Introduce a netisr to deliver kernel-generated routing, avoiding
recursive entering of the socket code from the routing code:

- Modify rt_dispatch() to bundle up the sockaddr family, if any,
assoc

Introduce a netisr to deliver kernel-generated routing, avoiding
recursive entering of the socket code from the routing code:

- Modify rt_dispatch() to bundle up the sockaddr family, if any,
associated with a pending mbuf to dispatch to routing sockets, in
an m_tag on the mbuf.

- Allocate NETISR_ROUTE for use by routing sockets.

- Introduce rtsintrq, an ifqueue to be used by the netisr, and
introduce rts_input(), a function to unbundle the tagged sockaddr
and inject the mbuf and address into raw_input(), which previously
occurred in rt_dispatch().

- Introduce rts_init() to initialize rtsintrq, its mutex, and
register the netisr. Perform this at the same point in system
initialization as setup of the domains.

This change introduces asynchrony between the generation of a
pending routing socket message and delivery to sockets for use
by userspace. It avoids socket->routing->rtsock->socket use and
helps to avoid lock order reversals between the routing code and
socket code (in particular, raw socket control blocks), as route
locks are held over calls to rt_dispatch().

Reviewed by: "George V.Neville-Neil" <gnn@neville-neil.com>
Conceptual head nod by: sam

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Remove advertising clause from University of California Regent's
license, per letter dated July 22, 1999 and email from Peter Wemm,
Alan Cox and Robert Watson.

Approved by: core, peter, alc, rwatson

o add a flags parameter to netisr_register that is used to specify
whether or not the isr needs to hold Giant when running; Giant-less
operation is also controlled by the setting of debug_mpsafen

o add a flags parameter to netisr_register that is used to specify
whether or not the isr needs to hold Giant when running; Giant-less
operation is also controlled by the setting of debug_mpsafenet
o mark all netisr's except NETISR_IP as needing Giant
o add a GIANT_REQUIRED assertion to the top of netisr's that need Giant
o pickup Giant (when debug_mpsafenet is 1) inside ip_input before
calling up with a packet
o change netisr handling so swi_net runs w/o Giant; instead we grab
Giant before invoking handlers based on whether the handler needs Giant
o change netisr handling so that netisr's that are marked MPSAFE may
have multiple instances active at a time
o add netisr statistics for packets dropped because the isr is inactive

Supported by: FreeBSD Foundation

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Finish driving a stake through the heart of netns and the associated
ifdefs scattered around the place - its dead Jim!

The SMB stuff had stolen AF_NS, make it official.

Update netisr handling; Each SWI now registers its queue, and all queue
drain routines are done by swi_net, which allows for better queue control
at some future point. Packets may also be directly d

Update netisr handling; Each SWI now registers its queue, and all queue
drain routines are done by swi_net, which allows for better queue control
at some future point. Packets may also be directly dispatched to a netisr
instead of queued, this may be of interest at some installations, but
currently defaults to off.

Reviewed by: hsu, silby, jayanth, sam
Sponsored by: DARPA, NAI Labs

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Slight whitespace cleanup. Whitespace sync to MAC tree.

Remove __P.

Device Polling code for -current.

Non-SMP, i386-only, no polling in the idle loop at the moment.

To use this code you must compile a kernel with

options DEVICE_POLLING

and at runtime enab

Device Polling code for -current.

Non-SMP, i386-only, no polling in the idle loop at the moment.

To use this code you must compile a kernel with

options DEVICE_POLLING

and at runtime enable polling with

sysctl kern.polling.enable=1

The percentage of CPU reserved to userland can be set with

sysctl kern.polling.user_frac=NN (default is 50)

while the remainder is used by polling device drivers and netisr's.
These are the only two variables that you should need to touch. There
are a few more parameters in kern.polling but the default values
are adequate for all purposes. See the code in kern_poll.c for
more details on them.

Polling in the idle loop will be implemented shortly by introducing
a kernel thread which does the job. Until then, the amount of CPU
dedicated to polling will never exceed (100-user_frac).
The equivalent (actually, better) code for -stable is at

http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/polling/

and also supports polling in the idle loop.

NOTE to Alpha developers:
There is really nothing in this code that is i386-specific.
If you move the 2 lines supporting the new option from
sys/conf/{files,options}.i386 to sys/conf/{files,options} I am
pretty sure that this should work on the Alpha as well, just that
I do not have a suitable test box to try it. If someone feels like
trying it, I would appreciate it.

NOTE to other developers:
sure some things could be done better, and as always I am open to
constructive criticism, which a few of you have already given and
I greatly appreciated.
However, before proposing radical architectural changes, please
take some time to possibly try out this code, or at the very least
read the comments in kern_poll.c, especially re. the reason why I
am using a soft netisr and cannot (I believe) replace it with a
simple timeout.

Quick description of files touched by this commit:

sys/conf/files.i386
new file kern/kern_poll.c
sys/conf/options.i386
new option
sys/i386/i386/trap.c
poll in trap (disabled by default)
sys/kern/kern_clock.c
initialization and hardclock hooks.
sys/kern/kern_intr.c
minor swi_net changes
sys/kern/kern_poll.c
the bulk of the code.
sys/net/if.h
new flag
sys/net/if_var.h
declaration for functions used in device drivers.
sys/net/netisr.h
NETISR_POLL
sys/dev/fxp/if_fxp.c
sys/dev/fxp/if_fxpvar.h
sys/pci/if_dc.c
sys/pci/if_dcreg.h
sys/pci/if_sis.c
sys/pci/if_sisreg.h
device driver modifications

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Remove the last of the MD netisr code. It is now all MI. Remove
spending, which was unused now that all software interrupts have
their own thread. Make the legacy schednetisr use an atomic op
for

Remove the last of the MD netisr code. It is now all MI. Remove
spending, which was unused now that all software interrupts have
their own thread. Make the legacy schednetisr use an atomic op
for setting bits in the netisr mask.

Reviewed by: jhb

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- Overhaul the software interrupt code to use interrupt threads for each
type of software interrupt. Roughly, what used to be a bit in spending
now maps to a swi thread. Each thread can have mu

- Overhaul the software interrupt code to use interrupt threads for each
type of software interrupt. Roughly, what used to be a bit in spending
now maps to a swi thread. Each thread can have multiple handlers, just
like a hardware interrupt thread.
- Instead of using a bitmask of pending interrupts, we schedule the specific
software interrupt thread to run, so spending, NSWI, and the shandlers
array are no longer needed. We can now have an arbitrary number of
software interrupt threads. When you register a software interrupt
thread via sinthand_add(), you get back a struct intrhand that you pass
to sched_swi() when you wish to schedule your swi thread to run.
- Convert the name of 'struct intrec' to 'struct intrhand' as it is a bit
more intuitive. Also, prefix all the members of struct intrhand with
'ih_'.
- Make swi_net() a MI function since there is now no point in it being
MD.

Submitted by: cp

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Do some cleanups of the HARP atm codes interface into the system:

Define the NETISR just like all the other NETISRs.

unifdef -Usun -D__FreeBSD__ we will probably never support sun4c
and if we do w

Do some cleanups of the HARP atm codes interface into the system:

Define the NETISR just like all the other NETISRs.

unifdef -Usun -D__FreeBSD__ we will probably never support sun4c
and if we do we can't use the solaris code anyway and I doubt
anybody will be running Fore ATM cards in then in the first place.

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Clean up some loose ends in the network code, including the X.25 and ISO
#ifdefs. Clean out unused netisr's and leftover netisr linker set gunk.
Tested on x86 and alpha, including world.

Approved b

Clean up some loose ends in the network code, including the X.25 and ISO
#ifdefs. Clean out unused netisr's and leftover netisr linker set gunk.
Tested on x86 and alpha, including world.

Approved by: jkh

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Attempt to fix a problem with receiving packets on USB ethernet interfaces.
Packets are received inside USB bulk transfer callbacks, which run at
splusb() (actually splbio()). The packet input queues

Attempt to fix a problem with receiving packets on USB ethernet interfaces.
Packets are received inside USB bulk transfer callbacks, which run at
splusb() (actually splbio()). The packet input queues are meant to be
manipulated at splimp(). However the locking apparently breaks down under
certain circumstances and the input queues can get trampled.

There's a similar problem with if_ppp, which is driven by hardware/tty
interrupts from the serial driver, but which must also manipulate the
packet input queues at splimp(). The fix there is to use a netisr, and
that's the fix I used here. (I can hear you groaning back there. Hush up.)

The usb_ethersubr module maintains a single queue of its own. When a
packet is received in the USB callback routine, it's placed on this
queue with usb_ether_input(). This routine also schedules a soft net
interrupt with schednetisr(). The ISR routine then runs later, at
splnet, outside of the USB callback/interrupt context, and passes the
packet to ether_input(), hopefully in a safe manner.

The reason this is implemented as a separate module is that there are
a limited number of NETISRs that we can use, and snarfing one up for
each driver that needs it is wasteful (there will be three once I get
the CATC driver done). It also reduces code duplication to a certain
small extent. Unfortunately, it also needs to be linked in with the
usb.ko module in order for the USB ethernet drivers to share it.

Also removed some uneeded includes from if_aue.c and if_kue.c

Fix suggested by: peter
Not rejected as a hairbrained idea by: n_hibma

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Change #ifdef KERNEL to #ifdef _KERNEL in the public headers. "KERNEL"
is an application space macro and the applications are supposed to be free
to use it as they please (but cannot). This is cons

Change #ifdef KERNEL to #ifdef _KERNEL in the public headers. "KERNEL"
is an application space macro and the applications are supposed to be free
to use it as they please (but cannot). This is consistant with the other
BSD's who made this change quite some time ago. More commits to come.

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KAME related header files additions and merges.
(only those which don't affect c source files so much)

Reviewed by: cvs-committers
Obtained from: KAME project

Whistle's Netgraph link-layer (sometimes more) networking infrastructure.
Been in production for 3 years now. Gives Instant Frame relay to if_sr
and if_ar drivers, and PPPOE support soon. See:
ftp://

Whistle's Netgraph link-layer (sometimes more) networking infrastructure.
Been in production for 3 years now. Gives Instant Frame relay to if_sr
and if_ar drivers, and PPPOE support soon. See:
ftp://ftp.whistle.com/pub/archie/netgraph/index.html
for on-line manual pages.

Reviewed by: Doug Rabson (dfr@freebsd.org)
Obtained from: Whistle CVS tree

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$Id$ -> $FreeBSD$

Make NETISR_SET use a SYSINIT() rather than a linker set.

Fixed pedantic syntax errors caused by a trailing semicolon in a macro
definition.

Fixed gratuitous ANSIisms.

merge ATM driver

Back out part 1 of the MCFH that changed $Id$ to $FreeBSD$. We are not
ready for it yet.

Make the long-awaited change from $Id$ to $FreeBSD$

This will make a number of things easier in the future, as well as (finally!)
avoiding the Id-smashing problem which has plagued developers for so

Make the long-awaited change from $Id$ to $FreeBSD$

This will make a number of things easier in the future, as well as (finally!)
avoiding the Id-smashing problem which has plagued developers for so long.

Boy, I'm glad we're not using sup anymore. This update would have been
insane otherwise.

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Obtained from: netatalk distribution netatalk@itd.umich.edu

Kernel Appletalk protocol support
both CAP and netatalk can make use of this..
still needs some owrk but it seemd the right tiime to comm

Obtained from: netatalk distribution netatalk@itd.umich.edu

Kernel Appletalk protocol support
both CAP and netatalk can make use of this..
still needs some owrk but it seemd the right tiime to commit it
so other can experiment.

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Add a simplistic netisr register routine - I need this now for ppp-2.2.