src/sys/dev/hme, branch main

hme(4): Remove as previous announced

2020-12-11T21:40:38+00:00

The hme (Happy Meal Ethernet) driver was the onboard NIC in most
supported sparc64 platforms. A few PCI NICs do exist, but we have seen
no evidence of use on non-sparc systems.

Reviewed by:	imp, emaste, bcr
Sponsored by:	DARPA

Mark hme(4) as deprecated.

2020-02-12T00:58:17+00:00

It was saved from the initial purge of drivers in fcp-101 due to being
the onboard Ethernet device on a number of sparc64 machines.  Now that
sparc64 is gone, it serves little purpose (PCI cards exist, but are rare
and are unlikely to have been deployed outside Sun systems).

MFC after:	3 days

Remove sparc64 kernel support

2020-02-03T17:35:11+00:00

Remove all sparc64 specific files
Remove all sparc64 ifdefs
Removee indireeect sparc64 ifdefs

Convert to if_foreach_llmaddr() KPI.

2019-10-21T18:07:02+00:00

ifnet: Replace if_addr_lock rwlock with epoch + mutex

2018-05-18T20:13:34+00:00

Run on LLNW canaries and tested by pho@

gallatin:
Using a 14-core, 28-HTT single socket E5-2697 v3 with a 40GbE MLX5
based ConnectX 4-LX NIC, I see an almost 12% improvement in received
packet rate, and a larger improvement in bytes delivered all the way
to userspace.

When the host receiving 64 streams of netperf -H $DUT -t UDP_STREAM -- -m 1,
I see, using nstat -I mce0 1 before the patch:

InMpps OMpps  InGbs  OGbs err TCP Est %CPU syscalls csw     irq GBfree
4.98   0.00   4.42   0.00 4235592     33   83.80 4720653 2149771   1235 247.32
4.73   0.00   4.20   0.00 4025260     33   82.99 4724900 2139833   1204 247.32
4.72   0.00   4.20   0.00 4035252     33   82.14 4719162 2132023   1264 247.32
4.71   0.00   4.21   0.00 4073206     33   83.68 4744973 2123317   1347 247.32
4.72   0.00   4.21   0.00 4061118     33   80.82 4713615 2188091   1490 247.32
4.72   0.00   4.21   0.00 4051675     33   85.29 4727399 2109011   1205 247.32
4.73   0.00   4.21   0.00 4039056     33   84.65 4724735 2102603   1053 247.32

After the patch

InMpps OMpps  InGbs  OGbs err TCP Est %CPU syscalls csw     irq GBfree
5.43   0.00   4.20   0.00 3313143     33   84.96 5434214 1900162   2656 245.51
5.43   0.00   4.20   0.00 3308527     33   85.24 5439695 1809382   2521 245.51
5.42   0.00   4.19   0.00 3316778     33   87.54 5416028 1805835   2256 245.51
5.42   0.00   4.19   0.00 3317673     33   90.44 5426044 1763056   2332 245.51
5.42   0.00   4.19   0.00 3314839     33   88.11 5435732 1792218   2499 245.52
5.44   0.00   4.19   0.00 3293228     33   91.84 5426301 1668597   2121 245.52

Similarly, netperf reports 230Mb/s before the patch, and 270Mb/s after the patch

Reviewed by:	gallatin
Sponsored by:	Limelight Networks
Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D15366

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

2017-11-27T14:52:40+00:00

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.

Mechanically convert to if_inc_counter().

2014-09-18T21:07:05+00:00

Use define from if_var.h to access a field inside struct if_data,

2014-08-30T19:55:54+00:00

that resides in struct ifnet.

Sponsored by:	Nginx, Inc.

Provide necessary includes.

2013-10-28T23:34:05+00:00

The r48589 promised to remove implicit inclusion of if_var.h soon. Prepare

2013-10-26T17:58:36+00:00

to this event, adding if_var.h to files that do need it. Also, include
all includes that now are included due to implicit pollution via if_var.h

Sponsored by:	Netflix
Sponsored by:	Nginx, Inc.