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Implement a CPU-affine TCP and UDP connection lookup data structure, struct inpcbgroup. pcbgroups, or "connection groups", supplement the existing inpcbinfo connection hash table, which when pcbgroups are enabled, might now be thought of more usefully as a per-protocol 4-tuple reservation table. Connections are assigned to connection groups base on a hash of their 4-tuple; wildcard sockets require special handling, and are members of all connection groups. During a connection lookup, a per-connection group lock is employed rather than the global pcbinfo lock. By aligning connection groups with input path processing, connection groups take on an effective CPU affinity, especially when aligned with RSS work placement (see a forthcoming commit for details). This eliminates cache line migration associated with global, protocol-layer data structures in steady state TCP and UDP processing (with the exception of protocol-layer statistics; further commit to follow). Elements of this approach were inspired by Willman, Rixner, and Cox's 2006 USENIX paper, "An Evaluation of Network Stack Parallelization Strategies in Modern Operating Systems". However, there are also significant differences: we maintain the inpcb lock, rather than using the connection group lock for per-connection state. Likewise, the focus of this implementation is alignment with NIC packet distribution strategies such as RSS, rather than pure software strategies. Despite that focus, software distribution is supported through the parallel netisr implementation, and works well in configurations where the number of hardware threads is greater than the number of NIC input queues, such as in the RMI XLR threaded MIPS architecture. Another important difference is the continued maintenance of existing hash tables as "reservation tables" -- these are useful both to distinguish the resource allocation aspect of protocol name management and the more common-case lookup aspect. In configurations where connection tables are aligned with hardware hashes, it is desirable to use the traditional lookup tables for loopback or encapsulated traffic rather than take the expense of hardware hashes that are hard to implement efficiently in software (such as RSS Toeplitz). Connection group support is enabled by compiling "options PCBGROUP" into your kernel configuration; for the time being, this is an experimental feature, and hence is not enabled by default. Subject to the limited MFCability of change dependencies in inpcb, and its change to the inpcbinfo init function signature, this change in principle could be merged to FreeBSD 8.x. Reviewed by: bz Sponsored by: Juniper Networks, Inc.
2011-06-06 12:55:02 +00:00
/*-
* Copyright (c) 2010-2011 Juniper Networks, Inc.
* All rights reserved.
*
* This software was developed by Robert N. M. Watson under contract
* to Juniper Networks, Inc.
*
* Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
* modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
* are met:
* 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
* notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
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*
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* IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE
* ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE
* FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL
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* OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
* SUCH DAMAGE.
*/
#include <sys/cdefs.h>
__FBSDID("$FreeBSD$");
#include "opt_inet6.h"
Several years after initial development, merge prototype support for 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)
2014-03-15 00:57:50 +00:00
#include "opt_rss.h"
Implement a CPU-affine TCP and UDP connection lookup data structure, struct inpcbgroup. pcbgroups, or "connection groups", supplement the existing inpcbinfo connection hash table, which when pcbgroups are enabled, might now be thought of more usefully as a per-protocol 4-tuple reservation table. Connections are assigned to connection groups base on a hash of their 4-tuple; wildcard sockets require special handling, and are members of all connection groups. During a connection lookup, a per-connection group lock is employed rather than the global pcbinfo lock. By aligning connection groups with input path processing, connection groups take on an effective CPU affinity, especially when aligned with RSS work placement (see a forthcoming commit for details). This eliminates cache line migration associated with global, protocol-layer data structures in steady state TCP and UDP processing (with the exception of protocol-layer statistics; further commit to follow). Elements of this approach were inspired by Willman, Rixner, and Cox's 2006 USENIX paper, "An Evaluation of Network Stack Parallelization Strategies in Modern Operating Systems". However, there are also significant differences: we maintain the inpcb lock, rather than using the connection group lock for per-connection state. Likewise, the focus of this implementation is alignment with NIC packet distribution strategies such as RSS, rather than pure software strategies. Despite that focus, software distribution is supported through the parallel netisr implementation, and works well in configurations where the number of hardware threads is greater than the number of NIC input queues, such as in the RMI XLR threaded MIPS architecture. Another important difference is the continued maintenance of existing hash tables as "reservation tables" -- these are useful both to distinguish the resource allocation aspect of protocol name management and the more common-case lookup aspect. In configurations where connection tables are aligned with hardware hashes, it is desirable to use the traditional lookup tables for loopback or encapsulated traffic rather than take the expense of hardware hashes that are hard to implement efficiently in software (such as RSS Toeplitz). Connection group support is enabled by compiling "options PCBGROUP" into your kernel configuration; for the time being, this is an experimental feature, and hence is not enabled by default. Subject to the limited MFCability of change dependencies in inpcb, and its change to the inpcbinfo init function signature, this change in principle could be merged to FreeBSD 8.x. Reviewed by: bz Sponsored by: Juniper Networks, Inc.
2011-06-06 12:55:02 +00:00
#include <sys/param.h>
#include <sys/mbuf.h>
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#include <sys/socket.h>
Implement a CPU-affine TCP and UDP connection lookup data structure, struct inpcbgroup. pcbgroups, or "connection groups", supplement the existing inpcbinfo connection hash table, which when pcbgroups are enabled, might now be thought of more usefully as a per-protocol 4-tuple reservation table. Connections are assigned to connection groups base on a hash of their 4-tuple; wildcard sockets require special handling, and are members of all connection groups. During a connection lookup, a per-connection group lock is employed rather than the global pcbinfo lock. By aligning connection groups with input path processing, connection groups take on an effective CPU affinity, especially when aligned with RSS work placement (see a forthcoming commit for details). This eliminates cache line migration associated with global, protocol-layer data structures in steady state TCP and UDP processing (with the exception of protocol-layer statistics; further commit to follow). Elements of this approach were inspired by Willman, Rixner, and Cox's 2006 USENIX paper, "An Evaluation of Network Stack Parallelization Strategies in Modern Operating Systems". However, there are also significant differences: we maintain the inpcb lock, rather than using the connection group lock for per-connection state. Likewise, the focus of this implementation is alignment with NIC packet distribution strategies such as RSS, rather than pure software strategies. Despite that focus, software distribution is supported through the parallel netisr implementation, and works well in configurations where the number of hardware threads is greater than the number of NIC input queues, such as in the RMI XLR threaded MIPS architecture. Another important difference is the continued maintenance of existing hash tables as "reservation tables" -- these are useful both to distinguish the resource allocation aspect of protocol name management and the more common-case lookup aspect. In configurations where connection tables are aligned with hardware hashes, it is desirable to use the traditional lookup tables for loopback or encapsulated traffic rather than take the expense of hardware hashes that are hard to implement efficiently in software (such as RSS Toeplitz). Connection group support is enabled by compiling "options PCBGROUP" into your kernel configuration; for the time being, this is an experimental feature, and hence is not enabled by default. Subject to the limited MFCability of change dependencies in inpcb, and its change to the inpcbinfo init function signature, this change in principle could be merged to FreeBSD 8.x. Reviewed by: bz Sponsored by: Juniper Networks, Inc.
2011-06-06 12:55:02 +00:00
#include <net/rss_config.h>
Implement a CPU-affine TCP and UDP connection lookup data structure, struct inpcbgroup. pcbgroups, or "connection groups", supplement the existing inpcbinfo connection hash table, which when pcbgroups are enabled, might now be thought of more usefully as a per-protocol 4-tuple reservation table. Connections are assigned to connection groups base on a hash of their 4-tuple; wildcard sockets require special handling, and are members of all connection groups. During a connection lookup, a per-connection group lock is employed rather than the global pcbinfo lock. By aligning connection groups with input path processing, connection groups take on an effective CPU affinity, especially when aligned with RSS work placement (see a forthcoming commit for details). This eliminates cache line migration associated with global, protocol-layer data structures in steady state TCP and UDP processing (with the exception of protocol-layer statistics; further commit to follow). Elements of this approach were inspired by Willman, Rixner, and Cox's 2006 USENIX paper, "An Evaluation of Network Stack Parallelization Strategies in Modern Operating Systems". However, there are also significant differences: we maintain the inpcb lock, rather than using the connection group lock for per-connection state. Likewise, the focus of this implementation is alignment with NIC packet distribution strategies such as RSS, rather than pure software strategies. Despite that focus, software distribution is supported through the parallel netisr implementation, and works well in configurations where the number of hardware threads is greater than the number of NIC input queues, such as in the RMI XLR threaded MIPS architecture. Another important difference is the continued maintenance of existing hash tables as "reservation tables" -- these are useful both to distinguish the resource allocation aspect of protocol name management and the more common-case lookup aspect. In configurations where connection tables are aligned with hardware hashes, it is desirable to use the traditional lookup tables for loopback or encapsulated traffic rather than take the expense of hardware hashes that are hard to implement efficiently in software (such as RSS Toeplitz). Connection group support is enabled by compiling "options PCBGROUP" into your kernel configuration; for the time being, this is an experimental feature, and hence is not enabled by default. Subject to the limited MFCability of change dependencies in inpcb, and its change to the inpcbinfo init function signature, this change in principle could be merged to FreeBSD 8.x. Reviewed by: bz Sponsored by: Juniper Networks, Inc.
2011-06-06 12:55:02 +00:00
#include <netinet/in.h>
#include <netinet/in_pcb.h>
#ifdef INET6
#include <netinet6/in6_pcb.h>
#include <netinet6/in6_rss.h>
Implement a CPU-affine TCP and UDP connection lookup data structure, struct inpcbgroup. pcbgroups, or "connection groups", supplement the existing inpcbinfo connection hash table, which when pcbgroups are enabled, might now be thought of more usefully as a per-protocol 4-tuple reservation table. Connections are assigned to connection groups base on a hash of their 4-tuple; wildcard sockets require special handling, and are members of all connection groups. During a connection lookup, a per-connection group lock is employed rather than the global pcbinfo lock. By aligning connection groups with input path processing, connection groups take on an effective CPU affinity, especially when aligned with RSS work placement (see a forthcoming commit for details). This eliminates cache line migration associated with global, protocol-layer data structures in steady state TCP and UDP processing (with the exception of protocol-layer statistics; further commit to follow). Elements of this approach were inspired by Willman, Rixner, and Cox's 2006 USENIX paper, "An Evaluation of Network Stack Parallelization Strategies in Modern Operating Systems". However, there are also significant differences: we maintain the inpcb lock, rather than using the connection group lock for per-connection state. Likewise, the focus of this implementation is alignment with NIC packet distribution strategies such as RSS, rather than pure software strategies. Despite that focus, software distribution is supported through the parallel netisr implementation, and works well in configurations where the number of hardware threads is greater than the number of NIC input queues, such as in the RMI XLR threaded MIPS architecture. Another important difference is the continued maintenance of existing hash tables as "reservation tables" -- these are useful both to distinguish the resource allocation aspect of protocol name management and the more common-case lookup aspect. In configurations where connection tables are aligned with hardware hashes, it is desirable to use the traditional lookup tables for loopback or encapsulated traffic rather than take the expense of hardware hashes that are hard to implement efficiently in software (such as RSS Toeplitz). Connection group support is enabled by compiling "options PCBGROUP" into your kernel configuration; for the time being, this is an experimental feature, and hence is not enabled by default. Subject to the limited MFCability of change dependencies in inpcb, and its change to the inpcbinfo init function signature, this change in principle could be merged to FreeBSD 8.x. Reviewed by: bz Sponsored by: Juniper Networks, Inc.
2011-06-06 12:55:02 +00:00
#endif /* INET6 */
/*
* Given a hash of whatever the covered tuple might be, return a pcbgroup
Several years after initial development, merge prototype support for 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)
2014-03-15 00:57:50 +00:00
* index. Where RSS is supported, try to align bucket selection with RSS CPU
* affinity strategy.
Implement a CPU-affine TCP and UDP connection lookup data structure, struct inpcbgroup. pcbgroups, or "connection groups", supplement the existing inpcbinfo connection hash table, which when pcbgroups are enabled, might now be thought of more usefully as a per-protocol 4-tuple reservation table. Connections are assigned to connection groups base on a hash of their 4-tuple; wildcard sockets require special handling, and are members of all connection groups. During a connection lookup, a per-connection group lock is employed rather than the global pcbinfo lock. By aligning connection groups with input path processing, connection groups take on an effective CPU affinity, especially when aligned with RSS work placement (see a forthcoming commit for details). This eliminates cache line migration associated with global, protocol-layer data structures in steady state TCP and UDP processing (with the exception of protocol-layer statistics; further commit to follow). Elements of this approach were inspired by Willman, Rixner, and Cox's 2006 USENIX paper, "An Evaluation of Network Stack Parallelization Strategies in Modern Operating Systems". However, there are also significant differences: we maintain the inpcb lock, rather than using the connection group lock for per-connection state. Likewise, the focus of this implementation is alignment with NIC packet distribution strategies such as RSS, rather than pure software strategies. Despite that focus, software distribution is supported through the parallel netisr implementation, and works well in configurations where the number of hardware threads is greater than the number of NIC input queues, such as in the RMI XLR threaded MIPS architecture. Another important difference is the continued maintenance of existing hash tables as "reservation tables" -- these are useful both to distinguish the resource allocation aspect of protocol name management and the more common-case lookup aspect. In configurations where connection tables are aligned with hardware hashes, it is desirable to use the traditional lookup tables for loopback or encapsulated traffic rather than take the expense of hardware hashes that are hard to implement efficiently in software (such as RSS Toeplitz). Connection group support is enabled by compiling "options PCBGROUP" into your kernel configuration; for the time being, this is an experimental feature, and hence is not enabled by default. Subject to the limited MFCability of change dependencies in inpcb, and its change to the inpcbinfo init function signature, this change in principle could be merged to FreeBSD 8.x. Reviewed by: bz Sponsored by: Juniper Networks, Inc.
2011-06-06 12:55:02 +00:00
*/
static __inline u_int
in6_pcbgroup_getbucket(struct inpcbinfo *pcbinfo, uint32_t hash)
{
Several years after initial development, merge prototype support for 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)
2014-03-15 00:57:50 +00:00
#ifdef RSS
return (rss_getbucket(hash));
#else
Implement a CPU-affine TCP and UDP connection lookup data structure, struct inpcbgroup. pcbgroups, or "connection groups", supplement the existing inpcbinfo connection hash table, which when pcbgroups are enabled, might now be thought of more usefully as a per-protocol 4-tuple reservation table. Connections are assigned to connection groups base on a hash of their 4-tuple; wildcard sockets require special handling, and are members of all connection groups. During a connection lookup, a per-connection group lock is employed rather than the global pcbinfo lock. By aligning connection groups with input path processing, connection groups take on an effective CPU affinity, especially when aligned with RSS work placement (see a forthcoming commit for details). This eliminates cache line migration associated with global, protocol-layer data structures in steady state TCP and UDP processing (with the exception of protocol-layer statistics; further commit to follow). Elements of this approach were inspired by Willman, Rixner, and Cox's 2006 USENIX paper, "An Evaluation of Network Stack Parallelization Strategies in Modern Operating Systems". However, there are also significant differences: we maintain the inpcb lock, rather than using the connection group lock for per-connection state. Likewise, the focus of this implementation is alignment with NIC packet distribution strategies such as RSS, rather than pure software strategies. Despite that focus, software distribution is supported through the parallel netisr implementation, and works well in configurations where the number of hardware threads is greater than the number of NIC input queues, such as in the RMI XLR threaded MIPS architecture. Another important difference is the continued maintenance of existing hash tables as "reservation tables" -- these are useful both to distinguish the resource allocation aspect of protocol name management and the more common-case lookup aspect. In configurations where connection tables are aligned with hardware hashes, it is desirable to use the traditional lookup tables for loopback or encapsulated traffic rather than take the expense of hardware hashes that are hard to implement efficiently in software (such as RSS Toeplitz). Connection group support is enabled by compiling "options PCBGROUP" into your kernel configuration; for the time being, this is an experimental feature, and hence is not enabled by default. Subject to the limited MFCability of change dependencies in inpcb, and its change to the inpcbinfo init function signature, this change in principle could be merged to FreeBSD 8.x. Reviewed by: bz Sponsored by: Juniper Networks, Inc.
2011-06-06 12:55:02 +00:00
return (hash % pcbinfo->ipi_npcbgroups);
Several years after initial development, merge prototype support for 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)
2014-03-15 00:57:50 +00:00
#endif
Implement a CPU-affine TCP and UDP connection lookup data structure, struct inpcbgroup. pcbgroups, or "connection groups", supplement the existing inpcbinfo connection hash table, which when pcbgroups are enabled, might now be thought of more usefully as a per-protocol 4-tuple reservation table. Connections are assigned to connection groups base on a hash of their 4-tuple; wildcard sockets require special handling, and are members of all connection groups. During a connection lookup, a per-connection group lock is employed rather than the global pcbinfo lock. By aligning connection groups with input path processing, connection groups take on an effective CPU affinity, especially when aligned with RSS work placement (see a forthcoming commit for details). This eliminates cache line migration associated with global, protocol-layer data structures in steady state TCP and UDP processing (with the exception of protocol-layer statistics; further commit to follow). Elements of this approach were inspired by Willman, Rixner, and Cox's 2006 USENIX paper, "An Evaluation of Network Stack Parallelization Strategies in Modern Operating Systems". However, there are also significant differences: we maintain the inpcb lock, rather than using the connection group lock for per-connection state. Likewise, the focus of this implementation is alignment with NIC packet distribution strategies such as RSS, rather than pure software strategies. Despite that focus, software distribution is supported through the parallel netisr implementation, and works well in configurations where the number of hardware threads is greater than the number of NIC input queues, such as in the RMI XLR threaded MIPS architecture. Another important difference is the continued maintenance of existing hash tables as "reservation tables" -- these are useful both to distinguish the resource allocation aspect of protocol name management and the more common-case lookup aspect. In configurations where connection tables are aligned with hardware hashes, it is desirable to use the traditional lookup tables for loopback or encapsulated traffic rather than take the expense of hardware hashes that are hard to implement efficiently in software (such as RSS Toeplitz). Connection group support is enabled by compiling "options PCBGROUP" into your kernel configuration; for the time being, this is an experimental feature, and hence is not enabled by default. Subject to the limited MFCability of change dependencies in inpcb, and its change to the inpcbinfo init function signature, this change in principle could be merged to FreeBSD 8.x. Reviewed by: bz Sponsored by: Juniper Networks, Inc.
2011-06-06 12:55:02 +00:00
}
/*
* Map a (hashtype, hash) tuple into a connection group, or NULL if the hash
Several years after initial development, merge prototype support for 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)
2014-03-15 00:57:50 +00:00
* information is insufficient to identify the pcbgroup. This might occur if
* a TCP packet turnsup with a 2-tuple hash, or if an RSS hash is present but
* RSS is not compiled into the kernel.
Implement a CPU-affine TCP and UDP connection lookup data structure, struct inpcbgroup. pcbgroups, or "connection groups", supplement the existing inpcbinfo connection hash table, which when pcbgroups are enabled, might now be thought of more usefully as a per-protocol 4-tuple reservation table. Connections are assigned to connection groups base on a hash of their 4-tuple; wildcard sockets require special handling, and are members of all connection groups. During a connection lookup, a per-connection group lock is employed rather than the global pcbinfo lock. By aligning connection groups with input path processing, connection groups take on an effective CPU affinity, especially when aligned with RSS work placement (see a forthcoming commit for details). This eliminates cache line migration associated with global, protocol-layer data structures in steady state TCP and UDP processing (with the exception of protocol-layer statistics; further commit to follow). Elements of this approach were inspired by Willman, Rixner, and Cox's 2006 USENIX paper, "An Evaluation of Network Stack Parallelization Strategies in Modern Operating Systems". However, there are also significant differences: we maintain the inpcb lock, rather than using the connection group lock for per-connection state. Likewise, the focus of this implementation is alignment with NIC packet distribution strategies such as RSS, rather than pure software strategies. Despite that focus, software distribution is supported through the parallel netisr implementation, and works well in configurations where the number of hardware threads is greater than the number of NIC input queues, such as in the RMI XLR threaded MIPS architecture. Another important difference is the continued maintenance of existing hash tables as "reservation tables" -- these are useful both to distinguish the resource allocation aspect of protocol name management and the more common-case lookup aspect. In configurations where connection tables are aligned with hardware hashes, it is desirable to use the traditional lookup tables for loopback or encapsulated traffic rather than take the expense of hardware hashes that are hard to implement efficiently in software (such as RSS Toeplitz). Connection group support is enabled by compiling "options PCBGROUP" into your kernel configuration; for the time being, this is an experimental feature, and hence is not enabled by default. Subject to the limited MFCability of change dependencies in inpcb, and its change to the inpcbinfo init function signature, this change in principle could be merged to FreeBSD 8.x. Reviewed by: bz Sponsored by: Juniper Networks, Inc.
2011-06-06 12:55:02 +00:00
*/
struct inpcbgroup *
in6_pcbgroup_byhash(struct inpcbinfo *pcbinfo, u_int hashtype, uint32_t hash)
{
Several years after initial development, merge prototype support for 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)
2014-03-15 00:57:50 +00:00
#ifdef RSS
if ((pcbinfo->ipi_hashfields == IPI_HASHFIELDS_4TUPLE &&
hashtype == M_HASHTYPE_RSS_TCP_IPV6) ||
(pcbinfo->ipi_hashfields == IPI_HASHFIELDS_4TUPLE &&
hashtype == M_HASHTYPE_RSS_UDP_IPV6) ||
Several years after initial development, merge prototype support for 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)
2014-03-15 00:57:50 +00:00
(pcbinfo->ipi_hashfields == IPI_HASHFIELDS_2TUPLE &&
hashtype == M_HASHTYPE_RSS_IPV6))
Several years after initial development, merge prototype support for 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)
2014-03-15 00:57:50 +00:00
return (&pcbinfo->ipi_pcbgroups[
in6_pcbgroup_getbucket(pcbinfo, hash)]);
#endif
Implement a CPU-affine TCP and UDP connection lookup data structure, struct inpcbgroup. pcbgroups, or "connection groups", supplement the existing inpcbinfo connection hash table, which when pcbgroups are enabled, might now be thought of more usefully as a per-protocol 4-tuple reservation table. Connections are assigned to connection groups base on a hash of their 4-tuple; wildcard sockets require special handling, and are members of all connection groups. During a connection lookup, a per-connection group lock is employed rather than the global pcbinfo lock. By aligning connection groups with input path processing, connection groups take on an effective CPU affinity, especially when aligned with RSS work placement (see a forthcoming commit for details). This eliminates cache line migration associated with global, protocol-layer data structures in steady state TCP and UDP processing (with the exception of protocol-layer statistics; further commit to follow). Elements of this approach were inspired by Willman, Rixner, and Cox's 2006 USENIX paper, "An Evaluation of Network Stack Parallelization Strategies in Modern Operating Systems". However, there are also significant differences: we maintain the inpcb lock, rather than using the connection group lock for per-connection state. Likewise, the focus of this implementation is alignment with NIC packet distribution strategies such as RSS, rather than pure software strategies. Despite that focus, software distribution is supported through the parallel netisr implementation, and works well in configurations where the number of hardware threads is greater than the number of NIC input queues, such as in the RMI XLR threaded MIPS architecture. Another important difference is the continued maintenance of existing hash tables as "reservation tables" -- these are useful both to distinguish the resource allocation aspect of protocol name management and the more common-case lookup aspect. In configurations where connection tables are aligned with hardware hashes, it is desirable to use the traditional lookup tables for loopback or encapsulated traffic rather than take the expense of hardware hashes that are hard to implement efficiently in software (such as RSS Toeplitz). Connection group support is enabled by compiling "options PCBGROUP" into your kernel configuration; for the time being, this is an experimental feature, and hence is not enabled by default. Subject to the limited MFCability of change dependencies in inpcb, and its change to the inpcbinfo init function signature, this change in principle could be merged to FreeBSD 8.x. Reviewed by: bz Sponsored by: Juniper Networks, Inc.
2011-06-06 12:55:02 +00:00
return (NULL);
}
struct inpcbgroup *
in6_pcbgroup_bymbuf(struct inpcbinfo *pcbinfo, struct mbuf *m)
{
return (in6_pcbgroup_byhash(pcbinfo, M_HASHTYPE_GET(m),
m->m_pkthdr.flowid));
}
struct inpcbgroup *
in6_pcbgroup_bytuple(struct inpcbinfo *pcbinfo, const struct in6_addr *laddrp,
u_short lport, const struct in6_addr *faddrp, u_short fport)
{
uint32_t hash;
Several years after initial development, merge prototype support for 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)
2014-03-15 00:57:50 +00:00
/*
* RSS note: we pass foreign addr/port as source, and local addr/port
* as destination, as we want to align with what the hardware is
* doing.
*/
Implement a CPU-affine TCP and UDP connection lookup data structure, struct inpcbgroup. pcbgroups, or "connection groups", supplement the existing inpcbinfo connection hash table, which when pcbgroups are enabled, might now be thought of more usefully as a per-protocol 4-tuple reservation table. Connections are assigned to connection groups base on a hash of their 4-tuple; wildcard sockets require special handling, and are members of all connection groups. During a connection lookup, a per-connection group lock is employed rather than the global pcbinfo lock. By aligning connection groups with input path processing, connection groups take on an effective CPU affinity, especially when aligned with RSS work placement (see a forthcoming commit for details). This eliminates cache line migration associated with global, protocol-layer data structures in steady state TCP and UDP processing (with the exception of protocol-layer statistics; further commit to follow). Elements of this approach were inspired by Willman, Rixner, and Cox's 2006 USENIX paper, "An Evaluation of Network Stack Parallelization Strategies in Modern Operating Systems". However, there are also significant differences: we maintain the inpcb lock, rather than using the connection group lock for per-connection state. Likewise, the focus of this implementation is alignment with NIC packet distribution strategies such as RSS, rather than pure software strategies. Despite that focus, software distribution is supported through the parallel netisr implementation, and works well in configurations where the number of hardware threads is greater than the number of NIC input queues, such as in the RMI XLR threaded MIPS architecture. Another important difference is the continued maintenance of existing hash tables as "reservation tables" -- these are useful both to distinguish the resource allocation aspect of protocol name management and the more common-case lookup aspect. In configurations where connection tables are aligned with hardware hashes, it is desirable to use the traditional lookup tables for loopback or encapsulated traffic rather than take the expense of hardware hashes that are hard to implement efficiently in software (such as RSS Toeplitz). Connection group support is enabled by compiling "options PCBGROUP" into your kernel configuration; for the time being, this is an experimental feature, and hence is not enabled by default. Subject to the limited MFCability of change dependencies in inpcb, and its change to the inpcbinfo init function signature, this change in principle could be merged to FreeBSD 8.x. Reviewed by: bz Sponsored by: Juniper Networks, Inc.
2011-06-06 12:55:02 +00:00
switch (pcbinfo->ipi_hashfields) {
case IPI_HASHFIELDS_4TUPLE:
Several years after initial development, merge prototype support for 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)
2014-03-15 00:57:50 +00:00
#ifdef RSS
hash = rss_hash_ip6_4tuple(faddrp, fport, laddrp, lport);
Several years after initial development, merge prototype support for 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)
2014-03-15 00:57:50 +00:00
#else
Implement a CPU-affine TCP and UDP connection lookup data structure, struct inpcbgroup. pcbgroups, or "connection groups", supplement the existing inpcbinfo connection hash table, which when pcbgroups are enabled, might now be thought of more usefully as a per-protocol 4-tuple reservation table. Connections are assigned to connection groups base on a hash of their 4-tuple; wildcard sockets require special handling, and are members of all connection groups. During a connection lookup, a per-connection group lock is employed rather than the global pcbinfo lock. By aligning connection groups with input path processing, connection groups take on an effective CPU affinity, especially when aligned with RSS work placement (see a forthcoming commit for details). This eliminates cache line migration associated with global, protocol-layer data structures in steady state TCP and UDP processing (with the exception of protocol-layer statistics; further commit to follow). Elements of this approach were inspired by Willman, Rixner, and Cox's 2006 USENIX paper, "An Evaluation of Network Stack Parallelization Strategies in Modern Operating Systems". However, there are also significant differences: we maintain the inpcb lock, rather than using the connection group lock for per-connection state. Likewise, the focus of this implementation is alignment with NIC packet distribution strategies such as RSS, rather than pure software strategies. Despite that focus, software distribution is supported through the parallel netisr implementation, and works well in configurations where the number of hardware threads is greater than the number of NIC input queues, such as in the RMI XLR threaded MIPS architecture. Another important difference is the continued maintenance of existing hash tables as "reservation tables" -- these are useful both to distinguish the resource allocation aspect of protocol name management and the more common-case lookup aspect. In configurations where connection tables are aligned with hardware hashes, it is desirable to use the traditional lookup tables for loopback or encapsulated traffic rather than take the expense of hardware hashes that are hard to implement efficiently in software (such as RSS Toeplitz). Connection group support is enabled by compiling "options PCBGROUP" into your kernel configuration; for the time being, this is an experimental feature, and hence is not enabled by default. Subject to the limited MFCability of change dependencies in inpcb, and its change to the inpcbinfo init function signature, this change in principle could be merged to FreeBSD 8.x. Reviewed by: bz Sponsored by: Juniper Networks, Inc.
2011-06-06 12:55:02 +00:00
hash = faddrp->s6_addr32[3] ^ fport;
Several years after initial development, merge prototype support for 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)
2014-03-15 00:57:50 +00:00
#endif
Implement a CPU-affine TCP and UDP connection lookup data structure, struct inpcbgroup. pcbgroups, or "connection groups", supplement the existing inpcbinfo connection hash table, which when pcbgroups are enabled, might now be thought of more usefully as a per-protocol 4-tuple reservation table. Connections are assigned to connection groups base on a hash of their 4-tuple; wildcard sockets require special handling, and are members of all connection groups. During a connection lookup, a per-connection group lock is employed rather than the global pcbinfo lock. By aligning connection groups with input path processing, connection groups take on an effective CPU affinity, especially when aligned with RSS work placement (see a forthcoming commit for details). This eliminates cache line migration associated with global, protocol-layer data structures in steady state TCP and UDP processing (with the exception of protocol-layer statistics; further commit to follow). Elements of this approach were inspired by Willman, Rixner, and Cox's 2006 USENIX paper, "An Evaluation of Network Stack Parallelization Strategies in Modern Operating Systems". However, there are also significant differences: we maintain the inpcb lock, rather than using the connection group lock for per-connection state. Likewise, the focus of this implementation is alignment with NIC packet distribution strategies such as RSS, rather than pure software strategies. Despite that focus, software distribution is supported through the parallel netisr implementation, and works well in configurations where the number of hardware threads is greater than the number of NIC input queues, such as in the RMI XLR threaded MIPS architecture. Another important difference is the continued maintenance of existing hash tables as "reservation tables" -- these are useful both to distinguish the resource allocation aspect of protocol name management and the more common-case lookup aspect. In configurations where connection tables are aligned with hardware hashes, it is desirable to use the traditional lookup tables for loopback or encapsulated traffic rather than take the expense of hardware hashes that are hard to implement efficiently in software (such as RSS Toeplitz). Connection group support is enabled by compiling "options PCBGROUP" into your kernel configuration; for the time being, this is an experimental feature, and hence is not enabled by default. Subject to the limited MFCability of change dependencies in inpcb, and its change to the inpcbinfo init function signature, this change in principle could be merged to FreeBSD 8.x. Reviewed by: bz Sponsored by: Juniper Networks, Inc.
2011-06-06 12:55:02 +00:00
break;
case IPI_HASHFIELDS_2TUPLE:
Several years after initial development, merge prototype support for 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)
2014-03-15 00:57:50 +00:00
#ifdef RSS
hash = rss_hash_ip6_2tuple(faddrp, laddrp);
Several years after initial development, merge prototype support for 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)
2014-03-15 00:57:50 +00:00
#else
Implement a CPU-affine TCP and UDP connection lookup data structure, struct inpcbgroup. pcbgroups, or "connection groups", supplement the existing inpcbinfo connection hash table, which when pcbgroups are enabled, might now be thought of more usefully as a per-protocol 4-tuple reservation table. Connections are assigned to connection groups base on a hash of their 4-tuple; wildcard sockets require special handling, and are members of all connection groups. During a connection lookup, a per-connection group lock is employed rather than the global pcbinfo lock. By aligning connection groups with input path processing, connection groups take on an effective CPU affinity, especially when aligned with RSS work placement (see a forthcoming commit for details). This eliminates cache line migration associated with global, protocol-layer data structures in steady state TCP and UDP processing (with the exception of protocol-layer statistics; further commit to follow). Elements of this approach were inspired by Willman, Rixner, and Cox's 2006 USENIX paper, "An Evaluation of Network Stack Parallelization Strategies in Modern Operating Systems". However, there are also significant differences: we maintain the inpcb lock, rather than using the connection group lock for per-connection state. Likewise, the focus of this implementation is alignment with NIC packet distribution strategies such as RSS, rather than pure software strategies. Despite that focus, software distribution is supported through the parallel netisr implementation, and works well in configurations where the number of hardware threads is greater than the number of NIC input queues, such as in the RMI XLR threaded MIPS architecture. Another important difference is the continued maintenance of existing hash tables as "reservation tables" -- these are useful both to distinguish the resource allocation aspect of protocol name management and the more common-case lookup aspect. In configurations where connection tables are aligned with hardware hashes, it is desirable to use the traditional lookup tables for loopback or encapsulated traffic rather than take the expense of hardware hashes that are hard to implement efficiently in software (such as RSS Toeplitz). Connection group support is enabled by compiling "options PCBGROUP" into your kernel configuration; for the time being, this is an experimental feature, and hence is not enabled by default. Subject to the limited MFCability of change dependencies in inpcb, and its change to the inpcbinfo init function signature, this change in principle could be merged to FreeBSD 8.x. Reviewed by: bz Sponsored by: Juniper Networks, Inc.
2011-06-06 12:55:02 +00:00
hash = faddrp->s6_addr32[3] ^ laddrp->s6_addr32[3];
Several years after initial development, merge prototype support for 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)
2014-03-15 00:57:50 +00:00
#endif
Implement a CPU-affine TCP and UDP connection lookup data structure, struct inpcbgroup. pcbgroups, or "connection groups", supplement the existing inpcbinfo connection hash table, which when pcbgroups are enabled, might now be thought of more usefully as a per-protocol 4-tuple reservation table. Connections are assigned to connection groups base on a hash of their 4-tuple; wildcard sockets require special handling, and are members of all connection groups. During a connection lookup, a per-connection group lock is employed rather than the global pcbinfo lock. By aligning connection groups with input path processing, connection groups take on an effective CPU affinity, especially when aligned with RSS work placement (see a forthcoming commit for details). This eliminates cache line migration associated with global, protocol-layer data structures in steady state TCP and UDP processing (with the exception of protocol-layer statistics; further commit to follow). Elements of this approach were inspired by Willman, Rixner, and Cox's 2006 USENIX paper, "An Evaluation of Network Stack Parallelization Strategies in Modern Operating Systems". However, there are also significant differences: we maintain the inpcb lock, rather than using the connection group lock for per-connection state. Likewise, the focus of this implementation is alignment with NIC packet distribution strategies such as RSS, rather than pure software strategies. Despite that focus, software distribution is supported through the parallel netisr implementation, and works well in configurations where the number of hardware threads is greater than the number of NIC input queues, such as in the RMI XLR threaded MIPS architecture. Another important difference is the continued maintenance of existing hash tables as "reservation tables" -- these are useful both to distinguish the resource allocation aspect of protocol name management and the more common-case lookup aspect. In configurations where connection tables are aligned with hardware hashes, it is desirable to use the traditional lookup tables for loopback or encapsulated traffic rather than take the expense of hardware hashes that are hard to implement efficiently in software (such as RSS Toeplitz). Connection group support is enabled by compiling "options PCBGROUP" into your kernel configuration; for the time being, this is an experimental feature, and hence is not enabled by default. Subject to the limited MFCability of change dependencies in inpcb, and its change to the inpcbinfo init function signature, this change in principle could be merged to FreeBSD 8.x. Reviewed by: bz Sponsored by: Juniper Networks, Inc.
2011-06-06 12:55:02 +00:00
break;
default:
hash = 0;
}
return (&pcbinfo->ipi_pcbgroups[in6_pcbgroup_getbucket(pcbinfo,
hash)]);
}
struct inpcbgroup *
in6_pcbgroup_byinpcb(struct inpcb *inp)
{
#ifdef RSS
/*
* Listen sockets with INP_RSS_BUCKET_SET set have a pre-determined
* RSS bucket and thus we should use this pcbgroup, rather than
* using a tuple or hash.
*
* XXX should verify that there's actually pcbgroups and inp_rss_listen_bucket
* fits in that!
*/
if (inp->inp_flags2 & INP_RSS_BUCKET_SET)
return (&inp->inp_pcbinfo->ipi_pcbgroups[inp->inp_rss_listen_bucket]);
#endif
Implement a CPU-affine TCP and UDP connection lookup data structure, struct inpcbgroup. pcbgroups, or "connection groups", supplement the existing inpcbinfo connection hash table, which when pcbgroups are enabled, might now be thought of more usefully as a per-protocol 4-tuple reservation table. Connections are assigned to connection groups base on a hash of their 4-tuple; wildcard sockets require special handling, and are members of all connection groups. During a connection lookup, a per-connection group lock is employed rather than the global pcbinfo lock. By aligning connection groups with input path processing, connection groups take on an effective CPU affinity, especially when aligned with RSS work placement (see a forthcoming commit for details). This eliminates cache line migration associated with global, protocol-layer data structures in steady state TCP and UDP processing (with the exception of protocol-layer statistics; further commit to follow). Elements of this approach were inspired by Willman, Rixner, and Cox's 2006 USENIX paper, "An Evaluation of Network Stack Parallelization Strategies in Modern Operating Systems". However, there are also significant differences: we maintain the inpcb lock, rather than using the connection group lock for per-connection state. Likewise, the focus of this implementation is alignment with NIC packet distribution strategies such as RSS, rather than pure software strategies. Despite that focus, software distribution is supported through the parallel netisr implementation, and works well in configurations where the number of hardware threads is greater than the number of NIC input queues, such as in the RMI XLR threaded MIPS architecture. Another important difference is the continued maintenance of existing hash tables as "reservation tables" -- these are useful both to distinguish the resource allocation aspect of protocol name management and the more common-case lookup aspect. In configurations where connection tables are aligned with hardware hashes, it is desirable to use the traditional lookup tables for loopback or encapsulated traffic rather than take the expense of hardware hashes that are hard to implement efficiently in software (such as RSS Toeplitz). Connection group support is enabled by compiling "options PCBGROUP" into your kernel configuration; for the time being, this is an experimental feature, and hence is not enabled by default. Subject to the limited MFCability of change dependencies in inpcb, and its change to the inpcbinfo init function signature, this change in principle could be merged to FreeBSD 8.x. Reviewed by: bz Sponsored by: Juniper Networks, Inc.
2011-06-06 12:55:02 +00:00
return (in6_pcbgroup_bytuple(inp->inp_pcbinfo, &inp->in6p_laddr,
inp->inp_lport, &inp->in6p_faddr, inp->inp_fport));
}