IFC @247348.

Sync with HEAD.

control some debugging messages with dev.netmap.verbose

add infrastracture to adapt to changes in number of queues
and buffers at runtime

MFC

MFC @ r241285

IFC @ r242684

Sync from head

Use M_NOWAIT when calling malloc with a lock held.

The check for a NULL return was already in place so I assume this was just
an oversight.

This is an import of code, mostly from Giuseppe Lettieri,
that revises the netmap memory allocator so that the
various parameters (number and size of buffers, rings, descriptors)
can be modified at r

This is an import of code, mostly from Giuseppe Lettieri,
that revises the netmap memory allocator so that the
various parameters (number and size of buffers, rings, descriptors)
can be modified at runtime through sysctl variables.
The changes become effective when no netmap clients are active.

The API is mostly unchanged, although the NIOCUNREGIF ioctl now
does not bring the interface back to normal mode: and you
need to close the file descriptor for that.
This change was necessary to track who is using the mapped region,
and since it is a simplification of the API there was no
incentive in trying to preserve NIOCUNREGIF.
We will remove the ioctl from the kernel next time we need
a real API change (and version bump).

Among other things, buffer allocation when opening devices is
now much faster: it used to take O(N^2) time, now it is linear.

Submitted by: Giuseppe Lettieri

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Avoid panic when a netmap instance cannot obtain memory.

A uint32_t is always >= 0.

Sponsored by: ADARA Networks

Merge head r233826 through r239010.

- move the inclusion of netmap headers to the common part of the code;
- more portable annotations for unused arguments;

Add support for VALE bridges to the netmap core, see

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

VALE lets you dynamically instantiate multiple software bridges
that talk the netmap API (and are *ext

Add support for VALE bridges to the netmap core, see

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

VALE lets you dynamically instantiate multiple software bridges
that talk the netmap API (and are *extremely* fast), so you can test
netmap applications without the need for high end hardware.

This is particularly useful as I am completing a netmap-aware
version of ipfw, and VALE provides an excellent testing platform.

Also, I also have netmap backends for qemu mostly ready for commit
to the port, and this too will let you interconnect virtual machines
at high speed without fiddling with bridges, tap or other slow solutions.

The API for applications is unchanged, so you can use the code
in tools/tools/netmap (which i will update soon) on the VALE ports.

This commit also syncs the code with the one in my internal repository,
so you will see some conditional code for other platforms.
The code should run mostly unmodified on stable/9 so people interested
in trying it can just copy sys/dev/netmap/ and sys/net/netmap*.h
from HEAD

VALE is joint work with my colleague Giuseppe Lettieri, and
is partly supported by the EU Projects CHANGE and OPENLAB

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MFC

Merge head r233826 through r234834.

IFC @ r234692

sys/amd64/include/cpufunc.h
sys/amd64/include/fpu.h
sys/amd64/amd64/fpu.c
sys/amd64/vmm/vmm.c

- Add API to allow vmm FPU state init/save/restore.

FP stuff discussed with: kib

i prefer this fix for the -Wformat warning (just one cast,
all the other variables are already correct for %x).
My previous attempt put the cast in the wrong place.

Make compile on 64bit somehow for now after a first try at r234242 on
maybe 32bit?

fix build with -Wformat -Wmissing-prototypes

add the new memory allocator for netmap, which allocates memory
in small clusters instead of one big contiguous chunk.
This was already enabled in the previous commit.

i prefer this fix for the -Wformat warning (just one cast,
all the other variables are already correct for %x).
My previous attempt put the cast in the wrong place.

Make compile on 64bit somehow for now after a first try at r234242 on
maybe 32bit?

fix build with -Wformat -Wmissing-prototypes

add the new memory allocator for netmap, which allocates memory
in small clusters instead of one big contiguous chunk.
This was already enabled in the previous commit.