from the inet6 stack along with statistics and make sure we
properly free the rt in all cases.
While the current situation is not better performance wise it
prevents panics seen more often these days.
After more inet6 and ipsec cleanup we should be able to improve
the situation again passing the rt to ip6_forward directly.
Leave the ip6_forward_rt entry in struct vinet6 but mark it
for removal.
PR: kern/128247, kern/131038
MFC after: 25 days
Committed from: Bugathon #6
Tested by: Denis Ahrens <denis@h3q.com> (different initial version)
The new behaviour is on by default, and can be disabled by setting the
net.inet.tcp.rfc3465 sysctl to 0 to obtain previous behaviour.
The patch changes struct tcpcb in sys/netinet/tcp_var.h which breaks
the ABI. Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800061 accordingly. User space tools
that rely on the size of struct tcpcb (e.g. sockstat) need to be recompiled.
Reviewed by: rpaulo, gnn
Approved by: gnn, kmacy (mentors)
Sponsored by: FreeBSD Foundation
1. separating L2 tables (ARP, NDP) from the L3 routing tables
2. removing as much locking dependencies among these layers as
possible to allow for some parallelism in the search operations
3. simplify the logic in the routing code,
The most notable end result is the obsolescent of the route
cloning (RTF_CLONING) concept, which translated into code reduction
in both IPv4 ARP and IPv6 NDP related modules, and size reduction in
struct rtentry{}. The change in design obsoletes the semantics of
RTF_CLONING, RTF_WASCLONE and RTF_LLINFO routing flags. The userland
applications such as "arp" and "ndp" have been modified to reflect
those changes. The output from "netstat -r" shows only the routing
entries.
Quite a few developers have contributed to this project in the
past: Glebius Smirnoff, Luigi Rizzo, Alessandro Cerri, and
Andre Oppermann. And most recently:
- Kip Macy revised the locking code completely, thus completing
the last piece of the puzzle, Kip has also been conducting
active functional testing
- Sam Leffler has helped me improving/refactoring the code, and
provided valuable reviews
- Julian Elischer setup the perforce tree for me and has helped
me maintaining that branch before the svn conversion
module; the ath module now brings in the hal support. Kernel
config files are almost backwards compatible; supplying
device ath_hal
gives you the same chip support that the binary hal did but you
must also include
options AH_SUPPORT_AR5416
to enable the extended format descriptors used by 11n parts.
It is now possible to control the chip support included in a
build by specifying exactly which chips are to be supported
in the config file; consult ath_hal(4) for information.
and ifnet functions
- add memory barriers to <machine/atomic.h>
- update drivers to only conditionally define their own
- add lockless producer / consumer ring buffer
- remove ring buffer implementation from cxgb and update its callers
- add if_transmit(struct ifnet *ifp, struct mbuf *m) to ifnet to
allow drivers to efficiently manage multiple hardware queues
(i.e. not serialize all packets through one ifq)
- expose if_qflush to allow drivers to flush any driver managed queues
This work was supported by Bitgravity Inc. and Chelsio Inc.
This should fix q_time overflow, which happens after 2^32/(86400*hz) days of
uptime (~50days for hz = 1000).
q_time overflow cause following:
- traffic shaping may not work in 'fast' mode (not enabled by default).
- incorrect average queue length calculation in RED/GRED algorithm.
NB: due to ABI change this change is not applicable to stable.
PR: kern/128401
The last half year I've been working on a replacement TTY layer for the
FreeBSD kernel. The new TTY layer was designed to improve the following:
- Improved driver model:
The old TTY layer has a driver model that is not abstract enough to
make it friendly to use. A good example is the output path, where the
device drivers directly access the output buffers. This means that an
in-kernel PPP implementation must always convert network buffers into
TTY buffers.
If a PPP implementation would be built on top of the new TTY layer
(still needs a hooks layer, though), it would allow the PPP
implementation to directly hand the data to the TTY driver.
- Improved hotplugging:
With the old TTY layer, it isn't entirely safe to destroy TTY's from
the system. This implementation has a two-step destructing design,
where the driver first abandons the TTY. After all threads have left
the TTY, the TTY layer calls a routine in the driver, which can be
used to free resources (unit numbers, etc).
The pts(4) driver also implements this feature, which means
posix_openpt() will now return PTY's that are created on the fly.
- Improved performance:
One of the major improvements is the per-TTY mutex, which is expected
to improve scalability when compared to the old Giant locking.
Another change is the unbuffered copying to userspace, which is both
used on TTY device nodes and PTY masters.
Upgrading should be quite straightforward. Unlike previous versions,
existing kernel configuration files do not need to be changed, except
when they reference device drivers that are listed in UPDATING.
Obtained from: //depot/projects/mpsafetty/...
Approved by: philip (ex-mentor)
Discussed: on the lists, at BSDCan, at the DevSummit
Sponsored by: Snow B.V., the Netherlands
dcons(4) fixed by: kan
It turns out I forgot to mention that people really need to make sure
their hints are up to date if they are updating a system through the
serial console.
Requested by: gavin
Reviewed by: gavin
The uart(4) driver has the advantage of supporting a wider variety of
hardware on a greater amount of platforms. This driver has already been
the standard on platforms such as ia64, powerpc and sparc64.
I've decided not to change anything on pc98. I'd rather let people from
the pc98 team look at this.
Approved by: philip (mentor), marcel
parts relied on the now removed NET_NEEDS_GIANT.
Most of I4B has been disconnected from the build
since July 2007 in HEAD/RELENG_7.
This is what was removed:
- configuration in /etc/isdn
- examples
- man pages
- kernel configuration
- sys/i4b (drivers, layers, include files)
- user space tools
- i4b support from ppp
- further documentation
Discussed with: rwatson, re
to rc.conf(5) to remind people where to look for all the details.
People without network connectivity forget basics like this... This
is in keeping with historic UPDATING entries which try to provide
basic information in the entry, and a pointer to more extensive
information documenting the new thing.
commands can be written to /dev/psm%d and status can be read back from it.
- Reflect the change in psm(4) and bump version for ports.
MFC after: 1 week
structure. This allows per-CPU variations of struct pmap on a
single architecture without affecting the machine-independent
fields. As such, the PMAP variations don't affect the ABI. They
become part of it.
