- Re-write tcp_ctlinput6() to closely mimic the IPv4 tcp_ctlinput()
- Now that tcp_ctlinput6() updates t_maxseg, we can allow ip6_output()
to send TCP packets without looking at the tcp host cache for every
single transmit.
- Make the icmp6 code mimic the IPv4 code & avoid returning
PRC_HOSTDEAD because it is so expensive.
Without these changes in place, every TCP6 pmtu discovery or host
unreachable ICMP resulted in a call to in6_pcbnotify() which walks the
tcbinfo table with the write lock held. Because the tcbinfo table is
shared between IPv4 and IPv6, this causes huge scalabilty issues on
servers with lots of (~100K) TCP connections, to the point where even
a small percent of IPv6 traffic had a disproportionate impact on
overall throughput.
Reviewed by: bz, rrs, ae (all earlier versions), lstewart (in Netflix's tree)
Sponsored by: Netflix
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D7272
d4c22202e6