aspect of time stamp configuration per interface rather than per BPF
descriptor. Prior to this, the order in which BPF devices were opened and the
per descriptor time stamp configuration settings could cause non-deterministic
and unintended behaviour with respect to time stamping. With the new scheme, a
BPF attached interface's tscfg sysctl entry can be set to "default", "none",
"fast", "normal" or "external". Setting "default" means use the system default
option (set with the net.bpf.tscfg.default sysctl), "none" means do not
generate time stamps for tapped packets, "fast" means generate time stamps for
tapped packets using a hz granularity system clock read, "normal" means
generate time stamps for tapped packets using a full timecounter granularity
system clock read and "external" (currently unimplemented) means use the time
stamp provided with the packet from an underlying source.
- Utilise the recently introduced sysclock_getsnapshot() and
sysclock_snap2bintime() KPIs to ensure the system clock is only read once per
packet, regardless of the number of BPF descriptors and time stamp formats
requested. Use the per BPF attached interface time stamp configuration to
control if sysclock_getsnapshot() is called and whether the system clock read
is fast or normal. The per BPF descriptor time stamp configuration is then
used to control how the system clock snapshot is converted to a bintime by
sysclock_snap2bintime().
- Remove all FAST related BPF descriptor flag variants. Performing a "fast"
read of the system clock is now controlled per BPF attached interface using
the net.bpf.tscfg sysctl tree.
- Update the bpf.4 man page.
Committed on behalf of Julien Ridoux and Darryl Veitch from the University of
Melbourne, Australia, as part of the FreeBSD Foundation funded "Feed-Forward
Clock Synchronization Algorithms" project.
For more information, see http://www.synclab.org/radclock/
In collaboration with: Julien Ridoux (jridoux at unimelb edu au)
While I'm here update if_oerrors if parent interface of vlan is not
up and running. Previously it updated collision counter and it was
confusing to interprete it.
PR: kern/163478
Reviewed by: glebius, jhb
Tested by: Joe Holden < lists <> rewt dot org dot uk >
7.x, 8.x and 9.x with pf(4) imports: pfsync(4) should suppress CARP
preemption, while it is running its bulk update.
However, reimplement the feature in more elegant manner, that is
partially inspired by newer OpenBSD:
- Rename term "suppression" to "demotion", to match with OpenBSD.
- Keep a global demotion factor, that can be raised by several
conditions, for now these are:
- interface goes down
- carp(4) has problems with ip_output() or ip6_output()
- pfsync performs bulk update
- Unlike in OpenBSD the demotion factor isn't a counter, but
is actual value added to advskew. The adjustment values for
particular error conditions are also configurable, and their
defaults are maximum advskew value, so a single failure bumps
demotion to maximum. This is for POLA compatibility, and should
satisfy most users.
- Demotion factor is a writable sysctl, so user can do
foot shooting, if he desires to.
from scratch, copying needed functionality from the old implemenation
on demand, with a thorough review of all code. The main change is that
interface layer has been removed from the CARP. Now redundant addresses
are configured exactly on the interfaces, they run on.
The CARP configuration itself is, as before, configured and read via
SIOCSVH/SIOCGVH ioctls. A new prefix created with SIOCAIFADDR or
SIOCAIFADDR_IN6 may now be configured to a particular virtual host id,
which makes the prefix redundant.
ifconfig(8) semantics has been changed too: now one doesn't need
to clone carpXX interface, he/she should directly configure a vhid
on a Ethernet interface.
To supply vhid data from the kernel to an application the getifaddrs(8)
function had been changed to pass ifam_data with each address. [1]
The new implementation definitely closes all PRs related to carp(4)
being an interface, and may close several others. It also allows
to run a single redundant IP per interface.
Big thanks to Bjoern Zeeb for his help with inet6 part of patch, for
idea on using ifam_data and for several rounds of reviewing!
PR: kern/117000, kern/126945, kern/126714, kern/120130, kern/117448
Reviewed by: bz
Submitted by: bz [1]
A link reset now is completely transparent for the netmap client:
even if the NIC resets its own ring (e.g. restarting from 0),
the client will not see any change in the current rx/tx positions,
because the driver will keep track of the offset between the two.
2. make the device-specific code more uniform across different drivers
There were some inconsistencies in the implementation of the netmap
support routines, now drivers have been aligned to a common
code structure.
3. import netmap support for ixgbe . This is implemented as a very
small patch for ixgbe.c (233 lines, 11 chunks, mostly comments:
in total the patch has only 54 lines of new code) , as most of
the code is in an external file sys/dev/netmap/ixgbe_netmap.h ,
following some initial comments from Jack Vogel about making
changes less intrusive.
(Note, i have emailed Jack multiple times asking if he had
comments on this structure of the code; i got no reply so
i assume he is fine with it).
Support for other drivers (em, lem, re, igb) will come later.
"ixgbe" is now the reference driver for netmap support. Both the
external file (sys/dev/netmap/ixgbe_netmap.h) and the device-specific
patches (in sys/dev/ixgbe/ixgbe.c) are heavily commented and should
serve as a reference for other device drivers.
Tested on i386 and amd64 with the pkt-gen program in tools/tools/netmap,
the sender does 14.88 Mpps at 1050 Mhz and 14.2 Mpps at 900 MHz
on an i7-860 with 4 cores and 82599 card. Haven't tried yet more
aggressive optimizations such as adding 'prefetch' instructions
in the time-critical parts of the code.
parent interface. This avoids the overhead of queueing a packet to an IFQ
only to immediately dequeue it again.
Suggested by: np
Reviewed by: brooks
MFC after: 1 month
of hand-made.
- When registering new cloner, check whether a cloner with
same name already exist.
- When allocating unit, also check with help of ifunit()
whether such interface already exist or not. [1]
PR: kern/162789 [1]
contain both a regular timestamp obtained from the system clock and the
current feed-forward ffcounter value. This enables new possibilities including
comparison of timekeeping performance and timestamp correction during post
processing.
- Add the net.bpf.ffclock_tstamp sysctl to provide a choice between timestamping
packets using the feedback or feed-forward system clock.
Committed on behalf of Julien Ridoux and Darryl Veitch from the University of
Melbourne, Australia, as part of the FreeBSD Foundation funded "Feed-Forward
Clock Synchronization Algorithms" project.
For more information, see http://www.synclab.org/radclock/
Submitted by: Julien Ridoux (jridoux at unimelb edu au)
I/O from userspace, capable of line rate at 10G, see
http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/netmap/
At this time I am bringing in only the generic code (sys/dev/netmap/
plus two headers under sys/net/), and some sample applications in
tools/tools/netmap. There is also a manpage in share/man/man4 [1]
In order to make use of the framework you need to build a kernel
with "device netmap", and patch individual drivers with the code
that you can find in
sys/dev/netmap/head.diff
The file will go away as the relevant pieces are committed to
the various device drivers, which should happen in a few days
after talking to the driver maintainers.
Netmap support is available at the moment for Intel 10G and 1G
cards (ixgbe, em/lem/igb), and for the Realtek 1G card ("re").
I have partial patches for "bge" and am starting to work on "cxgbe".
Hopefully changes are trivial enough so interested third parties
can submit their patches. Interested people can contact me
for advice on how to add netmap support to specific devices.
CREDITS:
Netmap has been developed by Luigi Rizzo and other collaborators
at the Universita` di Pisa, and supported by EU project CHANGE
(http://www.change-project.eu/)
The code is distributed under a BSD Copyright.
[1] In my opinion is a bad idea to have all manpage in one directory.
We should place kernel documentation in the same dir that contains
the code, which would make it much simpler to keep doc and code
in sync, reduce the clutter in share/man/ and incidentally is
the policy used for all of userspace code.
Makefiles and doc tools can be trivially adjusted to find the
manpages in the relevant subdirs.
if_alloctype was used to store the origional interface type. Take
advantage of this change by removing all existing uses of if_free_type()
in favor of if_free().
MFC after: 1 Month
The SYSCTL_NODE macro defines a list that stores all child-elements of
that node. If there's no SYSCTL_DECL macro anywhere else, there's no
reason why it shouldn't be static.
masked out when adding a prefix route through the "route" command.
However, when deleting the route, simply changing the command keyword
from "add" to "delete" does not work. The failoure is observed in
both IPv4 and IPv6 route insertion. The patch makes the route command
behavior consistent between the "add" and the "delete" operation.
MFC after: 1 week
According to POSIX, these two header files should be able to be included
by themselves, not depending on other headers. The <net/if.h> header
uses struct sockaddr when __BSD_VISIBLE=1, while <netinet/tcp.h> uses
integer datatypes (u_int32_t, u_short, etc).
MFC after: 2 months
It seems the D_PSEUDO flag was meant to allow make_dev() to return NULL.
Nowadays we have a different interface for that; make_dev_p(). There's
no need to keep it there.
While there, remove an unneeded D_NEEDMINOR from the gpio driver.
Discussed with: gonzo@ (gpio)
rtsock allowing routing daemons to filter routing updates on an
rtsock per FIB.
Adjust raw_input() and split it into wrapper and a new function
taking an optional callback argument even though we only have one
consumer [1] to keep the hackish flags local to rtsock.c.
PR: kern/134931
Submitted by: multiple (see PR)
Suggested by: rwatson [1]
Reviewed by: rwatson
MFC after: 3 days
patch modifies makesyscalls.sh to prefix all of the non-compatibility
calls (e.g. not linux_, freebsd32_) with sys_ and updates the kernel
entry points and all places in the code that use them. It also
fixes an additional name space collision between the kernel function
psignal and the libc function of the same name by renaming the kernel
psignal kern_psignal(). By introducing this change now we will ease future
MFCs that change syscalls.
Reviewed by: rwatson
Approved by: re (bz)
hostid, this gives a good chance of keeping the same address over
reboots. This is intended to help IPV6 and similar which generate
their addresses from the mac.
PR: kern/160300
Submitted by: mdodd
Approved by: re (kib)
If a selinfo object is recorded (via selrecord()) and then it is
quickly destroyed, with the waiters missing the opportunity to awake,
at the next iteration they will find the selinfo object destroyed,
causing a PF#.
That happens because the selinfo interface has no way to drain the
waiters before to destroy the registered selinfo object. Also this
race is quite rare to get in practice, because it would require a
selrecord(), a poll request by another thread and a quick destruction
of the selrecord()'ed selinfo object.
Fix this by adding the seldrain() routine which should be called
before to destroy the selinfo objects (in order to avoid such case),
and fix the present cases where it might have already been called.
Sometimes, the context is safe enough to prevent this type of race,
like it happens in device drivers which installs selinfo objects on
poll callbacks. There, the destruction of the selinfo object happens
at driver detach time, when all the filedescriptors should be already
closed, thus there cannot be a race.
For this case, mfi(4) device driver can be set as an example, as it
implements a full correct logic for preventing this from happening.
Sponsored by: Sandvine Incorporated
Reported by: rstone
Tested by: pluknet
Reviewed by: jhb, kib
Approved by: re (bz)
MFC after: 3 weeks
to find the first route node of an ECMP chain before executing the route
command. If the system has a default route, and the specific route argument
to the command does not exist in the routing table, then the default route
would be reached. The current code does not verify the reached node matches
the given route argument, therefore erroneous removed the entry. This patch
fixes that bug.
Approved by: re
MFC after: 3 days
initialized by flags (function argument) or-ed with ifa->ifa_flags.
If both NIC has a loopback route to itself, so IFA_RTSELF is set on ifa(s).
As IFA_RTSELF is defined by RTF_HOST, rtrequest1_fib() is called with
RTF_HOST flag even if netmask is not NULL. Consequently, netmask is set
to zero in rtrequest1_fib(), and request to add network route is changed
under hands to request to add host route.
Tested by: Andrew Boyer <aboyer at averesystems.com>
Submitted by: Svatopluk Kraus <onwahe at gmail dot com>
Approved by: re (hrs)
- TCP keep* timers
- TCP UTO (adjust from what was there already)
- netmap
- route caching
- user cookie (temporary to allow for the real fix)
Slightly re-shuffle struct ifnet moving fields out of the middle
of spares and to better align.
Discussed with: rwatson (slightly earlier version)
same as the host address. This already works fine for INET6 and ND6.
While here, remove two function pointers from struct lltable which are
only initialized but never used.
MFC after: 3 days
setting (either default or if supported as set by SIOCSIFFIB, e.g.
from ifconfig).
Submitted by: Alexander V. Chernikov (melifaro ipfw.ru)
Reviewed by: julian
MFC after: 2 weeks
to be assigned to a non-default FIB instance.
You may need to recompile world or ports due to the change of struct ifnet.
Submitted by: cjsp
Submitted by: Alexander V. Chernikov (melifaro ipfw.ru)
(original versions)
Reviewed by: julian
Reviewed by: Alexander V. Chernikov (melifaro ipfw.ru)
MFC after: 2 weeks
X-MFC: use spare in struct ifnet
(i.e. under COMPAT_FREEBSD32) in case ifconf() returned success to match
the native SIOCGIFCONF behavior.
PR: kern/158369
Reported by: Paul Procacci <pprocacci att gmail com>
MFC after: 1 week
On MP systems this is not a usable solution anymore and could easily
lead to false positives triggering enough logging that even using
the console was no longer usable (multiple parallel ping -f can do).
Switch to the suggested solution of using mbuf tags to carry per
packet state between gre_output() invocations. Contrary to the
proposed solution modelled after gif(4) only allocate one mbuf tag
per packet rather than per packet and per gre_output() pass through.
As the sysctl to control the possible valid (gre in gre) nestings does
no sanity checks, make sure to always allocate space in the mbuf tag
for at least one, and at most 255 possible gre interfaces to detect
loops in addition to the counter.
Submitted by: Cristian KLEIN (cristi net.utcluj.ro) (original version)
PR: kern/114714
Reviewed by: Cristian KLEIN (cristi net.utcluj.ro)
Reviewed bu: Wooseog Choi (ben_choi hotmail.com)
Sponsored by: Sandvine Incorporated
MFC after: 1 week
Document the fact that we might want an IFCAP_CANTCHANGE mask,
even though the value is not yet used in sys/net/if.c
(asked on -current a week ago, no feedback so i assume no objection).
due to m_uiotombuf() failing.
While here, trim unneeded error handling related to tuninit() since it
can never fail.
Submitted by: Martin Birgmeier la5lbtyi aon at
Reviewed by: glebius
MFC after: 1 week
default dispatch method to NETISR_DISPATCH_DIRECT in order to force
direct dispatch. This adds a fairly negligble overhead without
changing default behavior, but in the future will allow deferred or
hybrid dispatch to other worker threads before link layer processing
has taken place.
For example, this could allow redistribution using RSS hashes
without ethernet header cache line hits, if the NIC was unable to
adequately implement load balancing to too small a number of input
queues -- perhaps due to hard queueset counts of 1, 3, or 8, but in
a modern system with 16-128 threads. This can happen on highly
threaded systems, where you want want an ithread per core,
redistributing work to other queues, but also on virtualised systems
where hardware hashing is (or is not) available, but only a single
queue has been directed to one VCPU on a VM.
Note: this adds a previously non-present assertion about the
equivalence of the ifnet from which the packet is received, and the
ifnet stamped in the mbuf header. I believe this assertion to
generally be true, but we'll find out soon -- if it's not, we might
have to add additional overhead in some cases to add an m_tag with
the originating ifnet pointer stored in it.
Reviewed by: bz
MFC after: 3 weeks
Sponsored by: Juniper Networks, Inc.
be brought up in the order they are enumerated in the device tree (in
particular, that thread 0 on each core be brought up first). The SLIST
through which we loop to start the CPUs has all of its entries added with
SLIST_INSERT_HEAD(), which means it is in reverse order of enumeration
and so AP startup would always fail in such situations (causing a machine
check or RTAS failure). Fix this by changing the SLIST into an STAILQ,
and inserting new CPUs at the end.
Reviewed by: jhb
be represented:
- A single policy namespace is defined, consisting of four possible
policies: "default" to use the global default, "deferred" to force
deferred dispatch, "direct" to employ direct dispatch where possible, and
"hybrid" which makes a dynamic decision based on CPU affinity, ordering,
etc. Routines are implemented to convert between strings and an integer
namespace.
- A new global variable, netisr_dispatch_policy, subsumes existing global
variables for direct dispatch, forced direct dispatch, etc, and is used
for explicit policy interpretation and composition. Old variables remain
so that they can be exported by legacy sysctls for use by old netstat(1)
binaries. A new sysctl and tunable, netisr.dispatch.policy, accepts the
above strings for specifying a global policy default.
- The protocol registration structure, netisr_handler, grows an nh_dispatch
field, which accepts a per-policy policy override. The default value is
'0', which corresponds to "default", meaning that protocols will accept
the global default policy unless otherwise specified.
- Policies are now interpreted and composed explicitly at various points in
packet dispatch; protocol policies override global policies.
- Protocols grow the ability to express a non-opinion about affinity even
when implenting m2cpuid by returning NETISR_CPUID_NONE. In that case, the
framework falls back on source ordering, rather than simply using the
current CPU.
These changes are in support of allowing link layer re-dispatch based on
RSS or similar hashes provided by NICs, especially in the case where the
number of hardware receive queues matches hardware core count, rather than
hardware thread count, requiring further software redistributeon. (i.e.,
on RMI XLR).
MFC after: 3 weeks
Reviewed by: bz
Sponsored by: Juniper Networks, Inc.
