The comments repeated the documentation, described tests or explained
the code to its author. What stays describes the LACPDU structures. The
timer constants are decimal, in units of the LACP timer.
Both paths wrote the trunk registers directly and left the protocol
running on the group, so "lag show" said disabled while the partner kept
both links in one aggregate, and re-sending the LACP line did not repair
it because the same-ports shortcut returns early. Each path now releases
the group from LACP first; for a group that never ran LACP that is a
no-op.
Dynamic link aggregation on top of the static LAGG, for RTL8372/8373:
receive, selection and mux state machines (coupled mux, one aggregator
per group), with "lacp show" to look inside. Each of the four trunk
groups runs its own aggregator on the candidate ports assigned with
"lag <n> lacp <ports>"; the engine starts with the first such group and
stops with the last.
LACPDUs reach the CPU through the reserved-multicast trap, so delivery
needs no L2 entry and nothing written per VLAN or per PVID. The trap
acts on the address before the VLAN lookup and before the ingress
filters, so a LACPDU also arrives on a port that admits tagged frames
only and on a port STP holds in blocking, neither of which a forwarded
one reaches. A trapped frame carries no VLAN tag,
so lacp_in() takes the offset of the PDU body from TRAP_RX_BODY(). The
action is set with trap_rma_set(), which leaves the flags sharing that
register alone, and "lacp off" puts the slow-protocols drop default
back. doc/lacp.md and doc/link_aggregation.md record what was measured,
including why the trap looked like a dead end at first.
The web UI gets a Static/LACP mode per group on the LAG page with live
status, and the startup-config validator knows the per-group syntax. A
host-side sandbox for the state machines runs in the test harness
together with the LAG hash check. It drives both forms of an incoming
LACPDU, so the body offset of a trapped one is covered as well.
The L2 table page iterated with the "next unicast" read method, so
static multicast entries such as an IGMP group were invisible. It now
iterates with "next address", skips L3 entries (their layout carries IP
addresses where a MAC is expected), and reports the lowest member of a
multicast entry's port mask, so such an entry shows up as a static
entry on that port.
A port taken out of LACP forgets its partner, so "lacp show" after
"lacp off" no longer reports one. Applying the same candidate set to a
group again, as the LAG page does on every Apply, leaves the trunk
alone instead of tearing it down for a second or two. lacp_in() checks
the frame length and ethertype before reading a LACPDU, so a runt or a
foreign frame on the slow-protocols address cannot leave stale buffer
bytes as a partner. The sandbox covers these three in T20-T22. On the
LAG page, LACP mode with no ports checked sends "lag N lacp off", and
the startup-config validator wants at least one port after "lacp".
Needed to increase buffer size for this to send app.js
The logical port status is what is returned in the array, for
non-sequential systems we need to map through physToLog rather
than just subtracting 1
physToLog is 1 based! not 0; also fixing up typecasts
Reimplementing using an array of objects to represent ports.
The previous approach of a bitmask of logical ports, was just too
simple on devices such as the SWGT024_V2_0_MANAGED which has
gaps in the port assignments.
timing with ticks
Fixing up the log_to_phys_port assignment
2000 is about every 10 seconds, so scaling up to once every 30ish
Removing the attempt to block lldp frames,
This does not work however the hard work has been done for us in
the #514 so we can borrow that work later on
Moving the global on/off onto the LLDP page
Building a table of LLDP status from the S ports. Later on, if
we wish to implement an lldp receiver we can display the remote
details here
Adding support to the cmd parser for the lldp commands
to each port once every 30 seconds.
* Additionally fixes the on-ward passing of LLDP frames through
the switch
The ports on the case are marked 1-8 so this should reflect that
rather than being 0-based
We can send the hostname as well, this can be dynamically allocated
Let's send the model as the system description as well
leds_dump() printed the pin mux, the LED enables and every LED set on each
boot, from BANK2. It now lives in its own file in BANK3, where there is
room, and runs only on the new "leds" command, next to gpio and sds, so it
stays at hand for bringing up a new board without costing BANK2 or boot
output.
Follow-up to #494. Storm control (#455) was merged after it and brings
three objects in code space without const: the extern declaration of
machine in rtl837x_storm.c and the name tables storm_types and
storm_names. SDCC 4.6.0 reports them as warnings 356 and 357, which
fail the build with CI=1 (--Werror). SDCC 4.5, which the CI uses, does
not report them.
The declarations now take the form used in the rest of the tree, as in
mime_strings in httpd.c. The images for KP_9000_6XHML_X2 and
KP_9000_9XHML_X_V3_1 are byte-identical before and after.
Storm control used meters 0 to 39, the same meters the ACL hands out,
so a storm limit and an acl meter could overwrite each other. It now
uses 24 + port * 4 + type, meters 24 to 63.
parse_storm() is no longer reentrant and uses plain locals, looks the
type up in a while loop and returns straight from the one-line cases.
storm_show() uses plain locals too.
The documentation says how IGMP decides between mcast and umcast, how
to get from a meter index to its limit, where the IFG bit of a meter
is, and what an ingress bandwidth limit on the same port does to the
storm limit.
The switch has no battery backed clock, only a seconds counter that starts
at zero on every boot. An SNTP client keeps UTC as the time of the last
answer plus the seconds counted since: "ntp server <name|ip>", "ntp interval
<minutes>", "ntp timezone <+hh:mm>", "ntp dst off|eu|us", "ntp on|off",
"ntp" and "time". A server given by name goes through the DNS resolver, an
answer from an unsynchronised server is ignored, and a failed attempt is
repeated after 30 seconds.
The local time adds the time zone offset and, while the European or United
States rule says so, one hour. The date is split with a shift and subtract
division and a walk over the years, so no 32-bit division from the library
ends up in the common area.
The System page gets the NTP settings and shows the local time.
A small resolver for IPv4 address records, so that clients such as NTP can
be given a host name: "dns server <ip> [<ip>]", "dns lookup <name>" and
"dns". Without a configured server it uses the one DHCP handed out. A query
goes to the servers in turn every two seconds and gives up after six tries;
answers with compressed names and CNAME records ahead of the address are
understood. A name that already is a dotted address is taken without a
query.
The resolver sits in BANK3, the command line in BANK2 next to the helpers it
uses. The System page shows and sets the servers.
The name branch read the fourth word without checking that the line had
one, and the tokenizer does not reset unused word slots, so "port 5 name"
took the name from wherever the previous command's fourth word had been:
"port 5 name hello" followed by "port 5 name" gave "hello" again, and
after a longer line it gave the tail of that line. The web UI never sends
the form, the console can. With no argument the name is now empty, which
also gives the console a way to remove a name.
The receive interrupt was wired up but never used: EX1 was enabled, the
handler re-enabled itself and did nothing, and the mask bit for it in the
NIC stayed clear, so idle() read the receive buffer register on every
pass to find out whether a packet had arrived, and slept until the next
tick when none had. A packet that arrived during that sleep waited for
the tick: 2.2 ms on average, 5 ms at worst, for every frame the CPU
handles.
Now the handler latches rx_irq and masks itself, and idle() sleeps
unless a receive, a link change, a console command or the tick is
pending. On rx_irq the loop drains the buffer, clears the status bit and
re-enables EX1, in that order: the NIC holds the line as long as the
status bit is set, and the bit does not clear while the buffer still
holds a frame, so a frame that lands between the last read and EX1 = 1
raises the interrupt again rather than getting lost. The other order,
clearing before draining, left the line asserted and produced an
interrupt on every pass. The mask is written after nic_setup(), which
resets it.
Measured on an RTL8373 board with the same counters in both images,
clocked by the tick counter, traffic from a host behind an LACP trunk:
```
polling interrupt
idle, register ops/s 788 79
25 pps, RTT avg/max 2.19/4.96 0.44/0.75 ms
500 pps, RTT avg/max 2.78/5.06 0.39/5.40 ms
500 pps, loss 0.08% 0.08%
```
The handler compiles to clr EX1 / setb rx_irq / reti.
The timer interrupt now raises a tick flag too, so idle() no longer works
out TICKS_DUE twice per pass, and cmd_available moves from xdata to a
bit. The four wake-up flags sit in the low bits of one byte at 0x20, so
the sleep test is a single read of that byte. tx_buf_empty deliberately
stays out: it is 1 when there is nothing to do, so including it would
keep the sleep test from ever firing.
Two per-port MAC status registers that nothing in the firmware reads:
0x6408 says which end is master on a BASE-T link, 0x63FC and 0x6400 say
whether pause was negotiated in each direction. port <n> show prints
both at the end.
The read sits in rtl837x_port.c rather than phy_show(), because these
are MAC registers and phy_show() is skipped for SFP ports. Master/slave
keys off machine.is_sfp[] so it stays off the fibre ports, where the
notion does not apply.
Bit N of each register is chip port N, which is not how
RTL837X_REG_LINKS_STS indexes its bytes a few lines above in the same
header.
The counters, the phase hooks in idle() and the "health" command are now
behind HEALTH, set from the command line with HEALTH=1. Without it the
hooks are empty macros and the command does not exist, so a default build
carries none of it: on SWTGW218AS that is 1065 bytes of bank 2, 101 of the
common segment and 28 of xdata, plus seven banked calls per main-loop pass.
It is a developer's tool. Reading the dump takes knowing the main loop, and
a user who needs it for a report can build with the flag on, which is how
the kernel treats its lock and latency instrumentation as well.
The tcp slot dump printed the slot index behind `if (UIP_CONNS > 1)`, and
with one connection configured that is a constant-false condition around
live code: sdcc reported two "unreachable code" warnings for the body and
one "conditional flow changed by optimizer" for the loop that could only
run once.
Print the single slot directly and state the assumption as a build-time
check, so a build that raises UIP_CONNS fails loudly here instead of
quietly labelling every line as slot zero. Builds warning-free again.
Every probe of a misbehaving switch so far measured it from the
outside. This puts the witnesses inside.
Each idle() pass increments a loop counter and stamps a checkpoint
after every phase: link polling, SFP, RX, TX, STP and the command
dispatch. A phase spanning two or more system ticks counts as slow and
its worst time is kept, in 5 ms units. handle_rx counts frames, so the
dump separates a flooded CPU from a stalled loop.
At boot the free stack area is painted, preserving the interrupt state
around the painting, and the dump reports how much of the pattern
survives next to the live stack pointer. The TCP connection table is
printed whole: state, timers, retransmissions, ports and peer, next to
the httpd transfer state, so a permanently occupied slot names its
occupant. With more than one slot configured every slot is listed.
Everything is raw hex; two dumps a known time apart give the rates.
The implementation sits in cmd_parser next to the other command
handlers and needs no storage beyond its counters.
Building with SDCC 4.6.0 emits tons of warnings e.g.:
cmd_parser.c:31: warning 356: object in read-only code space should be const
cmd_parser.c:36: warning 357: pointer to object in read-only code space should be pointer to const
These of course become fatal when building with --Werror.
Comparing resultant binaries, it seems that a single string is shifted
(deduplication?) but the numbers emitted at the end of the build are
otherwise identical.
parse_eee() sniffs word 2 for a trailing 'g' or 'm' to tell a speed from
a port number, and advances idx past the digits to do so. The port branch
then hands that advanced idx to cmd_parse_port_separator(), which expects
the first character of the number and finds the separator instead, so it
returns 0 and the command is rejected. Every other caller passes
cmd_words_b[].
The result is that no eee command carrying a port number works, in any
argument order, and the stored per-port lines a saved configuration
replays are silently dropped.
Reported by tofurky in issue #459, along with this fix.
The chip has a pair of thermal meters and nothing was reading them. This adds a
`temp` command that prints the current reading next to the one taken at power-on.
The result register at 0x340 splits a 19 bit value across two fields: bits 18:3
live in the low 16 bits, bits 2:0 in bits 18:16, with the sign at bit 18, degrees
in 17:10 and a fraction below. The nice part of that layout is that the degrees
fall out of a shift of the low half, so the conversion stays 16 bit.
The meter comes out of reset latched: the register keeps whatever was measured
when the board powered up and then never moves. Four samples 40 s apart came back
identical down to the raw ADC, and 0x340 matched the power-on register at 0x350.
Clearing bit 2 of the control register at 0x338 during init is what makes it live.
Measured on an SWTGW218AS: 58.7 to 59.5 C while running, with the power-on
register still showing the 49.2 C it started from. For what it is worth, the
scale lines up three ways: the threshold register reads -40 and +125, the slope
from warm-up works out at 4450 LSB/C, and the slope between the two meters at
4388 LSB/C.
We only read the meter that is up after boot. The other sits in reset with no
coefficients, so it would just repeat its power-on value.
Costs 231 bytes in BANK2.
The helper landed between that comment and the function it describes, so the
comment now reads as if it belonged to name_char(). Moving the helper up puts
the two back together. The generated code is unchanged.
execute_config() replays the saved configuration line by line into
cmd_buffer. A line that does not fit, or one cmd_tokenize() rejects,
ended the replay right there: everything below it was silently left
unapplied, while the file itself and the editor showing it stayed
complete. On a switch here, a 130-byte line placed after the last real
setting was enough to lose every line that followed it on the next boot.
Report the offending line and carry on with the next one. The skip flag
lives across the flash page refill, so a long line that crosses a page
boundary is not resumed halfway and run as a truncated command.
The console, POST /cmd and the saved config all go through the command
parser, so one filter there covers every way a name can be set. The
hostname already did this inline; port and VLAN names now do it too.
The SFP strings still need escaping on the way out: they come from the
module's EEPROM, not from a command.
The messages said Error: themselves, or usage:, or nothing at all.
cmd_error() prints the prefix now, so every rejected command answers the
same way and the strings only carry what is specific to them.
Two messages that started with Error or refusing are reworded so the
prefix does not read twice. The syslog usage text becomes one string
instead of three calls.
run_cmd_body() answers POST /cmd with 400 when err_status is set, but
only the tokenizer set it. Every "Error:", "Invalid ..." and "Unknown
command" from the parsers went back as 200, so the web page reported the
command as applied, and save_cmd put the rejected line into the command
history, from where Save to flash wrote it into the startup config.
Set ERR_INVALID_ARGUMENT on every path that rejects a command: the err:
labels of the parsers, the parsers that print their own error, the
stp parser and the unknown command fallback. Warnings that still apply
the command, such as a full VLAN name table, are left alone.
Record a command in the history only when it was accepted, and let
execute_commands() report the first failure of a multi-line body, since
cmd_tokenize() clears err_status again for every following line.
The session timeout was a compile-time constant (200 s), so changing it
meant rebuilding the firmware. Make it a variable that keeps the same
default and add a "session <seconds>" command, so it can be set from
the console or from the startup configuration like the other settings.
Measured on KP_9000_9XHML_X_V3_1: ROM +180 bytes (BANK1 +17, BANK2
+161) and xdata +2 bytes; the internal RAM map is unchanged.
sfp.c takes handle_sfp, sfp_module_read, sfp_apply_quirks, sfp_get_info,
sfp_read_field, sfp_print_info, setup_sfp_gpio, the quirk table and the module
state that goes with them. Everything exported is __banked: handle_sfp() and
sfp_print_info() are reached from cmd_parser.c in BANK2, the rest from the
common area, and both are bank boundaries.
The quirk table needed checking rather than assuming. Its entries are __code
pointers, and a __code pointer carries no bank, so passing one to a function in
a different bank hands it an offset read through the wrong window. That is safe
here because strcmp() sits in the common segment at 0x51f and is reached with a
plain lcall, so the bank register still says 3 while it runs. Verified in the
built image: the table at 0x35580 holds 0x563c and 0x5644, which resolve to
"QSFPTEK" and "QT-SFP+-T" inside BANK3.
Common segment 13393 -> 8432 bytes, leaving 7492 free rather than 2531. BANK3
holds 5710, BANK1 is unchanged and BANK2 grows by 31 for the trampolines.
All 34 machines in machine.h build and link, and the same walk over the
generated assembly finds no plain lcall crossing a bank boundary.
parse_mac() now writes to the global mac_parse_result[6] and takes only the
index, like the other parsers (ip[4]). This drops the local __xdata buffer
and the now-unused hexval() helper.
Build (KP_9000_9XHML_X_V3_1): ROM 110302 -> 110193 bytes, XSEG and internal
RAM unchanged.