Add a new dynamic itr algorithm, with 2 modes, and make it the default
operation mode. This greatly reduces latency and increases small packet
performance, at the "cost" of some CPU utilization. Bulk traffic
throughput is unaffected.
The driver can limit the amount of interrupts per second that the
adapter will generate for incoming packets. It does this by writing a
value to the adapter that is based on the maximum amount of interrupts
that the adapter will generate per second.
Setting InterruptThrottleRate to a value greater or equal to 100 will
program the adapter to send out a maximum of that many interrupts per
second, even if more packets have come in. This reduces interrupt
load on the system and can lower CPU utilization under heavy load,
but will increase latency as packets are not processed as quickly.
The default behaviour of the driver previously assumed a static
InterruptThrottleRate value of 8000, providing a good fallback value
for all traffic types,but lacking in small packet performance and
latency. The hardware can handle many more small packets per second
however, and for this reason an adaptive interrupt moderation algorithm
was implemented.
Since 7.3.x, the driver has two adaptive modes (setting 1 or 3) in
which it dynamically adjusts the InterruptThrottleRate value based on
the traffic that it receives. After determining the type of incoming
traffic in the last timeframe, it will adjust the InterruptThrottleRate
to an appropriate value for that traffic.
The algorithm classifies the incoming traffic every interval into
classes. Once the class is determined, the InterruptThrottleRate
value is adjusted to suit that traffic type the best. There are
three classes defined: "Bulk traffic", for large amounts of packets
of normal size; "Low latency", for small amounts of traffic and/or
a significant percentage of small packets; and "Lowest latency",
for almost completely small packets or minimal traffic.
In dynamic conservative mode, the InterruptThrottleRate value is
set to 4000 for traffic that falls in class "Bulk traffic". If
traffic falls in the "Low latency" or "Lowest latency" class, the
InterruptThrottleRate is increased stepwise to 20000. This default
mode is suitable for most applications.
For situations where low latency is vital such as cluster or
grid computing, the algorithm can reduce latency even more when
InterruptThrottleRate is set to mode 1. In this mode, which operates
the same as mode 3, the InterruptThrottleRate will be increased
stepwise to 70000 for traffic in class "Lowest latency".
Setting InterruptThrottleRate to 0 turns off any interrupt moderation
and may improve small packet latency, but is generally not suitable
for bulk throughput traffic.
Signed-off-by: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com>
Cc: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Auke Kok <auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com>
Add a netif_wake/start_queue counter to the ethtool statistics to indicated
to the user that their transmit ring could be too small for their workload.
Signed-off-by: Jesse brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com>
Cc: Jamal Hadi <hadi@cyberus.ca>
Signed-off-by: Auke Kok <auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com>
Enable TSO for IPV6. All e1000 hardware supports it. This reduces CPU
utilizations by 50% when transmitting IPv6 frames.
Fix symbol naming enabling ipv6 TSO. Turn off TSO6 for 10/100.
Signed-off-by: Auke Kok <auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com>
We were plagued by our interrupt handler posting a watchdog event which
could occur when our adapter was going down in case a late packet arrived
just before e1000_down() finished. This caused the watchdog timer to start
after the NIC was down and keep rescheduling it every N seconds. Once
the driver unloaded it would panic.
Signed-off-by: Auke Kok <auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com>
This update to the copyright header adds the mailinglist, and aligns it
with the kernel licensing as well as remove the offending 'all rights
reserved'.
Signed-off-by: Auke Kok <auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com>
WoL is constantly giving problems and needed a rewrite. Consolidates
all WoL capabilities into a single function, and disables WoL for all
other ports on the device except for port A.
Signed-off-by: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Auke Kok <auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com>
Remove the code that reads part_num from the EEPROM. This part number
is never displayed or queryable by the user.
Signed-off-by: Auke Kok <auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com>
A panic was reported when receiving 1522 size packets if using
the default MTU. we should set the initial rx buffer length to the
value that e1000changemtu sets so that we can receive any packet
that would not be dropped by LPE=0.
Signed-off-by: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Auke Kok <auke.jan.h.kok@intel.com>
This hooks up the ich8 structure into the driver itself.
Signed-off-by: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Auke Kok <auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com>
Smart Power Down is a power saving feature in newer e1000 hardware. We
disable it because it causes time to link to be long, but make it a
user choice.
Signed-off-by: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Auke Kok <auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com>
After studying the driver mac reset code it was found that there
were multiple race conditions possible to reset the unit twice or
bring it e1000_up() double. This fixes all occurences where the
driver needs to reset the mac.
We also remove irq requesting/releasing into _open and _close so
that while the device is _up we will never touch the irq's. This fixes
the double free irq bug that people saw.
To make sure that the watchdog task doesn't cause another race we let
it run as a non-scheduled task.
Signed-off-by: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Auke Kok <auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com>
Add the sourceforge project mailinglist to the contact information.
Bump version to 7.0.38-k2
Update copyright string with the new year.
Signed-off-by: Auke Kok <auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John Ronciak <john.ronciak@intel.com>
Remove multi-descriptor support from legacy recieve path
Add memory usage efficiency by using more correct size descriptors for
small MTU sizes and optimize using LPE for <= 1522 byte frame sizes
An extra performance fix that effected our TCP window size growth
as a receiver. Set our initial buffer to be 128 bytes instead of 256
to prevent over-socket charge when truesize is computed in the stack.
old way: truesize = 256 + l1 = 256 + 1460 = 1716
new way: truesize = 128 + l1 = 128 + 1460 = 1588
The magic value that we can't cross is 1648.
Signed-off-by: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Auke Kok <auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John Ronciak <john.ronciak@intel.com>
Made an adapter struct variable into a local (txb2b)
Signed-off-by: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Auke Kok <auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John Ronciak <john.ronciak@intel.com>
This patch moves prototypes of global variables and functions to a header
file.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Acked-by: John Ronciak <john.ronciak@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
- Add restriction for ESB2 to MTU size <=9216
- Removed FIFO errors which were not being used
- Fixed issues with loopback
- Power management change for saving state and config space
- WA to disable recieves and reset device on link loss. Reset needed to be done outside the interrupt context - modified existing tx_timeout_task
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John Ronciak <john.ronciak@intel.com>
A recent patch attempted to enable more efficient memory usage by using
only 2kB descriptors for jumbo frames. The method used to implement this
has since been commented upon as "illegal" and in recent kernels even
causes a BUG when receiving ip fragments while using jumbo frames.
This patch simply goes back to the way things were. We expect some
complaints due to order 3 allocations failing to come back due to this
change.
Signed-off-by: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com>
10/100 speeds seem to have some problems reporting false tx timeouts especially at half duplex. Fixed by using a timeout factor to attempt to mitigate the false timeouts.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John Ronciak <john.ronciak@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Fixed stats when using multiple queues.
When multiple queues are enabled, log a message in syslog.
Fixed memory allocation for multiple queues.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John Ronciak <john.ronciak@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Fix adapter structure to handle multiple queues and prepping the driver for full multiple queue support, some changes are ifdef'd our unless you define CONFIG_E1000_MQ.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John Ronciak <john.ronciak@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Updated the e1000_stats structure and removed mpx for rx_errors and rx_dropped.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John Ronciak <john.ronciak@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
These fixes update the TX and RX ring structures. Prepare driver for up-coming fixes.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John Ronciak <john.ronciak@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
- TSO workaround
- Fixes eeprom version reporting
- Fix loopback test
- Fix for WOL
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John Ronciak <john.ronciak@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com>
Fixes for packet split related issues
* On platforms where PAGE_SIZE > 4K, driver will use only required number of
pages compared to always using 3 pages.
* Packet split won't be used if the PAGE_SIZE is > 16K
* Adds a statistics counter to splits.
* Setting the non Null ptr to zero sized buffers to solve packet split
receive descriptor error
* When the no of pages needed is calculated, the header buffer is not
included for a given MTU.
Signed-off-by: Mallikarjuna R Chilakala <mallikarjuna.chilakala@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ganesh Venkatesan <ganesh.venkatesan@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John Ronciak <john.ronciak@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
defines/modifies data structures, function prototypes and changes to the
driver rendering it capable of handling <n> tx/rx queues
Signed-off-by: Mallikarjuna R Chilakala <mallikarjuna.chilakala@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ganesh Venkatesan <ganesh.venkatesan@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John Ronciak <john.ronciak@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Cleanup debug message printed when Tx Unit hang is detected
Signed-off-by: Mallikarjuna R Chilakala <mallikarjuna.chilakala@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ganesh Venkatesan <ganesh.venkatesan@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John Ronciak <john.ronciak@intel.com>
Use correct WOL settings for 82544 adapters
Signed-off-by: Mallikarjuna R Chilakala <mallikarjuna.chilakala@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ganesh Venkatesan <ganesh.venkatesan@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John Ronciak <john.ronciak@intel.com>
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.
Let it rip!
Jesse Brandeburg