[GSoC'20 Update] NetFPGA SUME reference NIC device driver
Denis Salopek
denissal at freebsd.org
Mon Jul 20 06:53:24 UTC 2020
Hi everyone!
What was done:
- Improved locking mechanisms for RX / TX. In RX path, we release the lock
before giving the mbuf to the OS. In TX path, we dequeue the packet before
acquiring the lock and sending the packet to hardware.
- Removed additional mutexes for control / status register read / write in
order to synchronize its locking with the rest of the code.
- It is now possible to set the interfaces' MTU. The hardware does not
permit frames over 1514 bytes, so it's not possible to set IFCAP_VLAN_MTU
capability on the interfaces.
- Added sysctl software packet counters.
- Enabled padding for smaller packets.
- Cleaned the code to better match the style(9) guidelines.
TODO:
- The detach function is not safe, this needs to be revisited (panics when
unloading module if tcpdump is listening on the interface, or if we're in
the middle of RX / TX path).
- Benchmark the driver on FreeBSD 11.4, 12.1 and CURRENT.
- Write a manual page.
Project github with more details:
https://github.com/denisSal/freebsd-sume
Regards,
Denis Salopek
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