multipath control plane changed described in D24141.
Currently route.c contains core routing init/teardown functions, route table
manipulation functions and various helper functions, resulting in >2KLOC
file in total. This change moves most of the route table manipulation parts
to a dedicated file, simplifying planned multipath changes and making
route.c more manageable.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D24870
With the upcoming multipath changes described in D24141,
rt->rt_nhop can potentially point to a nexthop group instead of
an individual nhop.
To simplify caller handling of such cases, change ifa_rtrequest() callback
to pass changed nhop directly.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D24604
Generic if_output() callback signature was modified to use struct route
instead of struct rtentry in r191148, back in 2009.
Quoting commit message:
Change if_output to take a struct route as its fourth argument in order
to allow passing a cached struct llentry * down to L2
Fix bridge_output() to match this signature and update the remaining
comment in if_var.h.
Reviewed by: kp
MFC after: 2 weeks
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D24394
When I did the use_numa support, I missed the fact that there is
a separate hash function for send tag nic selection. So when
use_numa is enabled, ktls offload does not work properly, as it
does not reliably allocate a send tag on the proper egress nic
since different egress nics are selected for send-tag allocation
and packet transmit. To fix this, this change:
- refectors lacp_select_tx_port_by_hash() and
lacp_select_tx_port() to make lacp_select_tx_port_by_hash()
always called by lacp_select_tx_port()
- pre-shifts flowids to convert them to hashes when calling lacp_select_tx_port_by_hash()
- adds a numa_domain field to if_snd_tag_alloc_params
- plumbs the numa domain into places where we allocate send tags
In testing with NIC TLS setup on a NUMA machine, I see thousands
of output errors before the change when enabling
kern.ipc.tls.ifnet.permitted=1. After the change, I see no
errors, and I see the NIC sysctl counters showing active TLS
offload sessions.
Reviewed by: rrs, hselasky, jhb
Sponsored by: Netflix
like the mlx-c5 and c6 that require a "setup" routine before
the tcp_ratelimit code can declare and use a rate. I add the
setup routine to if_var as well as fix tcp_ratelimit to call it.
I also revisit the rates so that in the case of a mlx card
of type c5/6 we will use about 100 rates concentrated in the range
where the most gain can be had (1-200Mbps). Note that I have
tested these on a c5 and they work and perform well. In fact
in an unloaded system they pace right to the correct rate (great
job mlx!). There will be a further commit here from Hans that
will add the respective changes to the mlx driver to support this
work (which I was testing with).
Sponsored by: Netflix Inc.
Differential Revision: ttps://reviews.freebsd.org/D23647
subsystems tend to need to know about it, and including if_var.h is
huge header pollution for them. Polluting possible non-network
users with single symbol seems much lesser evil.
- Remove non-preemptible network epoch. Not used yet, and unlikely
to get used in close future.
and IPv6. With IPv6 we may call if_addmulti() in context of processing
of an incoming packet. Usually this is interrupt context. While most
of the NIC drivers are able to reprogram multicast filters without
sleeping, some of them can't. An example is e1000 family of drivers.
With iflib conversion the problem was somewhat hidden. Iflib processes
packets in private taskqueue, so going to sleep doesn't trigger an
assertion. However, the sleep would block operation of the driver and
following incoming packets would fill the ring and eventually would
start being dropped. Enabling epoch for the full time of a packet
processing again started to trigger assertions for e1000.
Fix this problem once and for all using a general taskqueue to call
if_ioctl() method in all cases when if_addmulti() is called in a
non sleeping context. Note that nobody cares about returned value.
Reviewed by: hselasky, kib
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D22154
Debugnet is a simplistic and specialized panic- or debug-time reliable
datagram transport. It can drive a single connection at a time and is
currently unidirectional (debug/panic machine transmit to remote server
only).
It is mostly a verbatim code lift from netdump(4). Netdump(4) remains
the only consumer (until the rest of this patch series lands).
The INET-specific logic has been extracted somewhat more thoroughly than
previously in netdump(4), into debugnet_inet.c. UDP-layer logic and up, as
much as possible as is protocol-independent, remains in debugnet.c. The
separation is not perfect and future improvement is welcome. Supporting
INET6 is a long-term goal.
Much of the diff is "gratuitous" renaming from 'netdump_' or 'nd_' to
'debugnet_' or 'dn_' -- sorry. I thought keeping the netdump name on the
generic module would be more confusing than the refactoring.
The only functional change here is the mbuf allocation / tracking. Instead
of initiating solely on netdump-configured interface(s) at dumpon(8)
configuration time, we watch for any debugnet-enabled NIC for link
activation and query it for mbuf parameters at that time. If they exceed
the existing high-water mark allocation, we re-allocate and track the new
high-water mark. Otherwise, we leave the pre-panic mbuf allocation alone.
In a future patch in this series, this will allow initiating netdump from
panic ddb(4) without pre-panic configuration.
No other functional change intended.
Reviewed by: markj (earlier version)
Some discussion with: emaste, jhb
Objection from: marius
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D21421
same after the network stack was epochified. Merge the two into one function
and cleanup all uses of ifnet_byindex_locked().
While at it:
- Add branch prediction macros.
- Make sure the ifnet pointer is only deferred once,
also when code optimisation is disabled.
Sponsored by: Mellanox Technologies
on interface. Such function could been implemented on top of
the if_foreach_llm?addr(), but several drivers need counting,
so avoid copy-n-paste inside the drivers.
addresses. The KPI doesn't reveal neither how addresses are stored,
how the access to them is synchronized, neither reveal struct ifaddr
and struct ifmaddr.
Reviewed by: gallatin, erj, hselasky, philip, stevek
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D21943
KTLS adds support for in-kernel framing and encryption of Transport
Layer Security (1.0-1.2) data on TCP sockets. KTLS only supports
offload of TLS for transmitted data. Key negotation must still be
performed in userland. Once completed, transmit session keys for a
connection are provided to the kernel via a new TCP_TXTLS_ENABLE
socket option. All subsequent data transmitted on the socket is
placed into TLS frames and encrypted using the supplied keys.
Any data written to a KTLS-enabled socket via write(2), aio_write(2),
or sendfile(2) is assumed to be application data and is encoded in TLS
frames with an application data type. Individual records can be sent
with a custom type (e.g. handshake messages) via sendmsg(2) with a new
control message (TLS_SET_RECORD_TYPE) specifying the record type.
At present, rekeying is not supported though the in-kernel framework
should support rekeying.
KTLS makes use of the recently added unmapped mbufs to store TLS
frames in the socket buffer. Each TLS frame is described by a single
ext_pgs mbuf. The ext_pgs structure contains the header of the TLS
record (and trailer for encrypted records) as well as references to
the associated TLS session.
KTLS supports two primary methods of encrypting TLS frames: software
TLS and ifnet TLS.
Software TLS marks mbufs holding socket data as not ready via
M_NOTREADY similar to sendfile(2) when TLS framing information is
added to an unmapped mbuf in ktls_frame(). ktls_enqueue() is then
called to schedule TLS frames for encryption. In the case of
sendfile_iodone() calls ktls_enqueue() instead of pru_ready() leaving
the mbufs marked M_NOTREADY until encryption is completed. For other
writes (vn_sendfile when pages are available, write(2), etc.), the
PRUS_NOTREADY is set when invoking pru_send() along with invoking
ktls_enqueue().
A pool of worker threads (the "KTLS" kernel process) encrypts TLS
frames queued via ktls_enqueue(). Each TLS frame is temporarily
mapped using the direct map and passed to a software encryption
backend to perform the actual encryption.
(Note: The use of PHYS_TO_DMAP could be replaced with sf_bufs if
someone wished to make this work on architectures without a direct
map.)
KTLS supports pluggable software encryption backends. Internally,
Netflix uses proprietary pure-software backends. This commit includes
a simple backend in a new ktls_ocf.ko module that uses the kernel's
OpenCrypto framework to provide AES-GCM encryption of TLS frames. As
a result, software TLS is now a bit of a misnomer as it can make use
of hardware crypto accelerators.
Once software encryption has finished, the TLS frame mbufs are marked
ready via pru_ready(). At this point, the encrypted data appears as
regular payload to the TCP stack stored in unmapped mbufs.
ifnet TLS permits a NIC to offload the TLS encryption and TCP
segmentation. In this mode, a new send tag type (IF_SND_TAG_TYPE_TLS)
is allocated on the interface a socket is routed over and associated
with a TLS session. TLS records for a TLS session using ifnet TLS are
not marked M_NOTREADY but are passed down the stack unencrypted. The
ip_output_send() and ip6_output_send() helper functions that apply
send tags to outbound IP packets verify that the send tag of the TLS
record matches the outbound interface. If so, the packet is tagged
with the TLS send tag and sent to the interface. The NIC device
driver must recognize packets with the TLS send tag and schedule them
for TLS encryption and TCP segmentation. If the the outbound
interface does not match the interface in the TLS send tag, the packet
is dropped. In addition, a task is scheduled to refresh the TLS send
tag for the TLS session. If a new TLS send tag cannot be allocated,
the connection is dropped. If a new TLS send tag is allocated,
however, subsequent packets will be tagged with the correct TLS send
tag. (This latter case has been tested by configuring both ports of a
Chelsio T6 in a lagg and failing over from one port to another. As
the connections migrated to the new port, new TLS send tags were
allocated for the new port and connections resumed without being
dropped.)
ifnet TLS can be enabled and disabled on supported network interfaces
via new '[-]txtls[46]' options to ifconfig(8). ifnet TLS is supported
across both vlan devices and lagg interfaces using failover, lacp with
flowid enabled, or lacp with flowid enabled.
Applications may request the current KTLS mode of a connection via a
new TCP_TXTLS_MODE socket option. They can also use this socket
option to toggle between software and ifnet TLS modes.
In addition, a testing tool is available in tools/tools/switch_tls.
This is modeled on tcpdrop and uses similar syntax. However, instead
of dropping connections, -s is used to force KTLS connections to
switch to software TLS and -i is used to switch to ifnet TLS.
Various sysctls and counters are available under the kern.ipc.tls
sysctl node. The kern.ipc.tls.enable node must be set to true to
enable KTLS (it is off by default). The use of unmapped mbufs must
also be enabled via kern.ipc.mb_use_ext_pgs to enable KTLS.
KTLS is enabled via the KERN_TLS kernel option.
This patch is the culmination of years of work by several folks
including Scott Long and Randall Stewart for the original design and
implementation; Drew Gallatin for several optimizations including the
use of ext_pgs mbufs, the M_NOTREADY mechanism for TLS records
awaiting software encryption, and pluggable software crypto backends;
and John Baldwin for modifications to support hardware TLS offload.
Reviewed by: gallatin, hselasky, rrs
Obtained from: Netflix
Sponsored by: Netflix, Chelsio Communications
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D21277
an updated rack depend on having access to the new
ratelimit api in this commit.
Sponsored by: Netflix Inc.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D20953
This allows replacing "sys/eventfilter.h" includes with "sys/_eventfilter.h"
in other header files (e.g., sys/{bus,conf,cpu}.h) and reduces header
pollution substantially.
EVENTHANDLER_DECLARE and EVENTHANDLER_LIST_DECLAREs were moved out of .c
files into appropriate headers (e.g., sys/proc.h, powernv/opal.h).
As a side effect of reduced header pollution, many .c files and headers no
longer contain needed definitions. The remainder of the patch addresses
adding appropriate includes to fix those files.
LOCK_DEBUG and LOCK_FILE_LINE_ARG are moved to sys/_lock.h, as required by
sys/mutex.h since r326106 (but silently protected by header pollution prior
to this change).
No functional change (intended). Of course, any out of tree modules that
relied on header pollution for sys/eventhandler.h, sys/lock.h, or
sys/mutex.h inclusion need to be fixed. __FreeBSD_version has been bumped.
This commit adds new if_alloc_domain() and if_alloc_dev() methods to
allocate ifnets. When called with a domain on a NUMA machine,
ifalloc_domain() will record the NUMA domain in the ifnet, and it will
allocate the ifnet struct from memory which is local to that NUMA
node. Similarly, if_alloc_dev() is a wrapper for if_alloc_domain
which uses a driver supplied device_t to call ifalloc_domain() with
the appropriate domain.
Note that the new if_numa_domain field fits in an alignment pad in
struct ifnet, and so does not alter the size of the structure.
Reviewed by: glebius, kib, markj
Sponsored by: Netflix
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D19930
The KPI have been reviewed and cleansed of features that were planned
back 20 years ago and never implemented. The pfil(9) internals have
been made opaque to protocols with only returned types and function
declarations exposed. The KPI is made more strict, but at the same time
more extensible, as kernel uses same command structures that userland
ioctl uses.
In nutshell [KA]PI is about declaring filtering points, declaring
filters and linking and unlinking them together.
New [KA]PI makes it possible to reconfigure pfil(9) configuration:
change order of hooks, rehook filter from one filtering point to a
different one, disconnect a hook on output leaving it on input only,
prepend/append a filter to existing list of filters.
Now it possible for a single packet filter to provide multiple rulesets
that may be linked to different points. Think of per-interface ACLs in
Cisco or Juniper. None of existing packet filters yet support that,
however limited usage is already possible, e.g. default ruleset can
be moved to single interface, as soon as interface would pride their
filtering points.
Another future feature is possiblity to create pfil heads, that provide
not an mbuf pointer but just a memory pointer with length. That would
allow filtering at very early stages of a packet lifecycle, e.g. when
packet has just been received by a NIC and no mbuf was yet allocated.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D18951
- Remove macros that covertly create epoch_tracker on thread stack. Such
macros a quite unsafe, e.g. will produce a buggy code if same macro is
used in embedded scopes. Explicitly declare epoch_tracker always.
- Unmask interface list IFNET_RLOCK_NOSLEEP(), interface address list
IF_ADDR_RLOCK() and interface AF specific data IF_AFDATA_RLOCK() read
locking macros to what they actually are - the net_epoch.
Keeping them as is is very misleading. They all are named FOO_RLOCK(),
while they no longer have lock semantics. Now they allow recursion and
what's more important they now no longer guarantee protection against
their companion WLOCK macros.
Note: INP_HASH_RLOCK() has same problems, but not touched by this commit.
This is non functional mechanical change. The only functionally changed
functions are ni6_addrs() and ni6_store_addrs(), where we no longer enter
epoch recursively.
Discussed with: jtl, gallatin
mutexes but now are converted to epoch(9) use thread-private epoch_tracker.
Embedding tracker into ifnet(9) or ifnet derived structures creates a non
reentrable function, that will fail miserably if called simultaneously from
two different contexts.
A thread private tracker will provide a single tracker that would allow to
call these functions safely. It doesn't allow nested call, but this is not
expected from compatibility KPIs.
Reviewed by: markj
handler receives the type of event IFADDR_EVENT_ADD/IFADDR_EVENT_DEL,
and the pointer to ifaddr. Also ifaddr_event now is implemented using
ifaddr_event_ext handler.
MFC after: 3 weeks
Sponsored by: Yandex LLC
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D17100
is done via using ifconfig, which uses a SIOCSIFMTU ioctl() command, or
doing it using a TUNSIFINFO/TAPSIFINFO ioctl() command.
Without this patch, for IPv6 the new MTU is not used when creating routes.
Especially, when initiating TCP connections after increasing the MTU,
the old MTU is still used to compute the MSS.
Thanks to ae@ and bz@ for helping to improve the patch.
Reviewed by: ae@, bz@
Approved by: re (kib@)
MFC after: 1 week
Sponsored by: Netflix, Inc.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D17180
This is actually several different bugs:
- The code is not designed to handle inpcb deletion after interface deletion
- add reference for inpcb membership
- The multicast address has to be removed from interface lists when the refcount
goes to zero OR when the interface goes away
- decouple list disconnect from refcount (v6 only for now)
- ifmultiaddr can exist past being on interface lists
- add flag for tracking whether or not it's enqueued
- deferring freeing moptions makes the incpb cleanup code simpler but opens the
door wider still to races
- call inp_gcmoptions synchronously after dropping the the inpcb lock
Fundamentally multicast needs a rewrite - but keep applying band-aids for now.
Tested by: kp
Reported by: novel, kp, lwhsu
Add generic function if_tunnel_check_nesting() that does check for
allowed nesting level for tunneling interfaces and also does loop
detection. Use it in gif(4), gre(4) and me(4) interfaces.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D16162
- Add tracker argument to preemptible epochs
- Inline epoch read path in kernel and tied modules
- Change in_epoch to take an epoch as argument
- Simplify tfb_tcp_do_segment to not take a ti_locked argument,
there's no longer any benefit to dropping the pcbinfo lock
and trying to do so just adds an error prone branchfest to
these functions
- Remove cases of same function recursion on the epoch as
recursing is no longer free.
- Remove the the TAILQ_ENTRY and epoch_section from struct
thread as the tracker field is now stack or heap allocated
as appropriate.
Tested by: pho and Limelight Networks
Reviewed by: kbowling at llnw dot com
Sponsored by: Limelight Networks
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D16066
There are risks associated with waiting on a preemptible epoch section.
Change the name to make them not be the default and document the issue
under CAVEATS.
Reported by: markj
if_bridge has a lot of limitations that make it scale poorly to higher data
rates. In my projects/VPC branch I leverage the bridge interface between
layers for my high speed soft switch as well as for purposes of stacking
in general.
Reviewed by: sbruno@
Approved by: sbruno@
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D15344
to sleep on commands to the NIC when updating multicast filters. More generally this permitted
driver's to use an sx as a softc lock. Unfortunately this change introduced a race whereby a
a multicast update would still be queued for deletion when ifconfig deleted the interface
thus calling down in to _purgemaddrs and synchronously deleting _all_ of the multicast addresses
on the interface.
Synchronously remove all external references to a multicast address before enqueueing for delete.
Reported by: lwhsu
Approved by: sbruno
This is a component of a system which lets the kernel dump core to
a remote host after a panic, rather than to a local storage device.
The server component is available in the ports tree. netdump is
particularly useful on diskless systems.
The netdump(4) man page contains some details describing the protocol.
Support for configuring netdump will be added to dumpon(8) in a future
commit. To use netdump, the kernel must have been compiled with the
NETDUMP option.
The initial revision of netdump was written by Darrell Anderson and
was integrated into Sandvine's OS, from which this version was derived.
Reviewed by: bdrewery, cem (earlier versions), julian, sbruno
MFC after: 1 month
X-MFC note: use a spare field in struct ifnet
Sponsored by: Dell EMC Isilon
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D15253
When the PCP is changed for either a VLAN network interface or when
prio tagging is enabled for a regular ethernet network interface,
broadcast the IFNET_EVENT_PCP event so applications like ibcore can
update its GID tables accordingly.
MFC after: 3 days
Reviewed by: ae, kib
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D15040
Sponsored by: Mellanox Technologies
This fixes 32-bit compat (no ioctl command defintions are required
as struct ifreq is the same size). This is believed to be sufficent to
fully support ifconfig on 32-bit systems.
Reviewed by: kib
Obtained from: CheriBSD
MFC after: 1 week
Relnotes: yes
Sponsored by: DARPA, AFRL
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D14900
According to 802.1Q-2014, VLAN tagged packets with VLAN id 0 should be
considered as untagged, and only PCP and DEI values from the VLAN tag
are meaningful. See for instance
https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/switches/connectedgrid/cg-switch-sw-master/software/configuration/guide/vlan0/b_vlan_0.html.
Make it possible to specify PCP value for outgoing packets on an
ethernet interface. When PCP is supplied, the tag is appended, VLAN
id set to 0, and PCP is filled by the supplied value. The code to do
VLAN tag encapsulation is refactored from the if_vlan.c and moved into
if_ethersubr.c.
Drivers might have issues with filtering VID 0 packets on
receive. This bug should be fixed for each driver.
Reviewed by: ae (previous version), hselasky, melifaro
Sponsored by: Mellanox Technologies
MFC after: 2 weeks
Differential revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D14702
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.
transmit queues aswell as non-ratelimited ones.
Add the required structure bits in order to support a backpressure
indication with ratelimited connections aswell as non-ratelimited
ones. The backpressure indicator is a value between zero and 65535
inclusivly, indicating if the destination transmit queue is empty or
full respectivly. Applications can use this value as a decision point
for when to stop transmitting data to avoid endless ENOBUFS error
codes upon transmitting an mbuf. This indicator is also useful to
reduce the latency for ratelimited queues.
Reviewed by: gallatin, kib, gnn
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D11518
Sponsored by: Mellanox Technologies
The MAC address reported by `ifconfig ${nic} ether' does not always match
the address in the hardware, as reported by the driver during attach. In
particular, NICs which are components of a lagg(4) interface all report the
same MAC.
When attaching, the NIC driver passes the MAC address it read from the
hardware as an argument to ether_ifattach(). Keep a second copy of it, and
create ioctl(SIOCGHWADDR) to return it. Teach `ifconfig' to report it along
with the active MAC address.
PR: 194386
Reviewed by: glebius
MFC after: 1 week
Sponsored by: Panasas
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D10609
Renumber cluase 4 to 3, per what everybody else did when BSD granted
them permission to remove clause 3. My insistance on keeping the same
numbering for legal reasons is too pedantic, so give up on that point.
Submitted by: Jan Schaumann <jschauma@stevens.edu>
Pull Request: https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/pull/96
structure:
if_gethwtsomax(), if_sethwtsomax() - if_hw_tsomax
if_gethwtsomaxsegcount(), if_sethwtsomaxsegcount() - if_hw_tsomaxsegcount
if_gethwtsomaxsegsize(), if_sethwtsomaxsegsize() - if_hw_tsomaxsegsize
Update em and vnic drivers which had already been coverted to use accessor
functions for the other ifnet structure members.
Reviewed by: erj
Approved by: sjg (mentor)
Obtained from: Juniper Networks, Inc.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D8544
Thank glebius for pointing this out:
"The network stuff shall not be added to sys/eventhandler.h"
Reviewed by: David_A_Bright_DELL.com, sephe, glebius
Approved by: sephe (mentor)
MFC after: 2 weeks
Sponsored by: Microsoft
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D9345
- Add RATELIMIT kernel configuration keyword which must be set to
enable the new functionality.
- Add support for hardware driven, Receive Side Scaling, RSS aware, rate
limited sendqueues and expose the functionality through the already
established SO_MAX_PACING_RATE setsockopt(). The API support rates in
the range from 1 to 4Gbytes/s which are suitable for regular TCP and
UDP streams. The setsockopt(2) manual page has been updated.
- Add rate limit function callback API to "struct ifnet" which supports
the following operations: if_snd_tag_alloc(), if_snd_tag_modify(),
if_snd_tag_query() and if_snd_tag_free().
- Add support to ifconfig to view, set and clear the IFCAP_TXRTLMT
flag, which tells if a network driver supports rate limiting or not.
- This patch also adds support for rate limiting through VLAN and LAGG
intermediate network devices.
- How rate limiting works:
1) The userspace application calls setsockopt() after accepting or
making a new connection to set the rate which is then stored in the
socket structure in the kernel. Later on when packets are transmitted
a check is made in the transmit path for rate changes. A rate change
implies a non-blocking ifp->if_snd_tag_alloc() call will be made to the
destination network interface, which then sets up a custom sendqueue
with the given rate limitation parameter. A "struct m_snd_tag" pointer is
returned which serves as a "snd_tag" hint in the m_pkthdr for the
subsequently transmitted mbufs.
2) When the network driver sees the "m->m_pkthdr.snd_tag" different
from NULL, it will move the packets into a designated rate limited sendqueue
given by the snd_tag pointer. It is up to the individual drivers how the rate
limited traffic will be rate limited.
3) Route changes are detected by the NIC drivers in the ifp->if_transmit()
routine when the ifnet pointer in the incoming snd_tag mismatches the
one of the network interface. The network adapter frees the mbuf and
returns EAGAIN which causes the ip_output() to release and clear the send
tag. Upon next ip_output() a new "snd_tag" will be tried allocated.
4) When the PCB is detached the custom sendqueue will be released by a
non-blocking ifp->if_snd_tag_free() call to the currently bound network
interface.
Reviewed by: wblock (manpages), adrian, gallatin, scottl (network)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D3687
Sponsored by: Mellanox Technologies
MFC after: 3 months
Since if_addrlist is used only for ipfilter(4), add a macro if_addrlist
in ip_compat.h.
Reviewed by: cy
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D8059
While here, prefer if_addrhead (FreeBSD) to if_addrlist (BSD compat) naming
for the interface address list in sctp_bsd_addr.c
Reviewed by: tuexen
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D8051
