- Fixes from John Baldwin: vlan shadow tables made per/interface,
make vlan hw setup only happen when capability enabled, and
finally, make a tuneable interrupt rate. Thanks John!
- Tweaked watchdog handling to avoid any false positives, now
detection is in the TX clean path, with only the final check
and init happening in the local timer.
- limit queues to 8 for all devices, with 82576 or 82580 on
larger machines it can get greater than this, and it seems
mostly a resource waste to do so. Even 8 might be high but
it can be manually reduced.
- use 2k, 4k and now 9k clusters based on the MTU size.
- rework the igb_refresh_mbuf() code, its important to
make sure the descriptor is rewritten even when reusing
mbufs since writeback clobbers things.
MFC: in a few days, this delta needs to get to 8.2
- Sync shared code with Intel internal
- New client chipset support added
- em driver - fixes to 82574, limit queues to 1 but use MSIX
- em driver - large changes in TX checksum offload and tso
code, thanks to yongari.
- some small changes for watchdog issues.
- igb driver - local timer watchdog code was missing locking
this and a couple other watchdog related fixes.
- bug in rx discard found by Andrew Boyer, check for null pointer
MFC: a week
configuration function. For failed memory allocations, em(4)/lem(4)
called panic(9) which is not acceptable on production box.
igb(4)/ixgb(4)/ix(4) allocated the required memory in stack which
consumed 768 bytes of stack memory which looks too big.
To address these issues, allocate multicast array memory in device
attach time and make multicast configuration success under any
conditions. This change also removes the excessive use of memory in
stack.
Reviewed by: jfv
the core changes but left out the shared code, lol.
Well, and a couple fixes to the core... hopefully
this will all be complete now.
Happy happy joy joy :)
What this provides is support for the 'virtual function'
interface that a FreeBSD VM may be assigned from a host
like KVM on Linux, or newer versions of Xen with such
support.
When the guest is set up with the capability, a special
limited function 82576 PCI device is present in its virtual
PCI space, so with this driver installed in the guest that
device will be detected and function nearly like the bare
metal, as it were.
The interface is only allowed a single queue in this configuration
however initial performance tests have looked very good.
Enjoy!!
em revision 7.0.0:
- Using driver devclass, seperate legacy (pre-pcie) code
into a seperate source file. This will at least help
protect against regression issues. It compiles along
with em, and is transparent to end use, devices in each
appear to be 'emX'. When using em in a modular form this
also allows the legacy stuff to be defined out.
- Add tx and rx rings as in igb, in the 82574 this becomes
actual multiqueue for the first time (2 queues) while in
other PCIE adapters its just make code cleaner.
- Add RX mbuf handling logic that matches igb, this will
eliminate packet drops due to temporary mbuf shortage.
igb revision 1.9.3:
- Following the ixgbe code, use a new approach in what
was called 'get_buf', the routine now has been made
independent of rxeof, it now does the update to the
engine TDT register, this design allows temporary
mbuf resources to become non-critical, not requiring
a packet to be discarded, instead it just returns and
does not increment the tail pointer.
- With the above change it was also unnecessary to keep
'spare' maps around, since we do not have the discard
issue.
- Performance tweaks and improvements to the code also.
MFC in a week
igb now has a queue notion that has a single interrupt
with an RX/TX pair, this will reduce the total interrupts
seen on a system. Both em and igb have a new watchdog
method. igb has fixes from Pyun Yong-Hyeon that have
improved stability, thank you :)
I wish to MFC this for 7.3 asap, please test if able.
drivers. These add new hardware support, most importantly
the pch (i5 chipset) in the em driver. Also, both drivers
now have the simplified (and I hope improved) watchdog
code. The igb driver uses the new RX cleanup that I
first implemented in ixgbe.
em - version 6.9.24
igb - version 1.8.4
- changes in support of the VLAN filter fix to 126850
- removal of a bunch of legacy code that was cruft, if not
possibly harmful.
- removal of POLLING from this driver, with multiqueue and
MSIX it just makes no sense here.
- Fix an LRO bug that I've been working on internally, intermittent
panics under stress, the problem was releasing the RX ring lock
before the LRO flushing.
- Following the above fix I now enable LRO by default
- For performance reasons increase the default number of RX queues
to 4.
- Add AIM - "Adaptive Interrupt Moderation", a fancy way of saying
that the EITR value is dynamically changed based on the size of
packets in the last interrupt interval.
- Much goodness to try, enjoy!!
proved to be necessary to make the static drivers work
in EITHER/OR or BOTH configurations. Modules will still
build in sys/modules/igb or em as before.
This also updates the igb driver for support for the 82576
adapter, adds shared code fixes, and etc....
MFC after: ASAP
