Call for testers: Atheros AR8121(L1E)/AR8113/AR8114(L2E)
ethernet
Boris Samorodov
bsam at ipt.ru
Sat Nov 8 01:27:24 PST 2008
Pyun YongHyeon <pyunyh at gmail.com> writes:
> On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 03:47:24PM +0900, To freebsd-current at FreeBSD.org wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 12:44:43PM +0900, To freebsd-current at FreeBSD.org wrote:
> > > On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 08:48:45PM +0900, To freebsd-current at FreeBSD.org wrote:
> > > > On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 01:06:37PM +0900, To freebsd-current at FreeBSD.org wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > Hi,
> > > > >
> > > > > I had been working on writing a driver for Atheros AR8121(L1E),
> > > > > AR8113/AR8114(L2E) ethernet controllers since Jeremy Chadwick sent
> > > > > the hardware to me. I think it's feature complete state and time
> > > > > for more testing for stability or some edge cases. I guess AR81xx
> > > > > is commonly found on newer Asus EeePC or P5Q series of Asus
> > > > > motherboard. If you have AR81xx controller would you give it spin
> > > > > and let me know how it goes? You can get the latest driver at the
> > > > > following URL.
> > > > > http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/ate/if_ate.c
> > > > > http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/ate/if_atereg.h
> > > > > http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/ate/if_atevar.h
> > > > > http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/ate/Makefile
> > > > > or
> > > > > http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/ate/ate.20081030.tar.gz
> > > > > The driver should build without problems on CURRENT, stable/7.
> > > > >
> > > > > ATM the driver supports the following hardware features.
> > > > > - TSO
> > > > > - Rx TCP/UDP/IP checksum offload
> > > > > - VLAN tag insertion/stripping
> > > > > - Jumbo frame
> > > > > - WOL
> > > > > It seems that hardware supports Tx checksum offload but I couldn't
> > > > > make it work for TCP segments. Only short TCP segments seem to work
> > > > > so I disabled Tx checksum offload.
> > > > > Note, the hardware does not support descriptor based DMA on Rx side
> > > > > so driver have to copy recevied frames to pass them to upper stack
> > > > > so it will consume a lot of CPU cycles if you push the hardware to
> > > > > the limit.
> > > >
> > > > As bruffer pointed out the device name chosen conflicts with other
> > > > driver in tree so I renamed it to ale(4).The URL for the driver is
> > > > http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/ale/if_ale.c
> > > > http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/ale/if_alereg.h
> > > > http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/ale/if_alevar.h
> > > > http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/ale/Makefile
> > > > or
> > > > http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/ale/ale.20081030.tar.gz
> > > > Sorry for confusion.
> > >
> > > FYI:
> > > There was a typo that keep ale(4) from building on stable/7. It was
> > > fixed now and I reuploaded related files(URLs are the same as before).
> >
> > Finally I've managed to make Tx checksum offload work and added one
> > more workaround for silicon bug. As usual updated ale(4) can be
> > found at the following URL.
> >
> > http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/ale/if_ale.c
> > http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/ale/if_alereg.h
> > http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/ale/if_alevar.h
> > http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/ale/Makefile
> > or
> > http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/ale/ale.20081107.tar.gz
> >
> > The workaround takes more CPU cycles than previous one but you can
> > still saturate the link if you have fast CPU. I'll commit this
> > version within a week unless severe issues are reported.
>
> One user reported non-working NFS over UDP and I disabled Rx
> checksum offload as AR81xx hardware is not able to handle
> fragmented IP datagrams correctly. So it's highly recommended to
> disable Rx checksum offload or use the following updated files.
>
> http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/ale/ale.20081108.tar.gz
Tested at EeePC-1000. The perfomance dropped (seems to be expected)
twice -- to 5.5 MB/s (fetching a big file to tmpfs). Other than that
works fine. This is for:
-----
ale0 at pci0:4:0:0: class=0x020000 card=0x83241043 chip=0x10261969 rev=0xb0 hdr=0x00
vendor = 'Attansic (Now owned by Atheros)'
class = network
subclass = ethernet
-----
WBR
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Boris Samorodov (bsam)
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