src-test2/sys/dev/wtap, branch release/12.0.0

UDP: further performance improvements on tx

2018-05-23T21:02:14Z

Cumulative throughput while running 64 netperf -H $DUT -t UDP_STREAM -- -m 1 on a 2x8x2 SKL went from 1.1Mpps to 2.5Mpps Single stream throughput increases from 910kpps to 1.18Mpps Baseline: https://people.freebsd.org/~mmacy/2018.05.11/udpsender2.svg - Protect read access to global ifnet list with epoch https://people.freebsd.org/~mmacy/2018.05.11/udpsender3.svg - Protect short lived ifaddr references with epoch https://people.freebsd.org/~mmacy/2018.05.11/udpsender4.svg - Convert if_afdata read lock path to epoch https://people.freebsd.org/~mmacy/2018.05.11/udpsender5.svg A fix for the inpcbhash contention is pending sufficient time on a canary at LLNW. Reviewed by: gallatin Sponsored by: Limelight Networks Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D15409

sys/dev: further adoption of SPDX licensing ID tags.

2017-11-27T14:52:40Z

Mainly focus on files that use BSD 2-Clause license, however the tool I was using misidentified many licenses so this was mostly a manual - error prone - task. The Software Package Data Exchange (SPDX) group provides a specification to make it easier for automated tools to detect and summarize well known opensource licenses. We are gradually adopting the specification, noting that the tags are considered only advisory and do not, in any way, superceed or replace the license texts.

etc: minor spelling fixes.

2016-05-02T16:47:28Z

Mostly comments but also some user-visible strings. MFC after: 2 weeks

wtap: do not include when is already included

2015-12-13T20:53:51Z

Approved by: adrian (mentor) Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D4536

wtap: remove some obsolete radiotap(9) code

2015-10-22T15:20:33Z

This code is not needed since r192468. Approved by: adrian (mentor) Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D3975

net80211: drop ieee80211_beacon_offsets parameter from ieee80211_beacon_alloc() and ieee80211_beacon_update()

2015-10-03T22:12:25Z

Submitted by: Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D3659

net80211: include one copy of struct ieee80211_beacon_offsets into ieee80211vap

2015-09-22T06:34:07Z

Submitted by: Andriy Voskoboinyk Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D3658

Replay r286410. Change KPI of how device drivers that provide wireless

2015-08-27T08:56:39Z

connectivity interact with the net80211 stack. Historical background: originally wireless devices created an interface, just like Ethernet devices do. Name of an interface matched the name of the driver that created. Later, wlan(4) layer was introduced, and the wlanX interfaces become the actual interface, leaving original ones as "a parent interface" of wlanX. Kernelwise, the KPI between net80211 layer and a driver became a mix of methods that pass a pointer to struct ifnet as identifier and methods that pass pointer to struct ieee80211com. From user point of view, the parent interface just hangs on in the ifconfig list, and user can't do anything useful with it. Now, the struct ifnet goes away. The struct ieee80211com is the only KPI between a device driver and net80211. Details: - The struct ieee80211com is embedded into drivers softc. - Packets are sent via new ic_transmit method, which is very much like the previous if_transmit. - Bringing parent up/down is done via new ic_parent method, which notifies driver about any changes: number of wlan(4) interfaces, number of them in promisc or allmulti state. - Device specific ioctls (if any) are received on new ic_ioctl method. - Packets/errors accounting are done by the stack. In certain cases, when driver experiences errors and can not attribute them to any specific interface, driver updates ic_oerrors or ic_ierrors counters. Details on interface configuration with new world order: - A sequence of commands needed to bring up wireless DOESN"T change. - /etc/rc.conf parameters DON'T change. - List of devices that can be used to create wlan(4) interfaces is now provided by net.wlan.devices sysctl. Most drivers in this change were converted by me, except of wpi(4), that was done by Andriy Voskoboinyk. Big thanks to Kevin Lo for testing changes to at least 8 drivers. Thanks to pluknet@, Oliver Hartmann, Olivier Cochard, gjb@, mmoll@, op@ and lev@, who also participated in testing. Reviewed by: adrian Sponsored by: Netflix Sponsored by: Nginx, Inc.

Revert the wifi ifnet changes until things are more baked and tested.

2015-08-08T01:10:17Z

* 286410 * 286413 * 286416 The initial commit broke a variety of debug and features that aren't in the GENERIC kernels but are enabled in other platforms.

Change KPI of how device drivers that provide wireless connectivity interact

2015-08-07T11:43:14Z

with the net80211 stack. Historical background: originally wireless devices created an interface, just like Ethernet devices do. Name of an interface matched the name of the driver that created. Later, wlan(4) layer was introduced, and the wlanX interfaces become the actual interface, leaving original ones as "a parent interface" of wlanX. Kernelwise, the KPI between net80211 layer and a driver became a mix of methods that pass a pointer to struct ifnet as identifier and methods that pass pointer to struct ieee80211com. From user point of view, the parent interface just hangs on in the ifconfig list, and user can't do anything useful with it. Now, the struct ifnet goes away. The struct ieee80211com is the only KPI between a device driver and net80211. Details: - The struct ieee80211com is embedded into drivers softc. - Packets are sent via new ic_transmit method, which is very much like the previous if_transmit. - Bringing parent up/down is done via new ic_parent method, which notifies driver about any changes: number of wlan(4) interfaces, number of them in promisc or allmulti state. - Device specific ioctls (if any) are received on new ic_ioctl method. - Packets/errors accounting are done by the stack. In certain cases, when driver experiences errors and can not attribute them to any specific interface, driver updates ic_oerrors or ic_ierrors counters. Details on interface configuration with new world order: - A sequence of commands needed to bring up wireless DOESN"T change. - /etc/rc.conf parameters DON'T change. - List of devices that can be used to create wlan(4) interfaces is now provided by net.wlan.devices sysctl. Most drivers in this change were converted by me, except of wpi(4), that was done by Andriy Voskoboinyk. Big thanks to Kevin Lo for testing changes to at least 8 drivers. Thanks to Olivier Cochard, gjb@, mmoll@, op@ and lev@, who also participated in testing. Details here: https://wiki.freebsd.org/projects/ifnet/net80211 Still, drivers: ndis, wtap, mwl, ipw, bwn, wi, upgt, uath were not tested. Changes to mwl, ipw, bwn, wi, upgt are trivial and chances of problems are low. The wtap wasn't compilable even before this change. But the ndis driver is complex, and it is likely to be broken with this commit. Help with testing and debugging it is appreciated. Differential Revision: D2655, D2740 Sponsored by: Nginx, Inc. Sponsored by: Netflix