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.
Move actual rte selection process from rtalloc_mpath_fib()
to the rt_path_selectrte() function. Add public
rt_mpath_select() to use in fibX_lookup_ functions.
Vast majority of rtalloc(9) users require only basic info from
route table (e.g. "does the rtentry interface match with the interface
I have?". "what is the MTU?", "Give me the IPv4 source address to use",
etc..).
Instead of hand-rolling lookups, checking if rtentry is up, valid,
dealing with IPv6 mtu, finding "address" ifp (almost never done right),
provide easy-to-use API hiding all the complexity and returning the
needed info into small on-stack structure.
This change also helps hiding route subsystem internals (locking, direct
rtentry accesses).
Additionaly, using this API improves lookup performance since rtentry is not
locked.
(This is safe, since all the rtentry changes happens under both radix WLOCK
and rtentry WLOCK).
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