K 10
svn:author
V 6
marius
K 8
svn:date
V 27
2017-09-08T00:11:35.754272Z
K 7
svn:log
V 2997
- Ever since the workaround for the silicon bug of TSO4 causing MAC hangs
  was committed in r295133 (MFCed to stable/10 in r295287), CSUM_TSO gets
  always disabled by em(4) on the first invocation of em_init_locked() as
  at that point no link is established, yet. In turn, this causes CSUM_TSO
  also to be off when em(4) is used as a parent device for vlan(4), i. e.
  besides IFCAP_TSO4, IFCAP_VLAN_HWTSO effectively doesn't work either.

  In head an attempt to fix this was made with r308345, but that revision
  had several problems on its own. One of which was that r308345 caused
  IFCAP_TSO4 to also be cleared from both the interface capability and
  capability enable bits. Thus, once a link switched from gigabit to a
  lower speed, TSO no longer could be enabled, even not via ifconfig(8).
  So this change moves the aforementioned WAR to em_update_link_status()
  like r308345 did, but only alters the hardware assist bits accordingly,
  leaving IFCAP_TSO4 flags alone.

  Still, this isn't the only problem r308345 had. Another one is that there
  just is no way to atomically flush TSO-using descriptors already queued
  at the point in time a link speed switch to below GbE occurs. Thus, such
  in-flight descriptors still may hang the MAC. Moreover, at least currently
  there also is no way of triggering a reconfiguration of vlan(4) when the
  state of IFCAP_VLAN_HWTSO support changes at runtime, causing vlan(4) to
  continue employing TSO. Last but not least, testing shows that - despite
  all the WARs for TSO-related silicon bugs in em(4) - at least 82579 still
  may hang at gigabit speed with IFCAP_TSO4 enabled. Therefore, this change
  further removes IFCAP_TSO4 and IFCAP_VLAN_HWTSO from interface capability
  enable bits as set by em(4). While at it, the use of CSUM_TCP is replaced
  with CSUM_IP_TSO as em(4) only implements support for IFCAP_TSO4 but not
  IFCAP_TSO6 (although in principle available with a subset of the supported
  MACs).

  At the bottom line, this change allows IFCAP_TSO4 and IFCAP_VLAN_HWTSO to
  be used again with em(4), but these hardware offloading capabilities now
  need to be explicitly enabled via ifconfig(8). Beware that it's only
  considered safe to do so (and also only may work) in environments where
  the link speed is not to be expected to change from GbE. Moreover, em(4)
  appears to still be missing some more TSO workarounds for at least some
  models, specifically the 82579 (I could not find an errata sheet and
  "specification update" respectively for these latter, though, and the
  generic ICH8 one doesn't list any TSO related bugs).

- Let igb_tso_setup() handle EtherType protocols that are unsupported or
  for which support hasn't been compiled in gracefully instead of calling
  panic(9).

- Make em_allocate_{legacy,msix}() and lem_allocate_irq() match their
  prototypes WRT static.

This is a direct commit to stable/10 as corresponding code is no longer
present in head.

Approved by:	re (gjb, kib)

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