up to now.
The new sendfile is the code that Netflix uses to send their multiple tens
of gigabits of data per second. The new implementation features asynchronous
I/O, when I/O operations are launched, but not awaited to be complete. An
explanation of why such behavior is beneficial compared to old one is
going to be too long for a commit message, so we will skip it here.
Additional features of new syscall are extra flags, which provide an
application more control over data sent. The SF_NOCACHE flag tells
kernel that data shouldn't be cached after it was sent. The SF_READAHEAD()
macro allows to specify readahead size in pages.
The new syscalls is a drop in replacement. No modifications are required
to applications. One can take nginx binary for stable/10 and run it
successfully on head. Although SF_NODISKIO lost its original sense, as now
sendfile doesn't block, and now means something completely different (tm),
using the new sendfile the old way is absolutely safe.
Celebrates: Netflix global launch!
Sponsored by: Nginx, Inc.
Sponsored by: Netflix
Relnotes: yes
packets and/or state transitions from each TCP socket. That would help with
narrowing down certain problems we see in the field that are hard to reproduce
without understanding the history of how we got into a certain state. This
change provides just that.
It saves copies of the last N packets in a list in the tcpcb. When the tcpcb is
destroyed, the list is freed. I thought this was likely to be more
performance-friendly than saving copies of the tcpcb. Plus, with the packets,
you should be able to reverse-engineer what happened to the tcpcb.
To enable the feature, you will need to compile a kernel with the TCPPCAP
option. Even then, the feature defaults to being deactivated. You can activate
it by setting a positive value for the number of captured packets. You can do
that on either a global basis or on a per-socket basis (via a setsockopt call).
There is no way to get the packets out of the kernel other than using kmem or
getting a coredump. I thought that would help some of the legal/privacy concerns
regarding such a feature. However, it should be possible to add a future effort
to export them in PCAP format.
I tested this at low scale, and found that there were no mbuf leaks and the peak
mbuf usage appeared to be unchanged with and without the feature.
The main performance concern I can envision is the number of mbufs that would be
used on systems with a large number of sockets. If you save five packets per
direction per socket and have 3,000 sockets, that will consume at least 30,000
mbufs just to keep these packets. I tried to reduce the concerns associated with
this by limiting the number of clusters (not mbufs) that could be used for this
feature. Again, in my testing, that appears to work correctly.
Differential Revision: D3100
Submitted by: Jonathan Looney <jlooney at juniper dot net>
Reviewed by: gnn, hiren
mbuf. Unlike in the pre-r248371 code, assert that M_PKTHDR is set
only on a first mbuf.
Reported & tested by: Andriy Voskoboinyk <s3erios gmail.com>
Sponsored by: Nginx, Inc.
m_dup_pkthdr(), that uses M_COPYFLAGS mask to copy m_flags field.
If original mbuf chain has M_RDONLY flag, its copy also will have it.
Reset this flag explicitly.
MFC after: 2 weeks
instead of preprocessor macros.
This will make debugger output of 'print *m' exactly match the names
we use in code, making life of a kernel hacker way more pleasant. And
this also allows to rename struct_m_ext back to m_ext.
STAILQs and SLISTs using the same structure field as good old m_next
and m_nextpkt linkage occupy.
New code is encouraged to use queue(3) macros, instead of implementing
the wheel. However, better not to have a mixture of old style and
queue(3) in one file or subsystem.
Reviewed by: rwatson, rrs, rpaulo
Differential Revision: D1499
more generally make it easier to extend 'struct mbuf in the future', make
a number of changes to the data structure:
- As we anticipate embedding mbufs headers within variable-size regions of
memory in the future, change the definitions of byte arrays embedded in
mbufs to be of size [0] rather than [MLEN] and [MHLEN]. In fact, the
cxgbe driver already uses 'struct mbuf' on the front of other storage
sizes, but we would like the global mbuf allocator do be able to do this
as well.
- Fold 'struct m_hdr' into 'struct mbuf' itself, eliminating a set of
macros that aliased 'mh_foo' field names to 'm_foo' names such as
'm_next'. These present a particular problem as we would like to add
new mbuf-header fields -- e.g., 'm_size' -- that, if similarly named via
macros, would introduce collisions with many other variable names in the
kernel.
- Rename 'struct m_ext' to 'struct struct_m_ext' so that we can add
compile-time assertions without bumping into the still-extant 'm_ext'
macro.
- Remove the MSIZE compile-time assertion for 'struct mbuf', but add new
assertions for alignment of embedded data arrays (64-bit alignment even
on 32-bit platforms), and for the sizes the mbuf header, packet header,
and m_ext structure.
- Document that these assertions exist in comments in mbuf.h.
This change is not intended to cause (non-trivial) behavioural
differences, but is a precursor to further mbuf-allocator work.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D1483
Reviewed by: bz, gnn, np, glebius ("go ahead, I trust you")
Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon Storage Division
in FreeBSD 7 that has not been used since. It contains a number
of unresolved bugs including an inverted bcopy() and incorrect
handling of read-only mbufs using internal storage. Removing this
unused code is substantially essier than fixing it in order to
update it to the coming mbuf world order -- but it can always be
restored from revision history if it turns out to prove useful for
future work.
Pointed out by: jmallett
Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon Storage Division
with calls to the centralised macros, reducing direct use of MLEN and
MHLEN.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D1444
Reviewed by: bz
Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon Storage Division
the knowledge of mbuf layout, and in particular constants such as M_EXT,
MLEN, MHLEN, and so on, in mbuf consumers by unifying various alignment
utility functions (M_ALIGN(), MH_ALIGN(), MEXT_ALIGN() in a single
M_ALIGN() macro, implemented by a now-inlined m_align() function:
- Move m_align() from uipc_mbuf.c to mbuf.h; mark as __inline.
- Reimplement M_ALIGN(), MH_ALIGN(), and MEXT_ALIGN() using m_align().
- Update consumers around the tree to simply use M_ALIGN().
This change eliminates a number of cases where mbuf consumers must be aware
of whether or not mbufs returned by the allocator use external storage, but
also assumptions about the size of the returned mbuf. This will make it
easier to introduce changes in how we use external storage, as well as
features such as variable-size mbufs.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D1436
Reviewed by: glebius, trasz, gnn, bz
Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon Storage Division
sending not ready data:
o Add new flag to pru_send() flags - PRUS_NOTREADY.
o Add new protocol method pru_ready().
Sponsored by: Nginx, Inc.
Sponsored by: Netflix
o Do not use UMA refcount zone. The problem with this zone is that
several refcounting words (16 on amd64) share the same cache line,
and issueing atomic(9) updates on them creates cache line contention.
Also, allocating and freeing them is extra CPU cycles.
Instead, refcount the page directly via vm_page_wire() and the sfbuf
via sf_buf_alloc(sf_buf_page(sf)) [1].
o Call refcounting/freeing function for EXT_SFBUF via direct function
call, instead of function pointer. This removes barrier for CPU
branch predictor.
o Do not cleanup the mbuf to be freed in mb_free_ext(), merely to
satisfy assertion in mb_dtor_mbuf(). Remove the assertion from
mb_dtor_mbuf(). Use bcopy() instead of manual assignments to
copy m_ext in mb_dupcl().
[1] This has some problems for now. Using sf_buf_alloc() merely to
increase refcount is expensive, and is broken on sparc64. To be
fixed.
Sponsored by: Netflix
Sponsored by: Nginx, Inc.
problems with the way MLEN, MHLEN, and struct mbuf are set up.
CTASSERT's are provided to detect such issues at compile time in the
future.
The #define MLEN and MHLEN calculation do not take actual compiler-
induced alignment and padding inside the complete struct mbuf into
account. Accordingly appropriate attention is required when changing
members of struct mbuf.
Ideally one would calculate MLEN as (MSIZE - sizeof(((struct mbuf *)0)->m_hdr)
but that doesn't work as the compiler refuses to operate on an as of
yet incomplete structure.
In particular ARM 32bit has more strict alignment requirements which
caused 4 bytes of padding between m_hdr and pkthdr in struct mbuf
because of the 64bit members in pkthdr. This wasn't picked up by MLEN
and MHLEN causing an overflow of the mbuf provided data storage by
overestimating its size.
I386 didn't show this problem because it handles unaligned access just
fine, albeit at a small performance penalty.
On 64bit architectures the struct mbuf layout is 64bit aligned in all
places.
Reported by: Thomas Skibo <ThomasSkibo-at-sbcglobal-dot-net>
Tested by: tuexen, ian, Thomas Skibo (extended patch)
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
external mbuf buffer management capabilities in the future.
For now only EXT_FREE_OK is defined with current legacy behavior.
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
features. The changes in particular are:
o Remove rarely used "header" pointer and replace it with a 64bit protocol/
layer specific union PH_loc for local use. Protocols can flexibly overlay
their own 8 to 64 bit fields to store information while the packet is
worked on.
o Mechanically convert IP reassembly, IGMP/MLD and ATM to use pkthdr.PH_loc
instead of pkthdr.header.
o Extend csum_flags to 64bits to allow for additional future offload
information to be carried (e.g. iSCSI, IPsec offload, and others).
o Move the RSS hash type enumerator from abusing m_flags to its own 8bit
rsstype field. Adjust accessor macros.
o Add cosqos field to store Class of Service / Quality of Service information
with the packet. It is not yet supported in any drivers but allows us to
get on par with Cisco/Juniper in routing applications (plus MPLS QoS) with
a modernized ALTQ.
o Add four 8 bit fields l[2-5]hlen to store the relative header offsets
from the start of the packet. This is important for various offload
capabilities and to relieve the drivers from having to parse the packet
and protocol headers to find out location of checksums and other
information. Header parsing in drivers is a lot of copy-paste and
unhandled corner cases which we want to avoid.
o Add another flexible 64bit union to map various additional persistent
packet information, like ether_vtag, tso_segsz and csum fields.
Depending on the csum_flags settings some fields may have different usage
making it very flexible and adaptable to future capabilities.
o Restructure the CSUM flags to better signify their outbound (down the
stack) and inbound (up the stack) use. The CSUM flags used to be a bit
chaotic and rather poorly documented leading to incorrect use in many
places. Bring clarity into their use through better naming.
Compatibility mappings are provided to preserve the API. The drivers
can be corrected one by one and MFC'd without issue.
o The size of pkthdr stays the same at 48/56bytes (32/64bit architectures).
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
free function access to the mbuf the external memory was attached
to.
Mechanically adjust all users to include the mbuf parameter.
This fixes a long standing annoyance for external free functions.
Before one had to sacrifice one of the argument pointers for this.
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
to 8 bits. ext_type is an enumerator and the number of types we
have is a mere dozen.
A couple of ext_types are renumbered to fit within 8 bits.
EXT_VENDOR[1-4] and EXT_EXP[1-4] types for vendor-internal and
experimental local mapping.
The ext_flags field is currently unused but has a couple of flags
already defined for future use. Again vendor and experimental
flags are provided for local mapping.
EXT_FLAG_BITS is provided for the printf(9) %b identifier.
Initialize and copy ext_flags in the relevant mbuf functions.
Improve alignment and packing of struct m_ext on 32 and 64 archs
by carefully sorting the fields.
for a very long time, if ever.
Should such a functionality ever be needed again the appropriate and
much better way to do it is through a custom EXT_SOMETHING external mbuf
type together with a dedicated *ext_free function.
Discussed with: trociny, glebius
Now that r253351 moved sendfile() stats to a separate struct, the
last field used in mbstat is m_mcfail, which is updated, but never
read or obtained from userland.
will not smash the M_EXT and data pointer, so it is safe to
pass an mbuf with external storage procuded by m_getcl() to
m_move_pkthdr().
Reviewed by: andre
Sponsored by: Nginx, Inc.
and that can drive someone crazy. While m_get2() is young and not
documented yet, change its order of arguments to match m_getm2().
Sorry for churn, but better now than later.
- Make it return int, not void.
- Add wait parameter.
- Update MEXTADD() macro appropriately, defaults to M_NOWAIT, as
before this change.
Sponsored by: Nginx, Inc.
mbuf's by doing proper testing with M_WRITABLE().
In m_collapse() replace an incomplete manual check for M_RDONLY
with the M_WRITABLE() macro that also tests for shared buffers
and other cases that make a particular mbuf immutable.
MFC after: 2 weeks
Add the sysctl debug.iosize_max_clamp, enabled by default. Setting the
sysctl to zero allows to perform the SSIZE_MAX-sized i/o requests from
the usermode.
Discussed with: bde, das (previous versions)
MFC after: 1 month
share/man/man4/Makefile,
share/man/man4/xnb.4,
sys/dev/xen/netback/netback.c,
sys/dev/xen/netback/netback_unit_tests.c:
Rewrote the netback driver for xen to attach properly via newbus
and work properly in both HVM and PVM mode (only HVM is tested).
Works with the in-tree FreeBSD netfront driver or the Windows
netfront driver from SuSE. Has not been extensively tested with
a Linux netfront driver. Does not implement LRO, TSO, or
polling. Includes unit tests that may be run through sysctl
after compiling with XNB_DEBUG defined.
sys/dev/xen/blkback/blkback.c,
sys/xen/interface/io/netif.h:
Comment elaboration.
sys/kern/uipc_mbuf.c:
Fix page fault in kernel mode when calling m_print() on a
null mbuf. Since m_print() is only used for debugging, there
are no performance concerns for extra error checking code.
sys/kern/subr_scanf.c:
Add the "hh" and "ll" width specifiers from C99 to scanf().
A few callers were already using "ll" even though scanf()
was handling it as "l".
Submitted by: Alan Somers <alans@spectralogic.com>
Submitted by: John Suykerbuyk <johns@spectralogic.com>
Sponsored by: Spectra Logic
MFC after: 1 week
Reviewed by: ken
