- at_ifawithnet(), which acquires an locks it needs and returns an
at_ifaddr reference.
- at_ifawithnet_locked(), which relies on the caller locking
at_ifaddr_list, and returns a pointer rather than a reference.
Update various consumers to prefer one or the other, including ether
and fddi output, to properly release at_ifaddr references.
Rework at_control() to manage locking and references in a manner
identical to in_control().
MFC after: 6 weeks
rather than pointers, requiring callers to properly dispose of those
references. The following routines now return references:
ifaddr_byindex
ifa_ifwithaddr
ifa_ifwithbroadaddr
ifa_ifwithdstaddr
ifa_ifwithnet
ifaof_ifpforaddr
ifa_ifwithroute
ifa_ifwithroute_fib
rt_getifa
rt_getifa_fib
IFP_TO_IA
ip_rtaddr
in6_ifawithifp
in6ifa_ifpforlinklocal
in6ifa_ifpwithaddr
in6_ifadd
carp_iamatch6
ip6_getdstifaddr
Remove unused macro which didn't have required referencing:
IFP_TO_IA6
This closes many small races in which changes to interface
or address lists while an ifaddr was in use could lead to use of freed
memory (etc). In a few cases, add missing if_addr_list locking
required to safely acquire references.
Because of a lack of deep copying support, we accept a race in which
an in6_ifaddr pointed to by mbuf tags and extracted with
ip6_getdstifaddr() doesn't hold a reference while in transmit. Once
we have mbuf tag deep copy support, this can be fixed.
Reviewed by: bz
Obtained from: Apple, Inc. (portions)
MFC after: 6 weeks (portions)
This change should make options VIMAGE kernel builds usable again,
to some extent at least.
Note that the size of struct vnet_inet has changed, though in
accordance with one-bump-per-day policy we didn't update the
__FreeBSD_version number, given that it has already been touched
by r194640 a few hours ago.
Reviewed by: bz
Approved by: julian (mentor)
- shrink size guards for vnet_net.
vnet_rtable does not need size guards as it is self-contained.
- remove a bunch of defines from vnet.h no longer valid.
Vimage module, which had been there already but now is stateful.
All variables are now file local; so this further limits the global
spreading of routing related things throughout the kernel.
Add a missing function local variable in case of MPATHing.
Reviewed by: zec
No longer export rt_tables as all lookups go through
rt_tables_get_rnh().
We cannot make rt_tables (and rtstat, rttrash[1]) static as
netstat -r (-rs[1]) would stop working on a stripped
VIMAGE_GLOBALS kernel.
Reviewed by: zec
Presumably broken by: phk 13.5y ago in r12820 [1]
a pointer to an ifaddr matching the passed socket address, returns a
boolean indicating whether one was present. In the (near) future,
ifa_ifwithaddr() will return a referenced ifaddr rather than a raw
ifaddr pointer, and the new wrapper will allow callers that care only
about the boolean condition to avoid having to free that reference.
MFC after: 3 weeks
- Unify reference count and lock initialization in a single function,
ifa_init().
- Move tear-down from a macro (IFAFREE) to a function ifa_free().
- Move reference count bump from a macro (IFAREF) to a function ifa_ref().
- Instead of using a u_int protected by a mutex to refcount(9) for
reference count management.
The ifa_mtx is now used for exactly one ioctl, and possibly should be
removed.
MFC after: 3 weeks
Add necessary changes to the kernel for this (basically introduce a
bpf_zero_counters() function). As well, update the man page.
MFC after: 1 month
Discussed with: rwatson
missing it.
Remove the "hidden" kernel only include of vimage.h from ip_var.h added
with the very first Vimage commit r181803 to avoid further kernel poisoning.
by if_free (w/o doing if_attach); move ifq_attach to if_alloc and
rename ifq_attach/detach to ifq_init/ifq_delete to better identify
their purpose
Reviewed by: jhb, kmacy
parameter "vnet" when it is created, a new vnet instance will be created
along with the jail. Networks interfaces can be moved between prisons
with an ioctl similar to the one that moves them between vimages.
For now vnets will co-exist under both jails and vimages, but soon
struct vimage will be going away.
Reviewed by: zec, julian
Approved by: bz (mentor)
queue was drained. It will never fire for a directly dispatched packet.
You will most likely never want to use this for any ordinary netisr usage
and you will never blame netisr in case you try to use it and it does
not work as expected.
Reviewed by: rwatson
actual implementation.
Remove the accessor functions for the compiled out case, just returning
"unavail" values. Remove the kernel conditional from the header file as
it is no longer needed, only leaving the externs.
Hide the improperly virtualized SYSCTL/TUNABLE for the flowtable size
under the kernel option as well.
Reviewed by: rwatson
Thanks to (no special order) Emmanuel Dreyfus (manu@netbsd.org), Larry
Baird (lab@gta.com), gnn, bz, and other FreeBSD devs, Julien Vanherzeele
(julien.vanherzeele@netasq.com, for years of bug reporting), the PFSense
team, and all people who used / tried the NAT-T patch for years and
reported bugs, patches, etc...
X-MFC: never
Reviewed by: bz
Approved by: gnn(mentor)
Obtained from: NETASQ
use IPv4/v6 for inter-node communication (according to my reading).
Properly wrap the carp callouts in INET || INET6 and refelect this
in sys/conf/files as well. While in theory this should be ok,
it might be a bit optimistic to think that carp could build with
inet6 only[1].
Discussed with: mlaier [1]
vnode interlock to protect the knote fields [1]. The locking assumes
that shared vnode lock is held, thus we get exclusive access to knote
either by exclusive vnode lock protection, or by shared vnode lock +
vnode interlock.
Do not use kl_locked() method to assert either lock ownership or the
fact that curthread does not own the lock. For shared locks, ownership
is not recorded, e.g. VOP_ISLOCKED can return LK_SHARED for the shared
lock not owned by curthread, causing false positives in kqueue subsystem
assertions about knlist lock.
Remove kl_locked method from knlist lock vector, and add two separate
assertion methods kl_assert_locked and kl_assert_unlocked, that are
supposed to use proper asserts. Change knlist_init accordingly.
Add convenience function knlist_init_mtx to reduce number of arguments
for typical knlist initialization.
Submitted by: jhb [1]
Noted by: jhb [2]
Reviewed by: jhb
Tested by: rnoland
So properly hide the already #ifdef SCTP code with
#if defined(INET) || defined(INET6) as well to get us
closer to a non-INET/INET6 kernel.
Discussed with: tuexen [1]
If packet leaves ipfw to other kernel subsystem (dummynet, netgraph, etc)
it carries pointer to matching ipfw rule. If this packet then reinjected back
to ipfw, ruleset processing starts from that rule. If rule was deleted
meanwhile, due to existed race condition panic was possible (as well as
other odd effects like parsing rules in 'reap list').
P.S. this commit changes ABI so userland ipfw related binaries should be
recompiled.
MFC after: 1 month
Tested by: Mikolaj Golub
the ROUTETABLES kernel option thus there is no need to include opt_route.h
anymore in all consumers of vnet.h and no longer depend on it for module
builds.
Remove the hidden include in flowtable.h as well and leave the two
explicit #includes in ip_input.c and ip_output.c.
Vnet modules and protocol domains may now register destructor
functions to clean up and release per-module state. The destructor
mechanisms can be triggered by invoking "vimage -d", or a future
equivalent command which will be provided via the new jail framework.
While this patch introduces numerous placeholder destructor functions,
many of those are currently incomplete, thus leaking memory or (even
worse) failing to stop all running timers. Many of such issues are
already known and will be incrementaly fixed over the next weeks in
smaller incremental commits.
Apart from introducing new fields in structs ifnet, domain, protosw
and vnet_net, which requires the kernel and modules to be rebuilt, this
change should have no impact on nooptions VIMAGE builds, since vnet
destructors can only be called in VIMAGE kernels. Moreover,
destructor functions should be in general compiled in only in
options VIMAGE builds, except for kernel modules which can be safely
kldunloaded at run time.
Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800097.
Reviewed by: bz, julian
Approved by: rwatson, kib (re), julian (mentor)
version field sent via gif(4)+if_bridge(4). The EtherIP
implementation found on FreeBSD 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 7.0, 7.1, and 7.2 had
an interoperability issue because it sent the incorrect EtherIP
packets and discarded the correct ones.
This change introduces the following two flags to gif(4):
accept_rev_ethip_ver: accepts both correct EtherIP packets and ones
with reversed version field, if enabled. If disabled, the gif
accepts the correct packets only. This flag is enabled by
default.
send_rev_ethip_ver: sends EtherIP packets with reversed version field
intentionally, if enabled. If disabled, the gif sends the correct
packets only. This flag is disabled by default.
These flags are stored in struct gif_softc and can be set by
ifconfig(8) on per-interface basis.
Note that this is an incompatible change of EtherIP with the older
FreeBSD releases. If you need to interoperate older FreeBSD boxes and
new versions after this commit, setting "send_rev_ethip_ver" is
needed.
Reviewed by: thompsa and rwatson
Spotted by: Shunsuke SHINOMIYA
PR: kern/125003
MFC after: 2 weeks
and used in a large number of files, but also because an increasing number
of incorrect uses of MAC calls were sneaking in due to copy-and-paste of
MAC-aware code without the associated opt_mac.h include.
Discussed with: pjd
+ move ipfw and dummynet hooks declarations to raw_ip.c (definitions
in ip_var.h) same as for most other global variables.
This removes some dependencies from ip_input.c;
+ remove the IPFW_LOADED macro, just test ip_fw_chk_ptr directly;
+ remove the DUMMYNET_LOADED macro, just test ip_dn_io_ptr directly;
+ move ip_dn_ruledel_ptr to ip_fw2.c which is the only file using it;
To be merged together with rev 193497
MFC after: 5 days
an accessor function to get the correct rnh pointer back.
Update netstat to get the correct pointer using kvm_read()
as well.
This not only fixes the ABI problem depending on the kernel
option but also permits the tunable to overwrite the kernel
option at boot time up to MAXFIBS, enlarging the number of
FIBs without having to recompile. So people could just use
GENERIC now.
Reviewed by: julian, rwatson, zec
X-MFC: not possible
required for options DEVICE_POLLING.
De-fragment the NETISR_ constant space and lower NETISR_MAXPROT from
32 to 16 -- when sizing queue arrays using this compile-time constant,
significant amounts of memory are saved.
Warn on the console when tunable values for netisr are automatically
adjusted during boot due to exceeding limits, invalid values, or as a
result of DEVICE_POLLING.
threads:
- Support up to one netisr thread per CPU, each processings its own
workstream, or set of per-protocol queues. Threads may be bound
to specific CPUs, or allowed to migrate, based on a global policy.
In the future it would be desirable to support topology-centric
policies, such as "one netisr per package".
- Allow each protocol to advertise an ordering policy, which can
currently be one of:
NETISR_POLICY_SOURCE: packets must maintain ordering with respect to
an implicit or explicit source (such as an interface or socket).
NETISR_POLICY_FLOW: make use of mbuf flow identifiers to place work,
as well as allowing protocols to provide a flow generation function
for mbufs without flow identifers (m2flow). Falls back on
NETISR_POLICY_SOURCE if now flow ID is available.
NETISR_POLICY_CPU: allow protocols to inspect and assign a CPU for
each packet handled by netisr (m2cpuid).
- Provide utility functions for querying the number of workstreams
being used, as well as a mapping function from workstream to CPU ID,
which protocols may use in work placement decisions.
- Add explicit interfaces to get and set per-protocol queue limits, and
get and clear drop counters, which query data or apply changes across
all workstreams.
- Add a more extensible netisr registration interface, in which
protocols declare 'struct netisr_handler' structures for each
registered NETISR_ type. These include name, handler function,
optional mbuf to flow ID function, optional mbuf to CPU ID function,
queue limit, and ordering policy. Padding is present to allow these
to be expanded in the future. If no queue limit is declared, then
a default is used.
- Queue limits are now per-workstream, and raised from the previous
IFQ_MAXLEN default of 50 to 256.
- All protocols are updated to use the new registration interface, and
with the exception of netnatm, default queue limits. Most protocols
register as NETISR_POLICY_SOURCE, except IPv4 and IPv6, which use
NETISR_POLICY_FLOW, and will therefore take advantage of driver-
generated flow IDs if present.
- Formalize a non-packet based interface between interface polling and
the netisr, rather than having polling pretend to be two protocols.
Provide two explicit hooks in the netisr worker for start and end
events for runs: netisr_poll() and netisr_pollmore(), as well as a
function, netisr_sched_poll(), to allow the polling code to schedule
netisr execution. DEVICE_POLLING still embeds single-netisr
assumptions in its implementation, so for now if it is compiled into
the kernel, a single and un-bound netisr thread is enforced
regardless of tunable configuration.
In the default configuration, the new netisr implementation maintains
the same basic assumptions as the previous implementation: a single,
un-bound worker thread processes all deferred work, and direct dispatch
is enabled by default wherever possible.
Performance measurement shows a marginal performance improvement over
the old implementation due to the use of batched dequeue.
An rmlock is used to synchronize use and registration/unregistration
using the framework; currently, synchronized use is disabled
(replicating current netisr policy) due to a measurable 3%-6% hit in
ping-pong micro-benchmarking. It will be enabled once further rmlock
optimization has taken place. However, in practice, netisrs are
rarely registered or unregistered at runtime.
A new man page for netisr will follow, but since one doesn't currently
exist, it hasn't been updated.
This change is not appropriate for MFC, although the polling shutdown
handler should be merged to 7-STABLE.
Bump __FreeBSD_version.
Reviewed by: bz
assigning ifnets from one vnet to another. Deletion of vnets is not
yet supported.
The interface is implemented as an ioctl extension so that no syscalls
had to be introduced. This should be acceptable given that the new
interface will be used for a short / interim period only, until the
new jail management framwork gains the capability of managing vnets.
This method for managing vimages / vnets has been in use for the past
7 years without any observable issues.
The userland tool to be used in conjunction with the interim API can be
found in p4: //depot/projects/vimage-commit2/src/usr.sbin/vimage/... and
will most probably never get commited to svn.
While here, bump copyright notices in kern_vimage.c and vimage.h to
cover work done in year 2009.
Approved by: julian (mentor)
Discussed with: bz, rwatson
CPU for too long period than necessary. Additively, interfaces are kept
polled (in the tick) even if no more packets are available.
In order to avoid such situations a new generic mechanism can be
implemented in proactive way, keeping track of the time spent on any
packet and fragmenting the time for any tick, stopping the processing
as soon as possible.
In order to implement such mechanism, the polling handler needs to
change, returning the number of packets processed.
While the intended logic is not part of this patch, the polling KPI is
broken by this commit, adding an int return value and the new flag
IFCAP_POLLING_NOCOUNT (which will signal that the return value is
meaningless for the installed handler and checking should be skipped).
Bump __FreeBSD_version in order to signal such situation.
Reviewed by: emaste
Sponsored by: Sandvine Incorporated
- Add rm_init_flags() and accept extended options only for that variation.
- Add a flags space specifically for rm_init_flags(), rather than borrowing
the lock_init() flag space.
- Define flag RM_RECURSE to use instead of LO_RECURSABLE.
- Define flag RM_NOWITNESS to allow an rmlock to be exempt from WITNESS
checking; this wasn't possible previously as rm_init() always passed
LO_WITNESS when initializing an rmlock's struct lock.
- Add RM_SYSINIT_FLAGS().
- Rename embedded mutex in rmlocks to make it more obvious what it is.
- Update consumers.
- Update man page.
by creating a child jail, which is visible to that jail and to any
parent jails. Child jails may be restricted more than their parents,
but never less. Jail names reflect this hierarchy, being MIB-style
dot-separated strings.
Every thread now points to a jail, the default being prison0, which
contains information about the physical system. Prison0's root
directory is the same as rootvnode; its hostname is the same as the
global hostname, and its securelevel replaces the global securelevel.
Note that the variable "securelevel" has actually gone away, which
should not cause any problems for code that properly uses
securelevel_gt() and securelevel_ge().
Some jail-related permissions that were kept in global variables and
set via sysctls are now per-jail settings. The sysctls still exist for
backward compatibility, used only by the now-deprecated jail(2) system
call.
Approved by: bz (mentor)
to optionally have overlapping unit numbers if attached in different
vnets.
At this stage if_loop is the only clonable ifnet class that has been
extended to allow for such overlapping allocation of unit numbers, i.e.
in each vnet it is possible to have a lo0 interface. Other clonable ifnet
classes remain to operate with traditional semantics, i.e. each instance
of a clonable ifnet will be assigned a globally unique unit number,
regardless in which vnet such an ifnet becomes instantiated.
While here, garbage collect unused _lo_list field in struct vnet_net,
as well as improve indentation for #defines in sys/net/vnet.h.
The layout of struct vnet_net has changed, therefore bump
__FreeBSD_version.
This change has no functional impact on nooptions VIMAGE kernel builds.
Reviewed by: bz, brooks
Approved by: julian (mentor)
for reassigning ifnets from one vnet to another.
if_vmove() works by calling a restricted subset of actions normally
executed by if_detach() on an ifnet in the current vnet, and then
switches to the target vnet and executes an appropriate subset of
if_attach() actions there.
if_attach() and if_detach() have become wrapper functions around
if_attach_internal() and if_detach_internal(), where the later
variants have an additional argument, a flag indicating whether a
full attach or detach sequence is to be executed, or only a
restricted subset suitable for moving an ifnet from one vnet to
another. Hence, if_vmove() will not call if_detach() and if_attach()
directly, but will call the if_detach_internal() and
if_attach_internal() variants instead, with the vmove flag set.
While here, staticize ifnet_setbyindex() since it is not referenced
from outside of sys/net/if.c.
Also rename ifccnt field in struct vimage to ifcnt, and do some minor
whitespace garbage collection where appropriate.
This change should have no functional impact on nooptions VIMAGE kernel
builds.
Reviewed by: bz, rwatson, brooks?
Approved by: julian (mentor)
route is also being deleted, the link-layer address table
(arp or nd6) will flush those L2 llinfo entries that match
the removed prefix.
Reviewed by: kmacy
direct dispatch policy for specific protocols (NETISR_USB). We leave
the additional 'flags' argument to netisr_register() for the time being,
even though it is no longer required.
previously always pointing to the default vnet context, to a
dynamically changing thread-local one. The currvnet context
should be set on entry to networking code via CURVNET_SET() macros,
and reverted to previous state via CURVNET_RESTORE(). Recursions
on curvnet are permitted, though strongly discuouraged.
This change should have no functional impact on nooptions VIMAGE
kernel builds, where CURVNET_* macros expand to whitespace.
The curthread->td_vnet (aka curvnet) variable's purpose is to be an
indicator of the vnet context in which the current network-related
operation takes place, in case we cannot deduce the current vnet
context from any other source, such as by looking at mbuf's
m->m_pkthdr.rcvif->if_vnet, sockets's so->so_vnet etc. Moreover, so
far curvnet has turned out to be an invaluable consistency checking
aid: it helps to catch cases when sockets, ifnets or any other
vnet-aware structures may have leaked from one vnet to another.
The exact placement of the CURVNET_SET() / CURVNET_RESTORE() macros
was a result of an empirical iterative process, whith an aim to
reduce recursions on CURVNET_SET() to a minimum, while still reducing
the scope of CURVNET_SET() to networking only operations - the
alternative would be calling CURVNET_SET() on each system call entry.
In general, curvnet has to be set in three typicall cases: when
processing socket-related requests from userspace or from within the
kernel; when processing inbound traffic flowing from device drivers
to upper layers of the networking stack, and when executing
timer-driven networking functions.
This change also introduces a DDB subcommand to show the list of all
vnet instances.
Approved by: julian (mentor)
active network stack instance. Turning on options VIMAGE at compile
time yields the following changes relative to default kernel build:
1) V_ accessor macros for virtualized variables resolve to structure
fields via base pointers, instead of being resolved as fields in global
structs or plain global variables. As an example, V_ifnet becomes:
options VIMAGE: ((struct vnet_net *) vnet_net)->_ifnet
default build: vnet_net_0._ifnet
options VIMAGE_GLOBALS: ifnet
2) INIT_VNET_* macros will declare and set up base pointers to be used
by V_ accessor macros, instead of resolving to whitespace:
INIT_VNET_NET(ifp->if_vnet); becomes
struct vnet_net *vnet_net = (ifp->if_vnet)->mod_data[VNET_MOD_NET];
3) Memory for vnet modules registered via vnet_mod_register() is now
allocated at run time in sys/kern/kern_vimage.c, instead of per vnet
module structs being declared as globals. If required, vnet modules
can now request the framework to provide them with allocated bzeroed
memory by filling in the vmi_size field in their vmi_modinfo structures.
4) structs socket, ifnet, inpcbinfo, tcpcb and syncache_head are
extended to hold a pointer to the parent vnet. options VIMAGE builds
will fill in those fields as required.
5) curvnet is introduced as a new global variable in options VIMAGE
builds, always pointing to the default and only struct vnet.
6) struct sysctl_oid has been extended with additional two fields to
store major and minor virtualization module identifiers, oid_v_subs and
oid_v_mod. SYSCTL_V_* family of macros will fill in those fields
accordingly, and store the offset in the appropriate vnet container
struct in oid_arg1.
In sysctl handlers dealing with virtualized sysctls, the
SYSCTL_RESOLVE_V_ARG1() macro will compute the address of the target
variable and make it available in arg1 variable for further processing.
Unused fields in structs vnet_inet, vnet_inet6 and vnet_ipfw have
been deleted.
Reviewed by: bz, rwatson
Approved by: julian (mentor)
rearrange / replace / adjust several INIT_VNET_* initializer
macros, all of which currently resolve to whitespace.
Reviewed by: bz (an older version of the patch)
Approved by: julian (mentor)
interface pointer, but also a reference to it.
Modify ifioctl() to use ifunit_ref(), holding the reference until
all ioctls, etc, have completed.
This closes a class of reader-writer races in which interfaces
could be removed during long-running ioctls, leading to crashes.
Many other consumers of ifunit() should now use ifunit_ref() to
avoid similar races.
MFC after: 3 weeks
pointers to "dead" implementations that no-op rather than invoking
the device driver. This would generally be unexpected and
possibly quite badly handled by most device drivers after
if_detach() has completed.
Reviewed by: bms
MFC after: 3 weeks
if_alloc(), and portions of data structure destruction from if_detach()
to if_free(). These changes leave more of the struct ifnet in a
safe-to-access condition between alloc and attach, and between detach
and free, and focus on attach/detach as stack usage events rather than
data structure initialization.
Affected fields include the linkstate task queue, if_afdata lock,
address lists, kqueue state, and MAC labels. ifq_attach() ifq_detach()
are not moved as ifq_attach() may use a queue length set by the device
driver between if_alloc() and if_attach().
MFC after: 3 weeks
calls if_free(), and remains set if the refcount is elevated. IF_DYING
skips the bit in the if_flags bitmask previously used by IFF_NEEDSGIANT,
so that an MFC can be done without changing which bit is used, as
IFF_NEEDSGIANT is still present in 7.x.
ifnet_byindex_ref() checks for IFF_DYING and returns NULL if it is set,
preventing new references from by acquired by index, preventing
monitoring sysctls from seeing it. Other lookup mechanisms currently
do not check IFF_DYING, but may need to in the future.
MFC after: 3 weeks
after the corresponding interface has been destroyed:
(1) Add an ifnet refcount, ifp->if_refcount. Initialize it to 1 in
if_alloc(), and modify if_free_type() to decrement and check the
refcount.
(2) Add new if_ref() and if_rele() interfaces to allow kernel code
walking global interface lists to release IFNET_[RW]LOCK() yet
keep the ifnet stable. Currently, if_rele() is a no-op wrapper
around if_free(), but this may change in the future.
(3) Add new ifnet field, if_alloctype, which caches the type passed
to if_alloc(), but unlike if_type, won't be changed by drivers.
This allows asynchronous free's of the interface after the
driver has released it to still use the right type. Use that
instead of the type passed to if_free_type(), but assert that
they are the same (might have to rethink this if that doesn't
work out).
(4) Add a new ifnet_byindex_ref(), which looks up an interface by
index and returns a reference rather than a pointer to it.
(5) Fix if_alloc() to fully initialize the if_addr_mtx before hooking
up the ifnet to global lists.
(6) Modify sysctls in if_mib.c to use ifnet_byindex_ref() and release
the ifnet when done.
When this change is MFC'd, it will need to replace if_ispare fields
rather than adding new fields in order to avoid breaking the binary
interface. Once this change is MFC'd, if_free_type() should be
removed, as its 'type' argument is now optional.
This refcount is not appropriate for counting mbuf pkthdr references,
and also not for counting entry into the device driver via ifnet
function pointers. An rmlock may be appropriate for the latter.
Rather, this is about ensuring data structure stability when reaching
an ifnet via global ifnet lists and tables followed by copy in or out
of userspace.
MFC after: 3 weeks
Reported by: mdtancsa
Reviewed by: brooks
- fix bug where tail pointer of the free list would not get advanced
- clear entry's next pointer when it is added to the freelist to avoid freeing
an entry that it still points to
as well as providing stateful load balancing when used with RADIX_MPATH.
- Currently compiled in to i386 and amd64 but disabled by default, it can be enabled at
runtime with 'sysctl net.inet.flowtable.enable=1'.
- Embedded users can remove it entirely from the kernel by adding 'nooption FLOWTABLE' to
their kernel config files.
- A minimal hookup will be added to ip_output in a subsequent commit. I would like to see
more review before bringing in changes that require more churn.
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