introduce a modified allocation mechanism for mbufs and mbuf clusters; one
which can scale under SMP and which offers the possibility of resource
reclamation to be implemented in the future. Notable advantages:
o Reduce contention for SMP by offering per-CPU pools and locks.
o Better use of data cache due to per-CPU pools.
o Much less code cache pollution due to excessively large allocation macros.
o Framework for `grouping' objects from same page together so as to be able
to possibly free wired-down pages back to the system if they are no longer
needed by the network stacks.
Additional things changed with this addition:
- Moved some mbuf specific declarations and initializations from
sys/conf/param.c into mbuf-specific code where they belong.
- m_getclr() has been renamed to m_get_clrd() because the old name is really
confusing. m_getclr() HAS been preserved though and is defined to the new
name. No tree sweep has been done "to change the interface," as the old
name will continue to be supported and is not depracated. The change was
merely done because m_getclr() sounds too much like "m_get a cluster."
- TEMPORARILY disabled mbtypes statistics displaying in netstat(1) and
systat(1) (see TODO below).
- Fixed systat(1) to display number of "free mbufs" based on new per-CPU
stat structures.
- Fixed netstat(1) to display new per-CPU stats based on sysctl-exported
per-CPU stat structures. All infos are fetched via sysctl.
TODO (in order of priority):
- Re-enable mbtypes statistics in both netstat(1) and systat(1) after
introducing an SMP friendly way to collect the mbtypes stats under the
already introduced per-CPU locks (i.e. hopefully don't use atomic() - it
seems too costly for a mere stat update, especially when other locks are
already present).
- Optionally have systat(1) display not only "total free mbufs" but also
"total free mbufs per CPU pool."
- Fix minor length-fetching issues in netstat(1) related to recently
re-enabled option to read mbuf stats from a core file.
- Move reference counters at least for mbuf clusters into an unused portion
of the cluster itself, to save space and need to allocate a counter.
- Look into introducing resource freeing possibly from a kproc.
Reviewed by (in parts): jlemon, jake, silby, terry
Tested by: jlemon (Intel & Alpha), mjacob (Intel & Alpha)
Preliminary performance measurements: jlemon (and me, obviously)
URL: http://people.freebsd.org/~bmilekic/mb_alloc/
Removed the ambiguity in -s, -f, -p and -i flags handling.
Basically, there are four displays (except others):
1. PCB display.
2. Protocol statistics display. (-s)
3. Interface statistics display. (-i)
4. Per-interface protocol statistics display. (-i -s)
All of the above except 3) can be limited to a particular
protocol family (-f) or a single protocol (-p).
Some examples:
1. netstat -f inet -- show PCBs of all INET protocols
2. netstat -p udp -- show PCB of UDP protocol only (NEW!)
3. netstat -s -- show protocol statistics for all families
4. netstat -s -f inet -- show INET protocols statistics
5. netstat -s -p icmp -- show ICMP protocol statistics
This is a work in progress. Manpage has been fixed slightly,
but is still incomplete.
This work was based on kame-20010528-freebsd43-snap.tgz and some
critical problem after the snap was out were fixed.
There are many many changes since last KAME merge.
TODO:
- The definitions of SADB_* in sys/net/pfkeyv2.h are still different
from RFC2407/IANA assignment because of binary compatibility
issue. It should be fixed under 5-CURRENT.
- ip6po_m member of struct ip6_pktopts is no longer used. But, it
is still there because of binary compatibility issue. It should
be removed under 5-CURRENT.
Reviewed by: itojun
Obtained from: KAME
MFC after: 3 weeks
Always print at least 3 bytes for IN_CLASSC_NET networks.
The standard 193.0.0 class C network for example, will now
be displayed as "193.0.0" as opposed to the confusing 193.
PR: bin/21546
MFC after: 1 week
A route generated from an RTF_CLONING route had the RTF_WASCLONED flag
set but did not have a reference to the parent route, as documented in
the rtentry(9) manpage. This prevented such routes from being deleted
when their parent route is deleted.
Now, for example, if you delete an IP address from a network interface,
all ARP entries that were cloned from this interface route are flushed.
This also has an impact on netstat(1) output. Previously, dynamically
created ARP cache entries (RTF_STATIC flag is unset) were displayed as
part of the routing table display (-r). Now, they are only printed if
the -a option is given.
netinet/in.c, netinet/in_rmx.c:
When address is removed from an interface, also delete all routes that
point to this interface and address. Previously, for example, if you
changed the address on an interface, outgoing IP datagrams might still
use the old address. The only solution was to delete and re-add some
routes. (The problem is easily observed with the route(8) command.)
Note, that if the socket was already bound to the local address before
this address is removed, new datagrams generated from this socket will
still be sent from the old address.
PR: kern/20785, kern/21914
Reviewed by: wollman (the idea)
statistics on a per network address basis.
Teach the IPv4 and IPv6 input/output routines to log packets/bytes
against the network address connected to the flow.
Teach netstat to display the per-address stats for IP protocols
when 'netstat -i' is evoked, instead of displaying the per-interface
stats.
that should be better.
The old code counted references to mbuf clusters by using the offset
of the cluster from the start of memory allocated for mbufs and
clusters as an index into an array of chars, which did the reference
counting. If the external storage was not a cluster then reference
counting had to be done by the code using that external storage.
NetBSD's system of linked lists of mbufs was cosidered, but Alfred
felt it would have locking issues when the kernel was made more
SMP friendly.
The system implimented uses a pool of unions to track external
storage. The union contains an int for counting the references and
a pointer for forming a free list. The reference counts are
incremented and decremented atomically and so should be SMP friendly.
This system can track reference counts for any sort of external
storage.
Access to the reference counting stuff is now through macros defined
in mbuf.h, so it should be easier to make changes to the system in
the future.
The possibility of storing the reference count in one of the
referencing mbufs was considered, but was rejected 'cos it would
often leave extra mbufs allocated. Storing the reference count in
the cluster was also considered, but because the external storage
may not be a cluster this isn't an option.
The size of the pool of reference counters is available in the
stats provided by "netstat -m".
PR: 19866
Submitted by: Bosko Milekic <bmilekic@dsuper.net>
Reviewed by: alfred (glanced at by others on -net)
There was a missing description for a new flags to netstat.
I already added the fix to netstat man, but usage() change is
also necessary.
Specified by: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk>
Approved by: jkh
kernel IPv6 multicast routing support.
pim6 dense mode daemon
pim6 sparse mode daemon
netstat support of IPv6 multicast routing statistics
Merging to the current and testing with other existing multicast routers
is done by Tatsuya Jinmei <jinmei@kame.net>, who writes and maintainances
the base code in KAME distribution.
Make world check and kernel build check was also successful.
only when either of sflag and "-f inet6" is specified.
-fix the indentation of default output
Specified by: Stephen McKay <syssgm@detir.qld.gov.au>
Reviewed and Confirmed by: Stephen McKay <syssgm@detir.qld.gov.au>
information in 80 columns.
TODO: IPv6 related information is not likely to be kept in 80 columns, anyway.
Some more print modes could be added,
but what is the priority between those modes?
-print out all information even if they don't fit into 80 columns
-strip off some information to fit them into 80 columns
Reviewed by: markm
packet divert at kernel for IPv6/IPv4 translater daemon
This includes queue related patch submitted by jburkhol@home.com.
Submitted by: queue related patch from jburkhol@home.com
Reviewed by: freebsd-arch, cvs-committers
Obtained from: KAME project
Been in production for 3 years now. Gives Instant Frame relay to if_sr
and if_ar drivers, and PPPOE support soon. See:
ftp://ftp.whistle.com/pub/archie/netgraph/index.html
for on-line manual pages.
Reviewed by: Doug Rabson (dfr@freebsd.org)
Obtained from: Whistle CVS tree
track.
The $Id$ line is normally at the bottom of the main comment block in the
man page, separated from the rest of the manpage by an empty comment,
like so;
.\" $Id$
.\"
If the immediately preceding comment is a @(#) format ID marker than the
the $Id$ will line up underneath it with no intervening blank lines.
Otherwise, an additional blank line is inserted.
Approved by: bde
the kernel; this was left over from the earlier protocol-dependent
kernel multicast routing code.
Learn how to handle the malloc'd multicast routing table (instead of
expecting it to be in mbufs)
Didn't fix the alignment of the output fields on alpha where addresses
require 16 characters to print.
Added a dummy field to the pt_u union to help the alpha compiler align
the u_sa field in a suiable way.
