mbpool - buffer pools for network interfaces
MODULE_DEPEND (your_module libmbpool 1 1 1);
An example of these cards are the Fore/Marconi ForeRunnerHE cards. These employ up to 8 receive groups, each with two buffer pools, each of which can contain up to 8192. This gives a total maximum number of more than 100000 buffers. Even with a more moderate configuration the card eats several thousand buffers. Each of these buffers must be mapped for DMA. While for machines without an IOMMU and with lesser than 4GByte memory this is not a problem, for other machines this may quickly eat up all available IOMMU address space and/or bounce buffers. On sparc64, the default I/O page size is 16k, so mapping a simple mbuf wastes 31/32 of the address space.
Another problem with most of these cards is that they support putting a 32-bit handle into the buffer descriptor together with the physical address. This handle is reflected back to the driver when the buffer is filled, and assists the driver in finding the buffer in host memory. For 32-bit machines, the virtual address of the buffer is usually used as the handle. This does not work for 64-bit machines for obvious reasons, so a mapping is needed between these handles and the buffers. This mapping should be possible without searching lists and the like.
An mbuf pool overcomes both problems by allocating DMA-able memory page wise with a per-pool configurable page size. Each page is divided into a number of equally-sized chunks, the last MBPOOL_TRAILER_SIZE of which are used by the pool code (4 bytes). The rest of each chunk is usable as a buffer. There is a per-pool limit on pages that will be allocated.
Additionally, the code manages two flags for each buffer: ``on-card'' and ``used'' A buffer may be in one of three states:
A pool is created with
mbp_create (.);
This call specifies a DMA tag
Fa dmat
to be used to create and map the memory pages via
bus_dmamem_alloc9.
The
Fa chunk_size
includes the pool overhead.
It means that to get buffers for 5 ATM cells
(240 bytes), a chunk size of 256 should be specified.
This results in 12 unused
bytes between the buffer, and the pool overhead of four byte.
The total
maximum number of buffers in a pool is
Fa max_pages
*
Fa ( page_size
/
Fa chunk_size ) .
The maximum value for
Fa max_pages
is 2^14-1 (16383) and the maximum of
Fa page_size
/
Fa chunk_size
is 2^9 (512).
If the call is successful, a pointer to a newly allocated
Vt struct mbpool
is set into the variable pointed to by
Fa mpb .
A pool is destroyed with
mbp_destroy (.);
This frees all pages and the pool structure itself.
If compiled with
DIAGNOSTICS
the code checks that all buffers are free.
If not, a warning message is issued
to the console.
A buffer is allocated with
mbp_alloc (.);
This returns the virtual address of the buffer and stores the physical
address into the variable pointed to by
Fa pa .
The handle is stored into the variable pointed to by
Fa hp .
The two most significant bits and the 7 least significant bits of the handle
are unused by the pool code and may be used by the caller.
These are
automatically stripped when passing a handle to one of the other functions.
If a buffer cannot be allocated (either because the maximum number of pages
is reached, no memory is available or the memory cannot be mapped),
NULL
is returned.
If a buffer could be allocated, it is in the
``on-card''
state.
When the buffer is returned by the card, the driver calls
mbp_get ();
with the handle.
This function returns the virtual address of the buffer
and clears the
``on-card''
bit.
The buffer is now in the
``used''
state.
The function
mbp_get_keep ();
differs from
mbp_get ();
in that it does not clear the
``on-card''
bit.
This can be used for buffers
that are returned
``partially''
by the card.
A buffer is freed by calling
mbp_free ();
with the virtual address of the buffer.
This clears the
``used''
bit, and
puts the buffer on the free list of the pool.
Note that free buffers
are NOT returned to the system.
The function
mbp_ext_free ();
can be given to
m_extadd ();
as the free function.
The user argument must be the pointer to
the pool.
Before using the contents of a buffer returned by the card, the driver
must call
mbp_sync ();
with the appropriate parameters.
This results in a call to
bus_dmamap_sync9
for the buffer.
All buffers in the pool that are currently in the
``on-card''
state can be freed
with a call to
mbp_card_free (.);
This may be called by the driver when it stops the interface.
Buffers in the
``used''
state are not freed by this call.
For debugging it is possible to call
mbp_count (.);
This returns the number of buffers in the
``used''
and
``on-card''
states and
the number of buffers on the free list.
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