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07-Dec-2013 |
gjb |
- Copy stable/10 (r259064) to releng/10.0 as part of the 10.0-RELEASE cycle. - Update __FreeBSD_version [1] - Set branch name to -RC1
[1] 10.0-CURRENT __FreeBSD_version value ended at '55', so start releng/10.0 at '100' so the branch is started with a value ending in zero.
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10-Oct-2013 |
gjb |
Copy head (r256279) to stable/10 as part of the 10.0-RELEASE cycle.
Approved by: re (implicit) Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
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30-May-2013 |
luigi |
clarify usage of NETMAP_BUF
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30-Apr-2013 |
luigi |
remove $Id$ (whitespace change)
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03-Oct-2012 |
emaste |
Cast through void * to silence compiler warning
The base netmap pointer and offsets involved are provided by the kernel side of the netmap interface and will have appropriate alignment.
Sponsored by: ADARA Networks MFC After: 2 weeks
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13-Apr-2012 |
luigi |
A bit of cleanup in the names of fields of netmap-related structures. Use the name 'ring' instead of 'queue' in all fields. Bump NETMAP_API.
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11-Mar-2012 |
luigi |
- remove an extra parenthesis in a closing brace; - add the macro NETMAP_RING_FIRST_RESERVED() which returns the index of the first non-released buffer in the ring (this is useful for code that retains buffers for some time instead of processing them immediately)
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27-Feb-2012 |
luigi |
A bunch of netmap fixes:
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.
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08-Feb-2012 |
luigi |
- change the buffer size from a constant to a TUNABLE variable (hw.netmap.buf_size) so we can experiment with values different from 2048 which may give better cache performance.
- rearrange the memory allocation code so it will be easier to replace it with a different implementation. The current code relies on a single large contiguous chunk of memory obtained through contigmalloc. The new implementation (not committed yet) uses multiple smaller chunks which are easier to fit in a fragmented address space.
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17-Nov-2011 |
luigi |
Bring in support for netmap, a framework for very efficient packet I/O from userspace, capable of line rate at 10G, see
http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/netmap/
At this time I am bringing in only the generic code (sys/dev/netmap/ plus two headers under sys/net/), and some sample applications in tools/tools/netmap. There is also a manpage in share/man/man4 [1]
In order to make use of the framework you need to build a kernel with "device netmap", and patch individual drivers with the code that you can find in
sys/dev/netmap/head.diff
The file will go away as the relevant pieces are committed to the various device drivers, which should happen in a few days after talking to the driver maintainers.
Netmap support is available at the moment for Intel 10G and 1G cards (ixgbe, em/lem/igb), and for the Realtek 1G card ("re"). I have partial patches for "bge" and am starting to work on "cxgbe". Hopefully changes are trivial enough so interested third parties can submit their patches. Interested people can contact me for advice on how to add netmap support to specific devices.
CREDITS: Netmap has been developed by Luigi Rizzo and other collaborators at the Universita` di Pisa, and supported by EU project CHANGE (http://www.change-project.eu/) The code is distributed under a BSD Copyright.
[1] In my opinion is a bad idea to have all manpage in one directory. We should place kernel documentation in the same dir that contains the code, which would make it much simpler to keep doc and code in sync, reduce the clutter in share/man/ and incidentally is the policy used for all of userspace code. Makefiles and doc tools can be trivially adjusted to find the manpages in the relevant subdirs.
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