RX FIFO overflow is almost inevitable since the (usable) USB2 bus
bandwidth is approximately one quarter of the Ethernet bandwidth.
Avoid flooding the console with RX FIFO overflow messages in a
standard debug build.
With TCP SACK implemented, the RX FIFO overflow no longer causes a
catastrophic drop in throughput. Experimentation shows that HTTP
downloads now progress at a fairly smooth 250Mbps, which is around the
maximum speed attainable for a USB2 NIC.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
The TCP Selective Acknowledgement option (specified in RFC2018)
provides a mechanism for the receiver to indicate packets that have
been received out of order (e.g. due to earlier dropped packets).
iPXE often operates in environments in which there is a high
probability of packet loss. For example, the legacy USB keyboard
emulation in some BIOSes involves polling the USB bus from within a
system management interrupt: this introduces an invisible delay of
around 500us which is long enough for around 40 full-length packets to
be dropped. Similarly, almost all 1Gbps USB2 devices will eventually
end up dropping packets because the USB2 bus does not provide enough
bandwidth to sustain a 1Gbps stream, and most devices will not provide
enough internal buffering to hold a full TCP window's worth of
received packets.
Add support for sending TCP Selective Acknowledgements. This provides
the sender with more detailed information about which packets have
been lost, and so allows for a more efficient retransmission strategy.
We include a SACK-permitted option in our SYN packet, since
experimentation shows that at least Linux peers will not include a
SACK-permitted option in the SYN-ACK packet if one was not present in
the initial SYN. (RFC2018 does not seem to mandate this behaviour,
but it is consistent with the approach taken in RFC1323.) We ignore
any received SACK options; this is safe to do since SACK is only ever
advisory and we never have to send non-trivial amounts of data.
Since our TCP receive queue is a candidate for cache discarding under
low memory conditions, we may end up discarding data that has been
reported as received via a SACK option. This is permitted by RFC2018.
We follow the stricture that SACK blocks must not report data which is
no longer held by the receiver: previously-reported blocks are
validated against the current receive queue before being included
within the current SACK block list.
Experiments in a qemu VM using forced packet drops (by setting
NETDEV_DISCARD_RATE to 32) show that implementing SACK improves
throughput by around 400%.
Experiments with a USB2 NIC (an SMSC7500) show that implementing SACK
improves throughput by around 700%, increasing the download rate from
35Mbps up to 250Mbps (which is approximately the usable bandwidth
limit for USB2).
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Several of the assembly files in arch/i386/prefix were missed by the
automated relicensing tool due to missing licence declarations, code
dating back to the initial git revision, etc. Manual review shows
that these files may be relicensed.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
This driver is functional but any downloads via a TCP-based protocol
tend to perform poorly. The 1Gbps Ethernet line rate is substantially
higher than the 480Mbps (in practice around 280Mbps) provided by USB2,
and the device has only 32kB of internal buffer memory. Our 256kB TCP
receive window therefore rapidly overflows the RX FIFO, leading to
multiple dropped packets (usually within the same TCP window) and
hence a low overall throughput.
Reducing the TCP window size so that the RX FIFO does not overflow
greatly increases throughput, but is not a general-purpose solution.
Further investigation is required to determine how other OSes
(e.g. Linux) cope with this scenario. It is possible that
implementing TCP SACK would provide some benefit.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Most devices expose at least the link up/down status via a bit in a
MAC register, since the MAC generally already needs to know whether or
not the link is up. Some devices (e.g. the SMSC75xx USB NIC) expose
this information to software only via the MII registers.
Provide a generic mii_check_link() implementation to check the BMSR
and report the link status via netdev_link_{up,down}().
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Microsoft IIS supports only MD5-sess for Digest authentication.
Requested-by: Andreas Hammarskjöld <junior@2PintSoftware.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
iPXE already sends RX notifications to the backend when needed, but
does not set the "feature-rx-notify" flag. As of XenServer 6.5, this
flag is mandatory and omitting it will cause the backend to fail.
Fix by setting the "feature-rx-notify" flag, to inform the backend
that we will send notifications.
Reported-by: Shalom Bhooshi <shalom.bhooshi@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Restore the original values of XUSB2PR and USB3PSSEN, in case we are
booting an OS with no support for xHCI.
Suggested-by: Dan Ellis <Dan.Ellis@displaylink.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Intel PCH controllers default to routing USB2 ports to EHCI rather
than xHCI, and default to disabling SuperSpeed connections.
Manipulate the PCI configuration space registers as necessary to
reroute ports and enable SuperSpeed.
Originally-fixed-by: Dan Ellis <Dan.Ellis@displaylink.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Relicense files with kind permission from
Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
alongside the contributors who have already granted such relicensing
permission.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Rewrite (and relicense) the header files which are included in all
builds of iPXE (including non-Linux builds).
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
At some point in the past few years, binutils became more aggressive
at removing unused symbols. To function as a symbol requirement, a
relocation record must now be in a section marked with @progbits and
must not be in a section which gets discarded during the link (either
via --gc-sections or via /DISCARD/).
Update REQUIRE_SYMBOL() to generate relocation records meeting these
criteria. To minimise the impact upon the final binary size, we use
existing symbols (specified via the REQUIRING_SYMBOL() macro) as the
relocation targets where possible. We use R_386_NONE or R_X86_64_NONE
relocation types to prevent any actual unwanted relocation taking
place. Where no suitable symbol exists for REQUIRING_SYMBOL() (such
as in config.c), the macro PROVIDE_REQUIRING_SYMBOL() can be used to
generate a one-byte-long symbol to act as the relocation target.
If there are versions of binutils for which this approach fails, then
the fallback will probably involve killing off REQUEST_SYMBOL(),
redefining REQUIRE_SYMBOL() to use the current definition of
REQUEST_SYMBOL(), and postprocessing the linked ELF file with
something along the lines of "nm -u | wc -l" to check that there are
no undefined symbols remaining.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
The valgrind headers are not x86-specific; they detect the CPU
architecture and contain inline assembly for multiple architectures.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Unregistering a child settings block can have almost arbitrary
effects, due to the call to apply_settings(). Avoid potentially
dereferencing a stale pointer by using list_first_entry() rather than
list_for_each_entry_safe() to iterate over the list of child settings.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
The code in list.h was originally taken from the Linux kernel many
years ago, but has been rewritten to the point that no original code
remains, and may therefore be relicensed.
The functions and data structures remain largely API-compatible, to
facilitate the conversion of Linux network drivers to iPXE.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
These files cannot be automatically relicensed by util/relicense.pl
since they either contain unusual but trivial contributions (such as
the addition of __nonnull function attributes), or contain lines
dating back to the initial git revision (and so require manual
knowledge of the code's origin).
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Relicence files with kind permission from the following contributors:
Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
Greg Jednaszewski <jednaszewski@gmail.com>
H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Marin Hannache <git@mareo.fr>
Robin Smidsrød <robin@smidsrod.no>
Shao Miller <sha0.miller@gmail.com>
Thomas Horsten <thomas@horsten.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Relicense files authored by Dan Lynch while working as an employee of
Fen Systems Ltd., with permission from Fen Systems Ltd.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
The UBDL relicensing tool (util/relicense.pl) is designed to identify
files which may be relicensed under a dual GPL+UBDL licence. It uses
git-blame to identify the author of each line (using the -M and -C
options to track lines moved or copied between files), and relicenses
files for which all authors have given permission.
The relicensing tool will ignore certain types of lines identified by
git-blame:
- empty lines
- comments
- standalone opening or closing braces
- "#include ..."
- "return 0;"
- "return rc;"
- "PCI_ROM(...)"
- "FILE_LICENCE(...)"
These lines either contain no meaningful content (e.g. empty lines),
contain only non-copyrightable facts (e.g. PCI ROM IDs) or are
sufficiently common within the codebase that git-blame is likely to
misattribute their origin (e.g. "return 0").
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Add the text for the Unmodified Binary Distribution Licence. This
Licence allows for the distribution of unmodified binaries built from
publicly available source code, without imposing the obligations of
the GNU General Public License upon anyone who chooses to distribute
only the unmodified binaries built from that source code. See the
licence text for the precise terms and conditions.
Add the licence GPL2_OR_LATER_OR_UBDL to the set of licences which can
be declared using FILE_LICENCE(), and add the corresponding support to
licence.pl.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Add the standard warranty disclaimer and Free Software Foundation
address paragraphs to the licence text where these are not currently
present.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Update the GPLv2 licence text to the current version (with the current
address of the Free Software Foundation, and without the Y2k
compatibility issue).
Rename the GPLv2 licence text to COPYING.GPLv2 (to hopefully make it
clearer that the licence does not apply to all files within the source
tree) and rename COPYRIGHTS to COPYING.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Michael Brown