Give devices that need a MAC a 16-bit allocation out of the FreeBSD
Foundation OUI range. Change the name ether_fakeaddr to ether_gen_addr now
that we're dealing real MAC addresses with a real OUI rather than random
locally-administered addresses.
Reviewed by: bz, rgrimes
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D19587
This has the advantage of being obvious to sniff out the designated prefix
by eye and it has all the right bits set. Comment stolen from ffec.
I've removed bryanv@'s pending question of using the FreeBSD OUI range --
no one has followed up on this with a definitive action, and there's no
particular reason to shoot for it and the administrative overhead that comes
with deciding exactly how to use it.
We currently have two places with identical fake hwaddr generation --
if_vxlan and if_bridge. Lift it into if_ethersubr for reuse in other
interfaces that may also need a fake addr.
Reviewed by: bryanv, kp, philip
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D19573
All changes are hidden behind the EXPERIMENTAL option and are not compiled
in by default.
Add ND6_IFF_IPV6_ONLY_MANUAL to be able to set the interface into no-IPv4-mode
manually without router advertisement options. This will allow developers to
test software for the appropriate behaviour even on dual-stack networks or
IPv6-Only networks without the option being set in RA messages.
Update ifconfig to allow setting and displaying the flag.
Update the checks for the filters to check for either the automatic or the manual
flag to be set. Add REVARP to the list of filtered IPv4-related protocols and add
an input filter similar to the output filter.
Add a check, when receiving the IPv6-Only RA flag to see if the receiving
interface has any IPv4 configured. If it does, ignore the IPv6-Only flag.
Add a per-VNET global sysctl, which is on by default, to not process the automatic
RA IPv6-Only flag. This way an administrator (if this is compiled in) has control
over the behaviour in case the node still relies on IPv4.
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
This change defines the RA "6" (IPv6-Only) flag which routers
may advertise, kernel logic to check if all routers on a link
have the flag set and accordingly update a per-interface flag.
If all routers agree that it is an IPv6-only link, ether_output_frame(),
based on the interface flag, will filter out all ETHERTYPE_IP/ARP
frames, drop them, and return EAFNOSUPPORT to upper layers.
The change also updates ndp to show the "6" flag, ifconfig to
display the IPV6_ONLY nd6 flag if set, and rtadvd to allow
announcing the flag.
Further changes to tcpdump (contrib code) are availble and will
be upstreamed.
Tested the code (slightly earlier version) with 2 FreeBSD
IPv6 routers, a FreeBSD laptop on ethernet as well as wifi,
and with Win10 and OSX clients (which did not fall over with
the "6" flag set but not understood).
We may also want to (a) implement and RX filter, and (b) over
time enahnce user space to, say, stop dhclient from running
when the interface flag is set. Also we might want to start
IPv6 before IPv4 in the future.
All the code is hidden under the EXPERIMENTAL option and not
compiled by default as the draft is a work-in-progress and
we cannot rely on the fact that IANA will assign the bits
as requested by the draft and hence they may change.
Dear 6man, you have running code.
Discussed with: Bob Hinden, Brian E Carpenter
given in random(4).
This includes updating of the relevant man pages, and no-longer-used
harvesting parameters.
Ensure that the pseudo-unit-test still does something useful, now also
with the "other" algorithm instead of Yarrow.
PR: 230870
Reviewed by: cem
Approved by: so(delphij,gtetlow)
Approved by: re(marius)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D16898
ether_set_pcp should not be called from ether_output_frame for VLAN
interfaces -- the vid + pcp will be inserted during vlan_transmit in
that case. r337943 sets the VLAN's ifnet's if_pcp to a proper PCP value
and this led to double encapsulation (once with vid 0 and second time
with vid+pcp).
PR: 230794
Reviewed by: kib@
Approved by: re@ (gjb@)
Sponsored by: Chelsio Communications
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D16887
- move harvest mask check inline
- move harvest mask to frequently_read out of actively
modified cache line
- disable ether_input collection and describe its limitations
in NOTES
Typically entropy collection in ether_input was stirring zero
in to the entropy pool while at the same time greatly reducing
max pps. This indicates that perhaps we should more closely
scrutinize how much entropy we're getting from a given source
as well as what our actual entropy collection needs are for
seeding Yarrow.
Reviewed by: cem, gallatin, delphij
Approved by: secteam
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D15526
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
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
The original implementation used a reference to ifr_data and a cast to
do the equivalent of accessing ifr_addr. This was copied multiple
times since 1996.
Approved by: kib
MFC after: 1 week
Sponsored by: DARPA, AFRL
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D14873
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
Forwarded packets passed through PFIL_OUT, which made it difficult for
firewalls to figure out if they were forwarding or producing packets. This in
turn is an issue for pf for IPv6 fragment handling: it needs to call
ip6_output() or ip6_forward() to handle the fragments. Figuring out which was
difficult (and until now, incorrect).
Having pfil distinguish the two removes an ugly piece of code from pf.
Introduce a new variant of the netpfil callbacks with a flags variable, which
has PFIL_FWD set for forwarded packets. This allows pf to reliably work out if
a packet is forwarded.
Reviewed by: ae, kevans
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D13715
Current arp/nd code relies on the feedback from the datapath indicating
that the entry is still used. This mechanism is incorporated into the
arpresolve()/nd6_resolve() routines. After the inpcb route cache
introduction, the packet path for the locally-originated packets changed,
passing cached lle pointer to the ether_output() directly. This resulted
in the arp/ndp entry expire each time exactly after the configured max_age
interval. During the small window between the ARP/NDP request and reply
from the router, most of the packets got lost.
Fix this behaviour by plugging datapath notification code to the packet
path used by route cache. Unify the notification code by using single
inlined function with the per-AF callbacks.
Reported by: sthaug at nethelp.no
Reviewed by: ae
MFC after: 2 weeks
This reduces noise when kernel is compiled by newer GCC versions,
such as one used by external toolchain ports.
Reviewed by: kib, andrew(sys/arm and sys/arm64), emaste(partial), erj(partial)
Reviewed by: jhb (sys/dev/pci/* sys/kern/vfs_aio.c and sys/kern/kern_synch.c)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D10385
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.
ifnet_arrival_event may not be adequate under certain situation; e.g.
when the LLADDR is needed. So the ethernet ifattach event is announced
after all necessary bits are setup.
MFC after: 3 days
Sponsored by: Microsoft
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D11617
An earlier version of r318160 allocated if_hw_addr unconditionally; when it
became conditional, I forgot to check for NULL in ether_ifattach().
Reviewed by: kp
MFC after: 1 week
MFC with: r318160
Sponsored by: Panasas
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D10678
Pointy-hat to: rpokala
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
turn them into a shared definition.
Set M_MCAST/M_BCAST appropriately upon packet reception in net80211, just
before they are delivered up to the ethernet stack.
Submitted by: rstone
Add accessor functions to toggle the state per VNET.
The base system (vnet0) will always enable itself with the normal
registration. We will share the registered protocol handlers in all
VNETs minimising duplication and management.
Upon disabling netisr processing for a VNET drain the netisr queue from
packets for that VNET.
Update netisr consumers to (de)register on a per-VNET start/teardown using
VNET_SYS(UN)INIT functionality.
The change should be transparent for non-VIMAGE kernels.
Reviewed by: gnn (, hiren)
Obtained from: projects/vnet
MFC after: 2 weeks
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D6691
but removed due to other changes in the system. Restore the llentry pointer
to the "struct route", and use it to cache the L2 lookup (ARP or ND6) as
appropriate.
Submitted by: Mike Karels
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D6262
The only piece of information that is required is rt_flags subset.
In particular, if_loop() requires RTF_REJECT and RTF_BLACKHOLE flags
to check if this particular mbuf needs to be dropped (and what
error should be returned).
Note that if_loop() will always return EHOSTUNREACH for "reject" routes
regardless of RTF_HOST flag existence. This is due to upcoming routing
changes where RTF_HOST value won't be available as lookup result.
All other functions require RTF_GATEWAY flag to check if they need
to return EHOSTUNREACH instead of EHOSTDOWN error.
There are 11 places where non-zero 'struct route' is passed to if_output().
For most of the callers (forwarding, bpf, arp) does not care about exact
error value. In fact, the only place where this result is propagated
is ip_output(). (ip6_output() passes NULL route to nd6_output_ifp()).
Given that, add 3 new 'struct route' flags (RT_REJECT, RT_BLACKHOLE and
RT_IS_GW) and inline function (rt_update_ro_flags()) to copy necessary
rte flags to ro_flags. Call this function in ip_output() after looking up/
verifying rte.
Reviewed by: ae
Add if_requestencap() interface method which is capable of calculating
various link headers for given interface. Right now there is support
for INET/INET6/ARP llheader calculation (IFENCAP_LL type request).
Other types are planned to support more complex calculation
(L2 multipath lagg nexthops, tunnel encap nexthops, etc..).
Reshape 'struct route' to be able to pass additional data (with is length)
to prepend to mbuf.
These two changes permits routing code to pass pre-calculated nexthop data
(like L2 header for route w/gateway) down to the stack eliminating the
need for other lookups. It also brings us closer to more complex scenarios
like transparently handling MPLS nexthops and tunnel interfaces.
Last, but not least, it removes layering violation introduced by flowtable
code (ro_lle) and simplifies handling of existing if_output consumers.
ARP/ND changes:
Make arp/ndp stack pre-calculate link header upon installing/updating lle
record. Interface link address change are handled by re-calculating
headers for all lles based on if_lladdr event. After these changes,
arpresolve()/nd6_resolve() returns full pre-calculated header for
supported interfaces thus simplifying if_output().
Move these lookups to separate ether_resolve_addr() function which ether
returs error or fully-prepared link header. Add <arp|nd6_>resolve_addr()
compat versions to return link addresses instead of pre-calculated data.
BPF changes:
Raw bpf writes occupied _two_ cases: AF_UNSPEC and pseudo_AF_HDRCMPLT.
Despite the naming, both of there have ther header "complete". The only
difference is that interface source mac has to be filled by OS for
AF_UNSPEC (controlled via BIOCGHDRCMPLT). This logic has to stay inside
BPF and not pollute if_output() routines. Convert BPF to pass prepend data
via new 'struct route' mechanism. Note that it does not change
non-optimized if_output(): ro_prepend handling is purely optional.
Side note: hackish pseudo_AF_HDRCMPLT is supported for ethernet and FDDI.
It is not needed for ethernet anymore. The only remaining FDDI user is
dev/pdq mostly untouched since 2007. FDDI support was eliminated from
OpenBSD in 2013 (sys/net/if_fddisubr.c rev 1.65).
Flowtable changes:
Flowtable violates layering by saving (and not correctly managing)
rtes/lles. Instead of passing lle pointer, pass pointer to pre-calculated
header data from that lle.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D4102
sysctl and will always be on. The former split between default and
fast forwarding is removed by this commit while preserving the ability
to use all network stack features.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D4042
Reviewed by: ae, melifaro, olivier, rwatson
MFC after: 1 month
Sponsored by: Rubicon Communications (Netgate)
Problem description:
How do we currently perform layer 2 resolution and header imposition:
For IPv4 we have the following chain:
ip_output() -> (ether|atm|whatever)_output() -> arpresolve()
Lookup is done in proper place (link-layer output routine) and it is possible
to provide cached lle data.
For IPv6 situation is more complex:
ip6_output() -> nd6_output() -> nd6_output_ifp() -> (whatever)_output() ->
nd6_storelladdr()
We have ip6_ouput() which calls nd6_output() instead of link output routine.
nd6_output() does the following:
* checks if lle exists, creates it if needed (similar to arpresolve())
* performes lle state transitions (similar to arpresolve())
* calls nd6_output_ifp() which pushes packets to link output routine along
with running SeND/MAC hooks regardless of lle state
(e.g. works as run-hooks placeholder).
After that, iface output routine like ether_output() calls nd6_storelladdr()
which performs lle lookup once again.
As a result, we perform lookup twice for each outgoing packet for most types
of interfaces. We also need to maintain runtime-checked table of 'nd6-free'
interfaces (see nd6_need_cache()).
Fix this behavior by eliminating first ND lookup. To be more specific:
* make all nd6_output() consumers use nd6_output_ifp() instead
* rename nd6_output[_slow]() to nd6_resolve_[slow]()
* convert nd6_resolve() and nd6_resolve_slow() to arpresolve() semantics,
e.g. copy L2 address to buffer instead of pushing packet towards lower
layers
* Make all nd6_storelladdr() users use nd6_resolve()
* eliminate nd6_storelladdr()
The resulting callchain is the following:
ip6_output() -> nd6_output_ifp() -> (whatever)_output() -> nd6_resolve()
Error handling:
Currently sending packet to non-existing la results in ip6_<output|forward>
-> nd6_output() -> nd6_output _lle() which returns 0.
In new scenario packet is propagated to <ether|whatever>_output() ->
nd6_resolve() which will return EWOULDBLOCK, and that result
will be converted to 0.
(And EWOULDBLOCK is actually used by IB/TOE code).
Sponsored by: Yandex LLC
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D1469
* GENERAL
- Update copyright.
- Make kernel options for RANDOM_YARROW and RANDOM_DUMMY. Set
neither to ON, which means we want Fortuna
- If there is no 'device random' in the kernel, there will be NO
random(4) device in the kernel, and the KERN_ARND sysctl will
return nothing. With RANDOM_DUMMY there will be a random(4) that
always blocks.
- Repair kern.arandom (KERN_ARND sysctl). The old version went
through arc4random(9) and was a bit weird.
- Adjust arc4random stirring a bit - the existing code looks a little
suspect.
- Fix the nasty pre- and post-read overloading by providing explictit
functions to do these tasks.
- Redo read_random(9) so as to duplicate random(4)'s read internals.
This makes it a first-class citizen rather than a hack.
- Move stuff out of locked regions when it does not need to be
there.
- Trim RANDOM_DEBUG printfs. Some are excess to requirement, some
behind boot verbose.
- Use SYSINIT to sequence the startup.
- Fix init/deinit sysctl stuff.
- Make relevant sysctls also tunables.
- Add different harvesting "styles" to allow for different requirements
(direct, queue, fast).
- Add harvesting of FFS atime events. This needs to be checked for
weighing down the FS code.
- Add harvesting of slab allocator events. This needs to be checked for
weighing down the allocator code.
- Fix the random(9) manpage.
- Loadable modules are not present for now. These will be re-engineered
when the dust settles.
- Use macros for locks.
- Fix comments.
* src/share/man/...
- Update the man pages.
* src/etc/...
- The startup/shutdown work is done in D2924.
* src/UPDATING
- Add UPDATING announcement.
* src/sys/dev/random/build.sh
- Add copyright.
- Add libz for unit tests.
* src/sys/dev/random/dummy.c
- Remove; no longer needed. Functionality incorporated into randomdev.*.
* live_entropy_sources.c live_entropy_sources.h
- Remove; content moved.
- move content to randomdev.[ch] and optimise.
* src/sys/dev/random/random_adaptors.c src/sys/dev/random/random_adaptors.h
- Remove; plugability is no longer used. Compile-time algorithm
selection is the way to go.
* src/sys/dev/random/random_harvestq.c src/sys/dev/random/random_harvestq.h
- Add early (re)boot-time randomness caching.
* src/sys/dev/random/randomdev_soft.c src/sys/dev/random/randomdev_soft.h
- Remove; no longer needed.
* src/sys/dev/random/uint128.h
- Provide a fake uint128_t; if a real one ever arrived, we can use
that instead. All that is needed here is N=0, N++, N==0, and some
localised trickery is used to manufacture a 128-bit 0ULLL.
* src/sys/dev/random/unit_test.c src/sys/dev/random/unit_test.h
- Improve unit tests; previously the testing human needed clairvoyance;
now the test will do a basic check of compressibility. Clairvoyant
talent is still a good idea.
- This is still a long way off a proper unit test.
* src/sys/dev/random/fortuna.c src/sys/dev/random/fortuna.h
- Improve messy union to just uint128_t.
- Remove unneeded 'static struct fortuna_start_cache'.
- Tighten up up arithmetic.
- Provide a method to allow eternal junk to be introduced; harden
it against blatant by compress/hashing.
- Assert that locks are held correctly.
- Fix the nasty pre- and post-read overloading by providing explictit
functions to do these tasks.
- Turn into self-sufficient module (no longer requires randomdev_soft.[ch])
* src/sys/dev/random/yarrow.c src/sys/dev/random/yarrow.h
- Improve messy union to just uint128_t.
- Remove unneeded 'staic struct start_cache'.
- Tighten up up arithmetic.
- Provide a method to allow eternal junk to be introduced; harden
it against blatant by compress/hashing.
- Assert that locks are held correctly.
- Fix the nasty pre- and post-read overloading by providing explictit
functions to do these tasks.
- Turn into self-sufficient module (no longer requires randomdev_soft.[ch])
- Fix some magic numbers elsewhere used as FAST and SLOW.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D2025
Reviewed by: vsevolod,delphij,rwatson,trasz,jmg
Approved by: so (delphij)
bits.
The motivation here is to eventually teach netisr and potentially
other networking subsystems a bit more about how RSS work queues / buckets
are configured so things have a hope of auto-configuring in the future.
* net/rss_config.[ch] takes care of the generic bits for doing
configuration, hash function selection, etc;
* topelitz.[ch] is now in net/ rather than netinet/;
* (and would be in libkern if it didn't directly include RSS_KEYSIZE;
that's a later thing to fix up.)
* netinet/in_rss.[ch] now just contains the IPv4 specific methods;
* and netinet/in6_rss.[ch] now just contains the IPv6 specific methods.
This should have no functional impact on anyone currently using
the RSS support.
Differential Revision: D1383
Reviewed by: gnn, jfv (intel driver bits)
it, except Ethernet, where it carried ng_ether(4) pointer.
For now carry the pointer in if_l2com directly.
Sponsored by: Netflix
Sponsored by: Nginx, Inc.
This code has had an extensive rewrite and a good series of reviews, both by the author and other parties. This means a lot of code has been simplified. Pluggable structures for high-rate entropy generators are available, and it is most definitely not the case that /dev/random can be driven by only a hardware souce any more. This has been designed out of the device. Hardware sources are stirred into the CSPRNG (Yarrow, Fortuna) like any other entropy source. Pluggable modules may be written by third parties for additional sources.
The harvesting structures and consequently the locking have been simplified. Entropy harvesting is done in a more general way (the documentation for this will follow). There is some GREAT entropy to be had in the UMA allocator, but it is disabled for now as messing with that is likely to annoy many people.
The venerable (but effective) Yarrow algorithm, which is no longer supported by its authors now has an alternative, Fortuna. For now, Yarrow is retained as the default algorithm, but this may be changed using a kernel option. It is intended to make Fortuna the default algorithm for 11.0. Interested parties are encouraged to read ISBN 978-0-470-47424-2 "Cryptography Engineering" By Ferguson, Schneier and Kohno for Fortuna's gory details. Heck, read it anyway.
Many thanks to Arthur Mesh who did early grunt work, and who got caught in the crossfire rather more than he deserved to.
My thanks also to folks who helped me thresh this out on whiteboards and in the odd "Hallway track", or otherwise.
My Nomex pants are on. Let the feedback commence!
Reviewed by: trasz,des(partial),imp(partial?),rwatson(partial?)
Approved by: so(des)
linking NIC Receive Side Scaling (RSS) to the network stack's
connection-group implementation. This prototype (and derived patches)
are in use at Juniper and several other FreeBSD-using companies, so
despite some reservations about its maturity, merge the patch to the
base tree so that it can be iteratively refined in collaboration rather
than maintained as a set of gradually diverging patch sets.
(1) Merge a software implementation of the Toeplitz hash specified in
RSS implemented by David Malone. This is used to allow suitable
pcbgroup placement of connections before the first packet is
received from the NIC. Software hashing is generally avoided,
however, due to high cost of the hash on general-purpose CPUs.
(2) In in_rss.c, maintain authoritative versions of RSS state intended
to be pushed to each NIC, including keying material, hash
algorithm/ configuration, and buckets. Provide software-facing
interfaces to hash 2- and 4-tuples for IPv4 and IPv6 using both
the RSS standardised Toeplitz and a 'naive' variation with a hash
efficient in software but with poor distribution properties.
Implement rss_m2cpuid()to be used by netisr and other load
balancing code to look up the CPU on which an mbuf should be
processed.
(3) In the Ethernet link layer, allow netisr distribution using RSS as
a source of policy as an alternative to source ordering; continue
to default to direct dispatch (i.e., don't try and requeue packets
for processing on the 'right' CPU if they arrive in a directly
dispatchable context).
(4) Allow RSS to control tuning of connection groups in order to align
groups with RSS buckets. If a packet arrives on a protocol using
connection groups, and contains a suitable hardware-generated
hash, use that hash value to select the connection group for pcb
lookup for both IPv4 and IPv6. If no hardware-generated Toeplitz
hash is available, we fall back on regular PCB lookup risking
contention rather than pay the cost of Toeplitz in software --
this is a less scalable but, at my last measurement, faster
approach. As core counts go up, we may want to revise this
strategy despite CPU overhead.
Where device drivers suitably configure NICs, and connection groups /
RSS are enabled, this should avoid both lock and line contention during
connection lookup for TCP. This commit does not modify any device
drivers to tune device RSS configuration to the global RSS
configuration; patches are in circulation to do this for at least
Chelsio T3 and Intel 1G/10G drivers. Currently, the KPI for device
drivers is not particularly robust, nor aware of more advanced features
such as runtime reconfiguration/rebalancing. This will hopefully prove
a useful starting point for refinement.
No MFC is scheduled as we will first want to nail down a more mature
and maintainable KPI/KBI for device drivers.
Sponsored by: Juniper Networks (original work)
Sponsored by: EMC/Isilon (patch update and merge)
AppleTalk was a network transport protocol for Apple Macintosh devices
in 80s and then 90s. Starting with Mac OS X in 2000 the AppleTalk was
a legacy protocol and primary networking protocol is TCP/IP. The last
Mac OS X release to support AppleTalk happened in 2009. The same year
routing equipment vendors (namely Cisco) end their support.
Thus, AppleTalk won't be supported in FreeBSD 11.0-RELEASE.
IPX was a network transport protocol in Novell's NetWare network operating
system from late 80s and then 90s. The NetWare itself switched to TCP/IP
as default transport in 1998. Later, in this century the Novell Open
Enterprise Server became successor of Novell NetWare. The last release
that claimed to still support IPX was OES 2 in 2007. Routing equipment
vendors (e.g. Cisco) discontinued support for IPX in 2011.
Thus, IPX won't be supported in FreeBSD 11.0-RELEASE.
callback providers. link_init_sdl() function can be used to
fill most of the parameters. Use caller stack instead of
allocation / freing memory for each request. Do not drop support
for extra-long (probably non-existing) link-layer protocols by
introducing link_alloc_sdl() (used by if_resolvemulti() callback)
and link_free_sdl() (used by caller).
Since this change breaks KBI, MFC requires slightly different approach
(link_init_sdl() auto-allocating buffer if necessary to handle cases
with unmodified if_resolvemulti() callers).
MFC after: 2 weeks
