When epoch(9) was introduced to network stack, it was basically
dropped in place of existing locking, which was mutexes and
rwlocks. For the sake of performance mutex covered areas were
as small as possible, so became epoch covered areas.
However, epoch doesn't introduce any contention, it just delays
memory reclaim. So, there is no point to minimise epoch covered
areas in sense of performance. Meanwhile entering/exiting epoch
also has non-zero CPU usage, so doing this less often is a win.
Not the least is also code maintainability. In the new paradigm
we can assume that at any stage of processing a packet, we are
inside network epoch. This makes coding both input and output
path way easier.
On output path we already enter epoch quite early - in the
ip_output(), in the ip6_output().
This patch does the same for the input path. All ISR processing,
network related callouts, other ways of packet injection to the
network stack shall be performed in net_epoch. Any leaf function
that walks network configuration now asserts epoch.
Tricky part is configuration code paths - ioctls, sysctls. They
also call into leaf functions, so some need to be changed.
This patch would introduce more epoch recursions (see EPOCH_TRACE)
than we had before. They will be cleaned up separately, as several
of them aren't trivial. Note, that unlike a lock recursion the
epoch recursion is safe and just wastes a bit of resources.
Reviewed by: gallatin, hselasky, cy, adrian, kristof
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D19111
stf(4) interfaces are not multicast-capable so they can't perform DAD.
They also did not set IFF_DRV_RUNNING when an address was assigned, so
the logic in nd6_timer() would periodically flag such an address as
tentative, resulting in interface flapping.
Fix the problem by setting IFF_DRV_RUNNING when an address is assigned,
and do some related cleanup:
- In in6if_do_dad(), remove a redundant check for !UP || !RUNNING.
There is only one caller in the tree, and it only looks at whether
the return value is non-zero.
- Have in6if_do_dad() return false if the interface is not
multicast-capable.
- Set ND6_IFF_NO_DAD when an address is assigned to an stf(4) interface
and the interface goes UP as a result. Note that this is not
sufficient to fix the problem because the new address is marked as
tentative and DAD is started before in6_ifattach() is called.
However, setting no_dad is formally correct.
- Change nd6_timer() to not flag addresses as tentative if no_dad is
set.
This is based on a patch from Viktor Dukhovni.
Reported by: Viktor Dukhovni <ietf-dane@dukhovni.org>
Reviewed by: ae
MFC after: 3 weeks
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D19751
Currently it has several disadvantages:
- it uses single mutex to protect internal structures. It is used by
data- and control- path, thus there are no parallelism at all.
- it uses single list to keep encap handlers for both INET and INET6
families.
- struct encaptab keeps unneeded information (src, dst, masks, protosw),
that isn't used by code in the source tree.
- matches are prioritized and when many tunneling interfaces are
registered, encapcheck handler of each interface is invoked for each
packet. The search takes O(n) for n interfaces. All this work is done
with exclusive lock held.
What this patch includes:
- the datapath is converted to be lockless using epoch(9) KPI.
- struct encaptab now linked using CK_LIST.
- all unused fields removed from struct encaptab. Several new fields
addedr: min_length is the minimum packet length, that encapsulation
handler expects to see; exact_match is maximum number of bits, that
can return an encapsulation handler, when it wants to consume a packet.
- IPv6 and IPv4 handlers are stored in separate lists;
- added new "encap_lookup_t" method, that will be used later. It is
targeted to speedup lookup of needed interface, when gif(4)/gre(4) have
many interfaces.
- the need to use protosw structure is eliminated. The only pr_input
method was used from this structure, so I don't see the need to keep
using it.
- encap_input_t method changed to avoid using mbuf tags to store softc
pointer. Now it is passed directly trough encap_input_t method.
encap_getarg() funtions is removed.
- all sockaddr structures and code that uses them removed. We don't have
any code in the tree that uses them. All consumers use encap_attach_func()
method, that relies on invoking of encapcheck() to determine the needed
handler.
- introduced struct encap_config, it contains parameters of encap handler
that is going to be registered by encap_attach() function.
- encap handlers are stored in lists ordered by exact_match value, thus
handlers that need more bits to match will be checked first, and if
encapcheck method returns exact_match value, the search will be stopped.
- all current consumers changed to use new KPI.
Reviewed by: mmacy
Sponsored by: Yandex LLC
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D15617
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.
convention for interfaces, because only one stf(4) interface can exist
in the system.
This disallow the use of unit numbers different than 0, however, it is
possible to create the clone without specify the unit number (wildcard).
In the wildcard case we must update the interface name before return.
This fix an infinite recursion in pf code that keeps track of network
interfaces and groups:
1 - a group for the cloned type of the interface is added (stf in this
case);
2 - the system will now try to add an interface named stf (instead of
stf0) to stf group;
3 - when pfi_kif_attach() tries to search for an already existing 'stf'
interface, the 'stf' group is returned and thus the group is added
as an interface of itself;
This will now cause a crash at the first attempt to traverse the groups
which the stf interface belongs (which loops over itself).
Obtained from: pfSense
MFC after: 2 weeks
Sponsored by: Rubicon Communications, LLC (Netgate)
Both are used to protect access to IP addresses lists and they can be
acquired for reading several times per packet. To reduce lock contention
it is better to use rmlock here.
Reviewed by: gnn (previous version)
Obtained from: Yandex LLC
Sponsored by: Yandex LLC
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D3149
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
These changes prevent sysctl(8) from returning proper output,
such as:
1) no output from sysctl(8)
2) erroneously returning ENOMEM with tools like truss(1)
or uname(1)
truss: can not get etype: Cannot allocate memory
there is an environment variable which shall initialize the SYSCTL
during early boot. This works for all SYSCTL types both statically and
dynamically created ones, except for the SYSCTL NODE type and SYSCTLs
which belong to VNETs. A new flag, CTLFLAG_NOFETCH, has been added to
be used in the case a tunable sysctl has a custom initialisation
function allowing the sysctl to still be marked as a tunable. The
kernel SYSCTL API is mostly the same, with a few exceptions for some
special operations like iterating childrens of a static/extern SYSCTL
node. This operation should probably be made into a factored out
common macro, hence some device drivers use this. The reason for
changing the SYSCTL API was the need for a SYSCTL parent OID pointer
and not only the SYSCTL parent OID list pointer in order to quickly
generate the sysctl path. The motivation behind this patch is to avoid
parameter loading cludges inside the OFED driver subsystem. Instead of
adding special code to the OFED driver subsystem to post-load tunables
into dynamically created sysctls, we generalize this in the kernel.
Other changes:
- Corrected a possibly incorrect sysctl name from "hw.cbb.intr_mask"
to "hw.pcic.intr_mask".
- Removed redundant TUNABLE statements throughout the kernel.
- Some minor code rewrites in connection to removing not needed
TUNABLE statements.
- Added a missing SYSCTL_DECL().
- Wrapped two very long lines.
- Avoid malloc()/free() inside sysctl string handling, in case it is
called to initialize a sysctl from a tunable, hence malloc()/free() is
not ready when sysctls from the sysctl dataset are registered.
- Bumped FreeBSD version to indicate SYSCTL API change.
MFC after: 2 weeks
Sponsored by: Mellanox Technologies
- 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.
in network byte order. Any host byte order processing is
done in local variables and host byte order values are
never[1] written to a packet.
After this change a packet processed by the stack isn't
modified at all[2] except for TTL.
After this change a network stack hacker doesn't need to
scratch his head trying to figure out what is the byte order
at the given place in the stack.
[1] One exception still remains. The raw sockets convert host
byte order before pass a packet to an application. Probably
this would remain for ages for compatibility.
[2] The ip_input() still subtructs header len from ip->ip_len,
but this is planned to be fixed soon.
Reviewed by: luigi, Maxim Dounin <mdounin mdounin.ru>
Tested by: ray, Olivier Cochard-Labbe <olivier cochard.me>
now use function calls:
if_clone_simple()
if_clone_advanced()
to initialize a cloner, instead of macros that initialize if_clone
structure.
Discussed with: brooks, bz, 1 year ago
This behavior is recommended by RFC 4213 clause 3.2.
Sometimes fragmentation is the least evil.
For example, some Linux IPVS kernels forwards
ICMPv6 checksums to real servers incorrectly.
Reviewed by: hrs(previous version)
Approved by: kib(mentor)
MFC after: 1 week
The SYSCTL_NODE macro defines a list that stores all child-elements of
that node. If there's no SYSCTL_DECL macro anywhere else, there's no
reason why it shouldn't be static.
setting (either default or if supported as set by SIOCSIFFIB, e.g.
from ifconfig).
Submitted by: Alexander V. Chernikov (melifaro ipfw.ru)
Reviewed by: julian
MFC after: 2 weeks
queue length. The default value for this parameter is 50, which is
quite low for many of today's uses and the only way to modify this
parameter right now is to edit if_var.h file. Also add read-only
sysctl with the same name, so that it's possible to retrieve the
current value.
MFC after: 1 month
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)
in_ifaddrhead and INADDR_HASH address lists.
Previously, these lists were used unsynchronized as they were effectively
never changed in steady state, but we've seen increasing reports of
writer-writer races on very busy VPN servers as core count has gone up
(and similar configurations where address lists change frequently and
concurrently).
For the time being, use rwlocks rather than rmlocks in order to take
advantage of their better lock debugging support. As a result, we don't
enable ip_input()'s read-locking of INADDR_HASH until an rmlock conversion
is complete and a performance analysis has been done. This means that one
class of reader-writer races still exists.
MFC after: 6 weeks
Reviewed by: bz
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
directly include only the header files needed. This reduces the
unneeded spamming of various headers into lots of files.
For now, this leaves us with very few modules including vnet.h
and thus needing to depend on opt_route.h.
Reviewed by: brooks, gnn, des, zec, imp
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
