4.1.4. Experimental Protocol
A system should not implement an experimental protocol unless it
is participating in the experiment and has coordinated its use of
the protocol with the developer of the protocol.
Pointed out by: Steinar Haug <sthaug@nethelp.no>
Define a parameter which indicates the maximum number of sockets in a
system, and use this to size the zone allocators used for sockets and
for certain PCBs.
Convert PF_LOCAL PCB structures to be type-stable and add a version number.
Define an external format for infomation about socket structures and use
it in several places.
Define a mechanism to get all PF_LOCAL and PF_INET PCB lists through
sysctl(3) without blocking network interrupts for an unreasonable
length of time. This probably still has some bugs and/or race
conditions, but it seems to work well enough on my machines.
It is now possible for `netstat' to get almost all of its information
via the sysctl(3) interface rather than reading kmem (changes to follow).
its own zone; this is used particularly by TCP which allocates both inpcb and
tcpcb in a single allocation. (Some hackery ensures that the tcpcb is
reasonably aligned.) Also keep track of the number of pcbs of each type
allocated, and keep a generation count (instance version number) for future
use.
a hashed port list. In the new scheme, in_pcblookup() goes away and is
replaced by a new routine, in_pcblookup_local() for doing the local port
check. Note that this implementation is space inefficient in that the PCB
struct is now too large to fit into 128 bytes. I might deal with this in the
future by using the new zone allocator, but I wanted these changes to be
extensively tested in their current form first.
Also:
1) Fixed off-by-one errors in the port lookup loops in in_pcbbind().
2) Got rid of some unneeded rehashing. Adding a new routine, in_pcbinshash()
to do the initialial hash insertion.
3) Renamed in_pcblookuphash() to in_pcblookup_hash() for easier readability.
4) Added a new routine, in_pcbremlists() to remove the PCB from the various
hash lists.
5) Added/deleted comments where appropriate.
6) Removed unnecessary splnet() locking. In general, the PCB functions should
be called at splnet()...there are unfortunately a few exceptions, however.
7) Reorganized a few structs for better cache line behavior.
8) Killed my TCP_ACK_HACK kludge. It may come back in a different form in
the future, however.
These changes have been tested on wcarchive for more than a month. In tests
done here, connection establishment overhead is reduced by more than 50
times, thus getting rid of one of the major networking scalability problems.
Still to do: make tcp_fastimo/tcp_slowtimo scale well for systems with a
large number of connections. tcp_fastimo is easy; tcp_slowtimo is difficult.
WARNING: Anything that knows about inpcb and tcpcb structs will have to be
recompiled; at the very least, this includes netstat(1).
where if you are using the "reset tcp" firewall command,
the kernel would write ethernet headers onto random kernel stack locations.
Fought to the death by: terry, julian, archie.
fix valid for 2.2 series as well.
cache lines. Removed the struct ip proto since only a couple of chars
were actually being used in it. Changed the order of compares in the
PCB hash lookup to take advantage of partial cache line fills (on PPro).
Discussed-with: wollman
the quality of the hash distribution. This does not fix a problem dealing
with poor distribution when using lots of IP aliases and listening
on the same port on every one of them...some other day perhaps; fixing
that requires significant code changes.
The use of xor was inspired by David S. Miller <davem@jenolan.rutgers.edu>
in the route. This allows us to remove the unconditional setting of the
pipesize in the route, which should mean that SO_SNDBUF and SO_RCVBUF
should actually work again. While we're at it:
- Convert udp_usrreq from `mondo switch statement from Hell' to new-style.
- Delete old TCP mondo switch statement from Hell, which had previously
been diked out.
This will make a number of things easier in the future, as well as (finally!)
avoiding the Id-smashing problem which has plagued developers for so long.
Boy, I'm glad we're not using sup anymore. This update would have been
insane otherwise.
*' instead of caddr_t and it isn't optional (it never was). Most of the
netipx (and netns) pr_ctlinput functions abuse the second arg instead of
using the third arg but fixing this is beyond the scope of this round
of changes.
a few new wrinkles for MTU discovery which tcp_output() had better
be prepared to handle. ip_output() is also modified to do something
helpful in this case, since it has already calculated the information
we need.
turned out not to be necessary; simply watching for MTU decreases (which
we already did) automagically eliminates all the cases we were trying to
protect against.
middle of a fully-open window. Also, keep track of how many retransmits
we do as a result of MTU discovery. This may actually do more work than
necessary, but it's an unusual condition...
Suggested by: Janey Hoe <janey@lcs.mit.edu>
and gated on `options MTUDISC' in the source. It is also practically
untested becausse (sniff!) I don't have easy access to a network with
an MTU of less than an Ethernet. If you have a small MTU network,
please try it and tell me if it works!
know better when to cache values in the route, rather than relying on a
heuristic involving sequence numbers that broke when tcp_sendspace
was increased to 16k.
its connection parameters, we want to keep statistics on how often this
actually happens to see whether there is any work that needs to be done in
TCP itself.
Suggested by: John Wroclawski <jtw@lcs.mit.edu>
Bob Braden <braden@isi.edu>.
NB: This has not had David's TCP ACK hack re-integrated. It is not clear
what the correct solution to this problem is, if any. If a better solution
doesn't pop up in response to this message, I'll put David's code back in
(or he's welcome to do so himself).
