Correctly limit npairs passed to vtnet_ctrl_mq_cmd. This ensures that
VQ_ALLOC_INFO_INIT is called with the correct value, preventing the system
from hanging when max_virtqueue_pairs > VTNET_MAX_QUEUE_PAIRS.
Add new sysctl requested_vq_pairs which allow the user to configure
the requested number of virtqueue pairs. The actual value will still take
into account the system limits.
Also missing sysctls for the current tunables so their values can be seen.
PR: 207446
Reported by: Andy Carrel
MFC after: 3 days
Relnotes: Yes
Sponsored by: Multiplay
The Tx interrupt is now kept disabled in the common case, only
enabled when the number of free descriptors in the queue falls
below a threshold. Transmitted frames are cleared from the VQ
before subsequent transmit, or in the watchdog timer.
This was a very big performance improvement for an experimental
Netmap bhyve backend.
MFC after: 1 month
The sglist segment array has grown to a bit over 512 bytes (on
64-bit system) which is more than ideally should be put on the
stack. Instead allocate an appropriately sized sglist and hang
it off each Rx/Tx queue structure.
Bump the maximum number of Tx segments to 64 to make it unlikely
we'll have defragment an mbuf chain. Our previous count was
rounded up to this value since it is the next power of two, so
effective memory usage should not change.
Also only allocate the maximum number of Tx segments if TSO was
negotiated.
This is a significant rewrite of much of the previous driver; lots of
misc. cleanup was also performed, and support for a few other minor
features was also added.
Contains projects/virtio commits:
r245709:
Each VirtIO device was scheduling its own taskqueue(9) to do the
off-level interrupt handling. ithreads(9) is the more nature way
to do this. The primary motivation for this work to better support
network multiqueue.
r245710:
virtio: Change virtqueue intr handlers to return void
r245711:
virtio_blk: Remove interrupt taskqueue
r245721:
vtnet: Remove interrupt taskqueue
r245722:
virtio_scsi: Remove interrupt taskqueue
r245747:
vtnet: Remove taskqueue fields missed in r245721
MFC after: 1 month
c162516
Remove vtblk_sector_size
c162515
Wrap long license lines
c162514
Remove vtblk_unit
c162513
Wrap long lines in the license.
c162512
Remove verbose messages when link goes up/down.
A similar message is printed elsewhere as a result of
if_link_state_change().
c162511
Explicity compare pointer to NULL
c162510
Allocate the mac filter table at attach time.
c162509
Add real BSD licenses to the header files copied from Linux.
The chases upstream changes made in Linux awhile ago.
c162508
Only notify if we actually dequeued something.
c162507
Change a couple of if () { KASSERT(...) } to just KASSERTs.
In non-debug kernels, the if() { } probably get optomized
away, but I guess this is clearer.
c162506
Remove VIRTIO_BLK_F_TOPOLOGY fields in the config.
TOPOLOGY has since been removed from the spec, and the FreeBSD
didn't really do anything with the fields anyways.
c162505
Move vtblk_enqueue_request() outside the locks when getting the ident.
c162504
Remove soon to be uneeded trylock during dump [1].
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2011-November/029226.html
c162503
Remove emtpy line
c162502
Drop frame if cannot allocate a vtnet_tx_header.
If we don't, we set OACTIVE, but if there are no
other frames in flight, vtnet_txeof() will never
be called to unset OACTIVE. The interface would
have to be down/up'ed in order to become usable.
We could be cuter here and only do this if the
virtqueue is emtpy, but its probably not worth
the complication.
c162501
Start mbuf replacement loop at 1 for clarity
Obtained from: Bryan Venteicher bryanv at daemoninthecloset dot org
Tested on Qemu/KVM, VirtualBox, and BHyVe.
Currently built as modules-only on i386/amd64. Man pages not yet hooked
up, pending review.
Submitted by: Bryan Venteicher bryanv at daemoninthecloset dot org
Reviewed by: bz
MFC after: 4 weeks or so
