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# 256281 10-Oct-2013 gjb

Copy head (r256279) to stable/10 as part of the 10.0-RELEASE cycle.

Approved by: re (implicit)
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation

# 235317 12-May-2012 gjb

General mdoc(7) and typo fixes.

PR: 167776
Submitted by: Nobuyuki Koganemaru (kogane!jp.freebsd.org)
MFC after: 3 days


# 227514 14-Nov-2011 yongari

Clarify hw.ti.%d.dac tunable.


# 227513 14-Nov-2011 yongari

Document newly introduced a loader tunable and sysctl variables.


# 227349 08-Nov-2011 yongari

Document TI_SF_BUF_JUMBO and Xr altq.


# 213573 08-Oct-2010 uqs

mdoc: drop redundant .Pp and .LP calls

They have no effect when coming in pairs, or before .Bl/.Bd


# 151046 07-Oct-2005 trhodes

Work around an apparent mdoc(7) bug.

Spotted by: marius
Discussed with: ru


# 148220 21-Jul-2005 trhodes

Break long lines and kill a few instances of EOL whitespace.

Noticed by: ru


# 148145 18-Jul-2005 trhodes

Add a "Load module on start up" comment, similar to mac_*.4 pages[1].
Quote .Cd and .Nd text.
Bump doc date.

Requested by: some user through ru
Supported by: ru, dwmalone, brueffer


# 138913 16-Dec-2004 ru

Reflect the removal of jumbo(9).


# 135148 13-Sep-2004 dd

Remove a broken URL reference. The submitter reports that the
"documentation on the AceNIC cards are no longer after Nortel acquired
Alteon".

PR: 71600
Submitted by: Linh Pham <question+freebsdpr@closedsrc.org>


# 134699 03-Sep-2004 brueffer

- move list of supported adapters into a HARDWARE section
- list the Digital EtherWORKS adapter as supported [1]
- properly capitalize (Fast|Gigabit) Ethernet
- bump document date

Obtained from: NetBSD [1]
MFC after: 3 days


# 131530 03-Jul-2004 ru

Mechanically kill hard sentence breaks and double whitespaces.


# 119893 08-Sep-2003 ru

mdoc(7): Use the new feature of the .In macro.


# 119439 25-Aug-2003 bmah

Sort the lists of supported devices. No other content changes.


# 119438 25-Aug-2003 bmah

In the lists of supported devices, remove "The" from the names of
devices and capitalize the words "Gigabit", "Ethernet", and "adapter"
consistently.


# 119437 25-Aug-2003 bmah

Catch up ti(4) with hardware notes.

PR: 55637
Submitted by: Lukas Ertl <l.ertl@univie.ac.at>


# 117011 28-Jun-2003 ru

Hiten's patchset for section four manpages, slightly edited by me.


# 108317 27-Dec-2002 schweikh

english(4) police.


# 101813 13-Aug-2002 ru

mdoc(7) police: laundry.


# 98849 26-Jun-2002 ken

At long last, commit the zero copy sockets code.

MAKEDEV: Add MAKEDEV glue for the ti(4) device nodes.

ti.4: Update the ti(4) man page to include information on the
TI_JUMBO_HDRSPLIT and TI_PRIVATE_JUMBOS kernel options,
and also include information about the new character
device interface and the associated ioctls.

man9/Makefile: Add jumbo.9 and zero_copy.9 man pages and associated
links.

jumbo.9: New man page describing the jumbo buffer allocator
interface and operation.

zero_copy.9: New man page describing the general characteristics of
the zero copy send and receive code, and what an
application author should do to take advantage of the
zero copy functionality.

NOTES: Add entries for ZERO_COPY_SOCKETS, TI_PRIVATE_JUMBOS,
TI_JUMBO_HDRSPLIT, MSIZE, and MCLSHIFT.

conf/files: Add uipc_jumbo.c and uipc_cow.c.

conf/options: Add the 5 options mentioned above.

kern_subr.c: Receive side zero copy implementation. This takes
"disposable" pages attached to an mbuf, gives them to
a user process, and then recycles the user's page.
This is only active when ZERO_COPY_SOCKETS is turned on
and the kern.ipc.zero_copy.receive sysctl variable is
set to 1.

uipc_cow.c: Send side zero copy functions. Takes a page written
by the user and maps it copy on write and assigns it
kernel virtual address space. Removes copy on write
mapping once the buffer has been freed by the network
stack.

uipc_jumbo.c: Jumbo disposable page allocator code. This allocates
(optionally) disposable pages for network drivers that
want to give the user the option of doing zero copy
receive.

uipc_socket.c: Add kern.ipc.zero_copy.{send,receive} sysctls that are
enabled if ZERO_COPY_SOCKETS is turned on.

Add zero copy send support to sosend() -- pages get
mapped into the kernel instead of getting copied if
they meet size and alignment restrictions.

uipc_syscalls.c:Un-staticize some of the sf* functions so that they
can be used elsewhere. (uipc_cow.c)

if_media.c: In the SIOCGIFMEDIA ioctl in ifmedia_ioctl(), avoid
calling malloc() with M_WAITOK. Return an error if
the M_NOWAIT malloc fails.

The ti(4) driver and the wi(4) driver, at least, call
this with a mutex held. This causes witness warnings
for 'ifconfig -a' with a wi(4) or ti(4) board in the
system. (I've only verified for ti(4)).

ip_output.c: Fragment large datagrams so that each segment contains
a multiple of PAGE_SIZE amount of data plus headers.
This allows the receiver to potentially do page
flipping on receives.

if_ti.c: Add zero copy receive support to the ti(4) driver. If
TI_PRIVATE_JUMBOS is not defined, it now uses the
jumbo(9) buffer allocator for jumbo receive buffers.

Add a new character device interface for the ti(4)
driver for the new debugging interface. This allows
(a patched version of) gdb to talk to the Tigon board
and debug the firmware. There are also a few additional
debugging ioctls available through this interface.

Add header splitting support to the ti(4) driver.

Tweak some of the default interrupt coalescing
parameters to more useful defaults.

Add hooks for supporting transmit flow control, but
leave it turned off with a comment describing why it
is turned off.

if_tireg.h: Change the firmware rev to 12.4.11, since we're really
at 12.4.11 plus fixes from 12.4.13.

Add defines needed for debugging.

Remove the ti_stats structure, it is now defined in
sys/tiio.h.

ti_fw.h: 12.4.11 firmware.

ti_fw2.h: 12.4.11 firmware, plus selected fixes from 12.4.13,
and my header splitting patches. Revision 12.4.13
doesn't handle 10/100 negotiation properly. (This
firmware is the same as what was in the tree previously,
with the addition of header splitting support.)

sys/jumbo.h: Jumbo buffer allocator interface.

sys/mbuf.h: Add a new external mbuf type, EXT_DISPOSABLE, to
indicate that the payload buffer can be thrown away /
flipped to a userland process.

socketvar.h: Add prototype for socow_setup.

tiio.h: ioctl interface to the character portion of the ti(4)
driver, plus associated structure/type definitions.

uio.h: Change prototype for uiomoveco() so that we'll know
whether the source page is disposable.

ufs_readwrite.c:Update for new prototype of uiomoveco().

vm_fault.c: In vm_fault(), check to see whether we need to do a page
based copy on write fault.

vm_object.c: Add a new function, vm_object_allocate_wait(). This
does the same thing that vm_object allocate does, except
that it gives the caller the opportunity to specify whether
it should wait on the uma_zalloc() of the object structre.

This allows vm objects to be allocated while holding a
mutex. (Without generating WITNESS warnings.)

vm_object_allocate() is implemented as a call to
vm_object_allocate_wait() with the malloc flag set to
M_WAITOK.

vm_object.h: Add prototype for vm_object_allocate_wait().

vm_page.c: Add page-based copy on write setup, clear and fault
routines.

vm_page.h: Add page based COW function prototypes and variable in
the vm_page structure.

Many thanks to Drew Gallatin, who wrote the zero copy send and receive
code, and to all the other folks who have tested and reviewed this code
over the years.


# 79727 14-Jul-2001 schweikh

Removed whitespace at end-of-line; no content changes. I simply did
cd src/share; find man[1-9] -type f|xargs perl -pi -e 's/[ \t]+$//'

BTW, what editors are the culprits? I'm using vim and it shows
me whitespace at EOL in troff files with a thick blue block...

Reviewed by: Silence from cvs diff -b
MFC after: 7 days


# 79538 10-Jul-2001 ru

mdoc(7) police: removed HISTORY info from the .Os call.


# 79366 06-Jul-2001 ru

mdoc(7) police: sort SEE ALSO xrefs (sort -b -f +2 -3 +1 -2).


# 75670 18-Apr-2001 ru

mdoc(7) police: normalize .Nd.


# 74970 28-Mar-2001 wpaul

Whoops, mention the Asante PCI 1000BASE-SX Gigabit Ethernet Adapter
(fiber version) too.


# 74969 28-Mar-2001 wpaul

Mention that the Asante GigaNIX1000T Gigabit Ethernet Adapter is supported
by the ti(4) driver. (Another OEM'ed Tigon 2.)


# 71895 01-Feb-2001 ru

mdoc(7) police: split punctuation characters + misc fixes.


# 64500 10-Aug-2000 billf

1000bassT -> 1000baseT


# 64139 02-Aug-2000 wpaul

Add support for the Netgear GA620T copper gigabit card.


# 63699 20-Jul-2000 wpaul

Update the Tigon driver to support 1000baseTX gigE over copper AceNIC
cards. This basically involves switching to the 12.4.13 firmware, plus
a couple of minor tweaks to the driver.

Also changed the jumbo buffer allocation scheme just a little to avoid
'failed to allocate jumbo buffer' conditions in certain cases.


# 59974 04-May-2000 archie

Move netgraph node type man pages from section 8 to section 4.


# 57676 01-Mar-2000 sheldonh

Remove single-space hard sentence breaks. These degrade the quality
of the typeset output, tend to make diffs harder to read and provide
bad examples for new-comers to mdoc.


# 56612 25-Jan-2000 archie

Add a reference to ng_ether(8).


# 56467 23-Jan-2000 asmodai

Second round of config related changes to the manpages.

device blah0 -> device blah for PCI devices and busses.


# 53200 15-Nov-1999 phantom

* remove i386 specific mark
* some style and syntax fixes
* some duplicated $FreeBSD$ tags removed


# 50476 27-Aug-1999 peter

$Id$ -> $FreeBSD$


# 49831 15-Aug-1999 mpp

Various man page cleanup:

- Sort xrefs
- FreeBSD.ORG -> FreeBSD.org
- Be consistent with section names as outlined in mdoc(7).
- Other misc mdoc cleanup.

PR: doc/13144
Submitted by: Alexey M. Zelkin <phantom@cris.net>


# 45386 06-Apr-1999 wpaul

Add driver support for gigabit ethernet adapters based on the Alteon
Networks Tigon 1 and Tigon 2 chipsets. There are a _lot_ of OEM'ed
gigabit ethernet adapters out there which use the Alteon chipset so
this driver covers a fair amount of hardware. I know that it works with
the Alteon AceNIC, 3Com 3c985 and Netgear GA620, however it should also
work with the DEC/Compaq EtherWORKS 1000, Silicon Graphics Gigabit
ethernet board, NEC Gigabit Ethernet board and maybe even the IBM and
and Sun boards. The Netgear board is the cheapest (~$350US) but still
yields fairly good performance.

Support is provided for jumbo frames with all adapters (just set the
MTU to something larger than 1500 bytes), as well as hardware multicast
filtering and vlan tagging (in conjunction with the vlan support in
-current, which I should merge into -stable soon). There are some hooks
for checksum offload support, but they're turned off for now since
FreeBSD doesn't have an officially sanctioned way to support checksum
offloading (yet).

I have not added the 'device ti0' entry to GENERIC since the driver
with all the firmware compiled in is quite large, and it doesn't really
fit into the category of generic hardware.