivers setting MIIF_* flags based on the NIC driver they hang
off from, partly even based on grabbing and using the softc of the
parent; we now pass these flags down from the NIC to the PHY drivers
via mii_attach(). This got us rid of all such hacks except those of
brgphy() in combination with bce(4) and bge(4), which is way beyond
what can be expressed with simple flags.
While at it, I took the opportunity to change the NIC drivers to pass
up the error returned by mii_attach() (previously by mii_phy_probe())
and unify the error message used in this case where and as appropriate
as mii_attach() actually can fail for a number of reasons, not just
because of no PHY(s) being present at the expected address(es).
This file was missed in r213893.
PowerMac7,2.
- The fcu driver lets us read and write the fan RPMs for all fans in the
PowerMac7,2. This driver is PowerMac specific.
- The ds1775 is a driver to read the temperature for the drive bay sensor.
- The max6690 is another driver to read temperatures. Here it is used to
read the inlet, the backside and the U3 heatsink temperature.
An additional driver, the ad7417, will follow later.
Thanks to nwhitehorn for guiding me through this driver development.
Approved by: nwhitehorn (mentor)
use pmap_extract() rather than pmap_kextract() on direct map addresses.
Thus, pmap_extract() needs to be able to deal with 1GB page mappings if
we are to use 1GB page mappings for the direct map. (See r197580.)
the NIC drivers as well as the PHY drivers to take advantage of the
mii_attach() introduced in r213878 to get rid of certain hacks. For
the most part these were:
- Artificially limiting miibus_{read,write}reg methods to certain PHY
addresses; we now let mii_attach() only probe the PHY at the desired
address(es) instead.
- PHY drivers setting MIIF_* flags based on the NIC driver they hang
off from, partly even based on grabbing and using the softc of the
parent; we now pass these flags down from the NIC to the PHY drivers
via mii_attach(). This got us rid of all such hacks except those of
brgphy() in combination with bce(4) and bge(4), which is way beyond
what can be expressed with simple flags.
While at it, I took the opportunity to change the NIC drivers to pass
up the error returned by mii_attach() (previously by mii_phy_probe())
and unify the error message used in this case where and as appropriate
as mii_attach() actually can fail for a number of reasons, not just
because of no PHY(s) being present at the expected address(es).
Reviewed by: jhb, yongari
and why. The first case is correct usage which has but one correct output.
The 2nd and 3rd cases are incorrect usage in which the exact output is
not standardized and various shells give various allowable output.
- fix the leak of command struct on error
- simplify the cleanup logic
- EINPROGRESS is not a fatal error
- buggy comment and error message
Reviewed by: ken
replace mii_phy_probe() altogether. Compared to the latter the advantages
of mii_attach() are:
- intended to be called multiple times in order to attach PHYs in multiple
passes (f.e. in order to only use sub-ranges of the 0 to MII_NPHY - 1
range)
- being able to pass along the capability mask from the NIC to the PHY
drivers
- being able to specify at which address (phyloc) to probe for a PHY
(instead of always probing at all addresses from 0 to MII_NPHY - 1)
- being able to specify which PHY instance (offloc) to attach
- being able to pass along MIIF_* flags from the NIC to the PHY drivers
(f.e. as required to indicated to the PHY drivers that flow control is
supported by the NIC driver, which actually is the motivation for this
change).
While at it, I used the opportunity to get rid of some hacks in mii(4)
like miibus_probe() generally doing work besides sheer probing and the
"EVIL HACK" (which will vanish entirely along with mii_phy_probe()) by
passing the struct ifnet pointer via an argument of mii_attach() as well
as to fix some resource leaks in mii(4) in case something fails.
Commits which will update the PHY drivers to honor the MII flags passed
down from the NIC drivers and take advantage of mii_attach() to get rid
of certain types of hacks in NIC and PHY drivers as well as a conversion
of the remaining uses of mii_phy_probe() will follow shortly.
Reviewed by: jhb, yongari
Obtained from: NetBSD (partially)
what is done on other platforms. Unlike as with the sched_throw(NULL)
called on BSPs during their startup apparently there's nothing which will
reliably lower it on APs. I'm unsure why this only came up on V215 though,
breaking these with r207248. My best guess is that these are the only
supported ones so far fast enough to loose some race.
PR: 151404
MFC after: 3 days
proper solution which is to not use the TERMINATE pointer, but rather
link to a halted TD. The initial fix was due to a misunderstanding
about how the EHCI hardware works. Thanks to Alan Stern for clearing
this up. This patch can increase mass storage read performance
significantly when the IRQ rate is less than 8000 IRQ/s.
Approved by: thompsa (mentor)
* libusb_strerror()
* libusb_get_driver[_np]()
* libusb_detach_kernel_driver[_np]()
- Factor out setting of non-blocking flag inside libusb.
- Add missing NULL check after libusb_get_device() call.
- Correct some wrong error codes due to copy and paste error.
PR: usb/150546
Submitted by: Robert Jenssen, Alexander Leidinger
Approved by: thompsa (mentor)
header parser uses m_pullup(9) to get access to mbuf chain.
m_pullup(9) can allocate new mbuf chain and free old one if the
space left in the mbuf chain is not enough to hold requested
contiguous bytes. Previously drivers can use stale ip/tcp header
pointer if m_pullup(9) returned new mbuf chain.
Reported by: Andrew Boyer (aboyer <> averesystems dot com)
MFC after: 10 days
port such that reading station address from second port always
returned 0xFF:0xFF:0xFF:0xFF:0xFF:0xFF Unfortunately it seems there
is no easy way to know whether SROM is shared or not. Workaround
the issue by traversing dc(4) device list and see whether we're
using second port and use station address of controller 0 as base
station address of second port.
PR: kern/79262
MFC after: 2 weeks
