Remove all variations of rtrequest <rtrequest1_fib, rtrequest_fib,
in6_rtrequest, rtrequest_fib> and their uses and switch to
to rib_action(). This is part of the new routing KPI.
Submitted by: Neel Chauhan <neel AT neelc DOT org>
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D25546
Remove all variations of rtrequest <rtrequest1_fib, rtrequest_fib,
in6_rtrequest, rtrequest_fib> and their uses and switch to
to rib_action(). This is part of the new routing KPI.
Submitted by: Neel Chauhan <neel AT neelc DOT org>
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D25546
Old subscription model allowed only single customer.
Switch inet6 to the new subscription api and eliminate the old model.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D25615
The main driver for the change is the need to improve notification mechanism.
Currently callers guess the operation data based on the rtentry structure
returned in case of successful operation result. There are two problems with
this appoach. First is that it doesn't provide enough information for the
upcoming multipath changes, where rtentry refers to a new nexthop group,
and there is no way of guessing which paths were added during the change.
Second is that some rtentry fields can change during notification and
protecting from it by requiring customers to unlock rtentry is not desired.
Additionally, as the consumers such as rtsock do know which operation they
request in advance, making explicit add/change/del versions of the functions
makes sense, especially given the functions don't share a lot of code.
With that in mind, introduce rib_cmd_info notification structure and
rib_<add|del|change>_route() functions, with mandatory rib_cmd_info pointer.
It will be used in upcoming generalized notifications.
* Move definitions of the new functions and some other functions/structures
used for the routing table manipulation to a separate header file,
net/route/route_ctl.h. net/route.h is a frequently used file included in
~140 places in kernel, and 90% of the users don't need these definitions.
Reviewed by: ae
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D25067
The main driver for the change is the need to improve notification mechanism.
Currently callers guess the operation data based on the rtentry structure
returned in case of successful operation result. There are two problems with
this appoach. First is that it doesn't provide enough information for the
upcoming multipath changes, where rtentry refers to a new nexthop group,
and there is no way of guessing which paths were added during the change.
Second is that some rtentry fields can change during notification and
protecting from it by requiring customers to unlock rtentry is not desired.
Additionally, as the consumers such as rtsock do know which operation they
request in advance, making explicit add/change/del versions of the functions
makes sense, especially given the functions don't share a lot of code.
With that in mind, introduce rib_cmd_info notification structure and
rib_<add|del|change>_route() functions, with mandatory rib_cmd_info pointer.
It will be used in upcoming generalized notifications.
* Move definitions of the new functions and some other functions/structures
used for the routing table manipulation to a separate header file,
net/route/route_ctl.h. net/route.h is a frequently used file included in
~140 places in kernel, and 90% of the users don't need these definitions.
Reviewed by: ae
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D25067
After converting routing subsystem customers to use nexthop objects
defined in r359823, some fields in struct rtentry became unused.
This commit removes rt_ifp, rt_ifa, rt_gateway and rt_mtu from struct rtentry
along with the code initializing and updating these fields.
Cleanup of the remaining fields will be addressed by D24669.
This commit also changes the implementation of the RTM_CHANGE handling.
Old implementation tried to perform the whole operation under radix WLOCK,
resulting in slow performance and hacks like using RTF_RNH_LOCKED flag.
New implementation looks up the route nexthop under radix RLOCK, creates new
nexthop and tries to update rte nhop pointer. Only last part is done under
WLOCK.
In the hypothetical scenarious where multiple rtsock clients
repeatedly issue RTM_CHANGE requests for the same route, route may get
updated between read and update operation. This is addressed by retrying
the operation multiple (3) times before returning failure back to the
caller.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D24666
Nexthop objects implementation, defined in r359823,
introduced sys/net/route directory intended to hold all
routing-related code. Move recently-introduced route_temporal.c and
private route_var.h header there.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D24597
r360292 switched most of the remaining routing customers to a new KPI,
leaving a bunch of wrappers for old routing lookup functions unused.
Remove them from the tree as a part of routing cleanup.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D24569
This is the foundational change for the routing subsytem rearchitecture.
More details and goals are available in https://reviews.freebsd.org/D24141 .
This patch introduces concept of nexthop objects and new nexthop-based
routing KPI.
Nexthops are objects, containing all necessary information for performing
the packet output decision. Output interface, mtu, flags, gw address goes
there. For most of the cases, these objects will serve the same role as
the struct rtentry is currently serving.
Typically there will be low tens of such objects for the router even with
multiple BGP full-views, as these objects will be shared between routing
entries. This allows to store more information in the nexthop.
New KPI:
struct nhop_object *fib4_lookup(uint32_t fibnum, struct in_addr dst,
uint32_t scopeid, uint32_t flags, uint32_t flowid);
struct nhop_object *fib6_lookup(uint32_t fibnum, const struct in6_addr *dst6,
uint32_t scopeid, uint32_t flags, uint32_t flowid);
These 2 function are intended to replace all all flavours of
<in_|in6_>rtalloc[1]<_ign><_fib>, mpath functions and the previous
fib[46]-generation functions.
Upon successful lookup, they return nexthop object which is guaranteed to
exist within current NET_EPOCH. If longer lifetime is desired, one can
specify NHR_REF as a flag and get a referenced version of the nexthop.
Reference semantic closely resembles rtentry one, allowing sed-style conversion.
Additionally, another 2 functions are introduced to support uRPF functionality
inside variety of our firewalls. Their primary goal is to hide the multipath
implementation details inside the routing subsystem, greatly simplifying
firewalls implementation:
int fib4_lookup_urpf(uint32_t fibnum, struct in_addr dst, uint32_t scopeid,
uint32_t flags, const struct ifnet *src_if);
int fib6_lookup_urpf(uint32_t fibnum, const struct in6_addr *dst6, uint32_t scopeid,
uint32_t flags, const struct ifnet *src_if);
All functions have a separate scopeid argument, paving way to eliminating IPv6 scope
embedding and allowing to support IPv4 link-locals in the future.
Structure changes:
* rtentry gets new 'rt_nhop' pointer, slightly growing the overall size.
* rib_head gets new 'rnh_preadd' callback pointer, slightly growing overall sz.
Old KPI:
During the transition state old and new KPI will coexists. As there are another 4-5
decent-sized conversion patches, it will probably take a couple of weeks.
To support both KPIs, fields not required by the new KPI (most of rtentry) has to be
kept, resulting in the temporary size increase.
Once conversion is finished, rtentry will notably shrink.
More details:
* architectural overview: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D24141
* list of the next changes: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D24232
Reviewed by: ae,glebius(initial version)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D24232
Split their functionality by moving random seed allocation
to SYSINIT and calling (new) generic multipath function from
standard IPv4/IPv5 RIB init handlers.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D24356
Redirect (and temporal) route expiration was broken a while ago.
This change brings route expiration back, with unified IPv4/IPv6 handling code.
It introduces net.inet.icmp.redirtimeout sysctl, allowing to set
an expiration time for redirected routes. It defaults to 10 minutes,
analogues with net.inet6.icmp6.redirtimeout.
Implementation uses separate file, route_temporal.c, as route.c is already
bloated with tons of different functions.
Internally, expiration is implemented as an per-rnh callout scheduled when
route with non-zero rt_expire time is added or rt_expire is changed.
It does not add any overhead when no temporal routes are present.
Callout traverses entire routing tree under wlock, scheduling expired routes
for deletion and calculating the next time it needs to be run. The rationale
for such implemention is the following: typically workloads requiring large
amount of routes have redirects turned off already, while the systems with
small amount of routes will not inhibit large overhead during tree traversal.
This changes also fixes netstat -rn display of route expiration time, which
has been broken since the conversion from kread() to sysctl.
Reviewed by: bz
MFC after: 3 weeks
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D23075
Having metadata such as fibnum or vnet in the struct rib_head
is handy as it eases building functionality in the routing space.
This change is required to properly bring back route redirect support.
Reviewed by: bz
MFC after: 3 weeks
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D23047
The code in questions walks IPv6 tree every 60 seconds and looks into
the routes with non-zero expiration time (typically, redirected routes).
For each such route it sets RTF_PROBEMTU flag at the expiration time.
No other part of the kernel checks for RTF_PROBEMTU flag.
RTF_PROBEMTU was defined 21 years ago, 30 Jun 1999, as RTF_PROTO1.
RTF_PROTO1 is a de-facto standard indication of a route installed
by a routing daemon for a last decade.
Reviewed by: bz, ae
MFC after: 2 weeks
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D22865
Mainly focus on files that use BSD 3-Clause license.
The Software Package Data Exchange (SPDX) group provides a specification
to make it easier for automated tools to detect and summarize well known
opensource licenses. We are gradually adopting the specification, noting
that the tags are considered only advisory and do not, in any way,
superceed or replace the license texts.
Special thanks to Wind River for providing access to "The Duke of
Highlander" tool: an older (2014) run over FreeBSD tree was useful as a
starting point.
back and harmize the use cases among RIB, IPFW, PF yet but it's also not
the scope of this work. Prevents instant panics on teardown and frees
the FIB bits again.
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
There are number of radix consumers in kernel land (pf,ipfw,nfs,route)
with different requirements. In fact, first 3 don't have _any_ requirements
and first 2 does not use radix locking. On the other hand, routing
structure do have these requirements (rnh_gen, multipath, custom
to-be-added control plane functions, different locking).
Additionally, radix should not known anything about its consumers internals.
So, radix code now uses tiny 'struct radix_head' structure along with
internal 'struct radix_mask_head' instead of 'struct radix_node_head'.
Existing consumers still uses the same 'struct radix_node_head' with
slight modifications: they need to pass pointer to (embedded)
'struct radix_head' to all radix callbacks.
Routing code now uses new 'struct rib_head' with different locking macro:
RADIX_NODE_HEAD prefix was renamed to RIB_ (which stands for routing
information base).
New net/route_var.h header was added to hold routing subsystem internal
data. 'struct rib_head' was placed there. 'struct rtentry' will also
be moved there soon.
This check was added in initial? netinet6/ import
back in 1999 (r53541).
It effectively became unnecessary after 'address/prefix clean-ups'
KAME commit 90ff8792e676132096a440dd787f99a5a5860ee8 (github) in 2001
(merged to FreeBSD in r78064) where prefix check was added to
nd6_prefix_onlink(). Similar IPv4 check (in_addroute() was added
in r137628).
Additionally, the right plance for this (or similar) check is the prefix
addition code (nd6_prefix_onlink(), nd6_prefix_onlink_rtrequest(),
in_addprefix() or rtinit()), but not the generic radix insert routine.
Reported by: Matthew D. Fuller (fullermd over-yonder.net),
Kevin Bowling (kevin.bowling kev009.com)
MFC after: 13 days
X-MFC with: r292601
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
on vnet enabled jail shutdown. Call the provided cleanup
routines for IP versions 4 and 6 to plug these leaks.
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC atfer: 2 weeks
Reviewed by: gnn
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D4530
* Move interface route cleanup to route.c:rt_flushifroutes()
* Convert most of "for (fibnum = 0; fibnum < rt_numfibs; fibnum++)" users
to use new rt_foreach_fib() instead of hand-rolling cycles.
years for head. However, it is continuously misused as the mpsafe argument
for callout_init(9). Deprecate the flag and clean up callout_init() calls
to make them more consistent.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D2613
Reviewed by: jhb
MFC after: 2 weeks
Initially in_matrote() in_clsroute() in their current state was introduced by
r4105 20 years ago. Instead of deleting inactive routes immediately, we kept them
in route table, setting RTPRF_OURS flag and some expire time. After that, either
GC came or RTPRF_OURS got removed on first-packet. It was a good solution
in that days (and probably another decade after that) to keep TCP metrics.
However, after moving metrics to TCP hostcache in r122922, most of in_rmx
functionality became unused. It might had been used for flushing icmp-originated
routes before rte mutexes/refcounting, but I'm not sure about that.
So it looks like this is nearly impossible to make GC do its work nowadays:
in_rtkill() ignores non-RTPRF_OURS routes.
route can only become RTPRF_OURS after dropping last reference via rtfree()
which calls in_clsroute(), which, it turn, ignores UP and non-RTF_DYNAMIC routes.
Dynamic routes can still be installed via received redirect, but they
have default lifetime (no specific rt_expire) and no one has another trie walker
to call RTFREE() on them.
So, the changelist:
* remove custom rnh_match / rnh_close matching function.
* remove all GC functions
* partially revert r256695 (proto3 is no more used inside kernel,
it is not possible to use rt_expire from user point of view, proto3 support
is not complete)
* Finish r241884 (similar to this commit) and remove remaining IPv6 parts
MFC after: 1 month
Some virtual if drivers has (ab)used ifa ifa_rtrequest hook to enforce
route MTU to be not bigger that interface MTU. While ifa_rtrequest hooking
might be an option in some situation, it is not feasible to do MTU checks
there: generic (or per-domain) routing code is perfectly capable of doing
this.
We currrently have 3 places where MTU is altered:
1) route addition.
In this case domain overrides radix _addroute callback (in[6]_addroute)
and all necessary checks/fixes are/can be done there.
2) route change (especially, GW change).
In this case, there are no explicit per-domain calls, but one can
override rte by setting ifa_rtrequest hook to domain handler
(inet6 does this).
3) ifconfig ifaceX mtu YYYY
In this case, we have no callbacks, but ip[6]_output performes runtime
checks and decreases rt_mtu if necessary.
Generally, the goals are to be able to handle all MTU changes in
control plane, not in runtime part, and properly deal with increased
interface MTU.
This commit changes the following:
* removes hooks setting MTU from drivers side
* adds proper per-doman MTU checks for case 1)
* adds generic MTU check for case 2)
* The latter is done by using new dom_ifmtu callback since
if_mtu denotes L3 interface MTU, e.g. maximum trasmitted _packet_ size.
However, IPv6 mtu might be different from if_mtu one (e.g. default 1280)
for some cases, so we need an abstract way to know maximum MTU size
for given interface and domain.
* moves rt_setmetrics() before MTU/ifa_rtrequest hooks since it copies
user-supplied data which must be checked.
* removes RT_LOCK_ASSERT() from other ifa_rtrequest hooks to be able to
use this functions on new non-inserted rte.
More changes will follow soon.
MFC after: 1 month
Sponsored by: Yandex LLC
According to IANA RPC uaddr registry, there are no AFs
except IPv4 and IPv6, so it's not worth being too abstract here.
Remove ne_rtable[AF_MAX+1] and use explicit per-AF radix tries.
Use own initialization without relying on domattach code.
While I admit that this was one of the rare places in kernel
networking code which really was capable of doing multi-AF
without any AF-depended code, it is not possible anymore to
rely on dom* code.
While here, change terrifying "Invalid radix node head, rn:" message,
to different non-understandable "netcred already exists for given addr/mask",
but less terrifying. Since we know that rn_addaddr() returns NULL if
the same record already exists, we should provide more friendly error.
MFC after: 1 month
- Use counter(9) for rt_pksent (former rt_rmx.rmx_pksent). This
removes another cache trashing ++ from packet forwarding path.
- Create zini/fini methods for the rtentry UMA zone. Via initialize
mutex and counter in them.
- Fix reporting of rmx_pksent to routing socket.
- Fix netstat(1) to report "Use" both in kvm(3) and sysctl(3) mode.
The change is mostly targeted for stable/10 merge. For head,
rt_pksent is expected to just disappear.
Discussed with: melifaro
Sponsored by: Netflix
Sponsored by: Nginx, Inc.
to this event, adding if_var.h to files that do need it. Also, include
all includes that now are included due to implicit pollution via if_var.h
Sponsored by: Netflix
Sponsored by: Nginx, Inc.
are using (different) ND-based approach described in RFC 4861. This change
is similar to r241406 which conditionally skips the same check in IPv4.
This change is part of bigger patch eliminating rte locking.
Sponsored by: Yandex LLC.
OK'd by: hrs
MFC after: 2 weeks
the original IPv4 implementation from r178888:
- Use RT_DEFAULT_FIB in the IPv4 implementation where noticed.
- Use rt*fib() KPI with explicit RT_DEFAULT_FIB where applicable in
the NFS code.
- Use the new in6_rt* KPI in TCP, gif(4), and the IPv6 network stack
where applicable.
- Split in6_rtqtimo() and in6_mtutimo() as done in IPv4 and equally
prevent multiple initializations of callouts in in6_inithead().
- Use wrapper functions where needed to preserve the current KPI to
ease MFCs. Use BURN_BRIDGES to indicate expected future cleanup.
- Fix (related) comments (both technical or style).
- Convert to rtinit() where applicable and only use custom loops where
currently not possible otherwise.
- Multicast group, most neighbor discovery address actions and faith(4)
are locked to the default FIB. Individual IPv6 addresses will only
appear in the default FIB, however redirect information and prefixes
of connected subnets are automatically propagated to all FIBs by
default (mimicking IPv4 behavior as closely as possible).
Sponsored by: Cisco Systems, Inc.
DPCPU_DEFINE and VNET_DEFINE macros, as these cause problems for various
people working on the affected files. A better long-term solution is
still being considered. This reversal may give some modules empty
set_pcpu or set_vnet sections, but these are harmless.
Changes reverted:
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r215318 | dim | 2010-11-14 21:40:55 +0100 (Sun, 14 Nov 2010) | 4 lines
Instead of unconditionally emitting .globl's for the __start_set_xxx and
__stop_set_xxx symbols, only emit them when the set_vnet or set_pcpu
sections are actually defined.
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r215317 | dim | 2010-11-14 21:38:11 +0100 (Sun, 14 Nov 2010) | 3 lines
Apply the STATIC_VNET_DEFINE and STATIC_DPCPU_DEFINE macros throughout
the tree.
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r215316 | dim | 2010-11-14 21:23:02 +0100 (Sun, 14 Nov 2010) | 2 lines
Add macros to define static instances of VNET_DEFINE and DPCPU_DEFINE.
un-expiring.
The previous version of code have no locking when testing rt_refcnt.
The result of the lack of locking may result in a condition where
a routing entry have a reference count but at the same time have
RTPRF_OURS bit set and an expiration timer. These would eventually
lead to a panic:
panic: rtqkill route really not free
When the system have ICMP redirects accepted from local gateway
in a moderate frequency, for instance.
Commit this workaround for now until we have some better solution.
PR: kern/149804
Reviewed by: bz
Tested by: Zhao Xin, Pete French
MFC after: 2 weeks
"Whitspace" churn after the VIMAGE/VNET whirls.
Remove the need for some "init" functions within the network
stack, like pim6_init(), icmp_init() or significantly shorten
others like ip6_init() and nd6_init(), using static initialization
again where possible and formerly missed.
Move (most) variables back to the place they used to be before the
container structs and VIMAGE_GLOABLS (before r185088) and try to
reduce the diff to stable/7 and earlier as good as possible,
to help out-of-tree consumers to update from 6.x or 7.x to 8 or 9.
This also removes some header file pollution for putatively
static global variables.
Revert VIMAGE specific changes in ipfilter::ip_auth.c, that are
no longer needed.
Reviewed by: jhb
Discussed with: rwatson
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Sponsored by: CK Software GmbH
MFC after: 6 days
vnet.h, we now use jails (rather than vimages) as the abstraction
for virtualization management, and what remained was specific to
virtual network stacks. Minor cleanups are done in the process,
and comments updated to reflect these changes.
Reviewed by: bz
Approved by: re (vimage blanket)
(DPCPU), as suggested by Peter Wemm, and implement a new per-virtual
network stack memory allocator. Modify vnet to use the allocator
instead of monolithic global container structures (vinet, ...). This
change solves many binary compatibility problems associated with
VIMAGE, and restores ELF symbols for virtualized global variables.
Each virtualized global variable exists as a "reference copy", and also
once per virtual network stack. Virtualized global variables are
tagged at compile-time, placing the in a special linker set, which is
loaded into a contiguous region of kernel memory. Virtualized global
variables in the base kernel are linked as normal, but those in modules
are copied and relocated to a reserved portion of the kernel's vnet
region with the help of a the kernel linker.
Virtualized global variables exist in per-vnet memory set up when the
network stack instance is created, and are initialized statically from
the reference copy. Run-time access occurs via an accessor macro, which
converts from the current vnet and requested symbol to a per-vnet
address. When "options VIMAGE" is not compiled into the kernel, normal
global ELF symbols will be used instead and indirection is avoided.
This change restores static initialization for network stack global
variables, restores support for non-global symbols and types, eliminates
the need for many subsystem constructors, eliminates large per-subsystem
structures that caused many binary compatibility issues both for
monitoring applications (netstat) and kernel modules, removes the
per-function INIT_VNET_*() macros throughout the stack, eliminates the
need for vnet_symmap ksym(2) munging, and eliminates duplicate
definitions of virtualized globals under VIMAGE_GLOBALS.
Bump __FreeBSD_version and update UPDATING.
Portions submitted by: bz
Reviewed by: bz, zec
Discussed with: gnn, jamie, jeff, jhb, julian, sam
Suggested by: peter
Approved by: re (kensmith)
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)
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
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)