And refactor the code to avoid unneeded initialization to reduce overhead
of per-packet processing.
ipfw(4) can be invoked by pfil(9) framework for each packet several times.
Each call uses on-stack variable of type struct ip_fw_args to keep the
state of ipfw(4) processing. Currently this variable has 240 bytes size
on amd64. Each time ipfw(4) does bzero() on it, and then it initializes
some fields.
glebius@ has reported that they at Netflix discovered, that initialization
of this variable produces significant overhead on packet processing.
After patching I managed to increase performance of packet processing on
simple routing with ipfw(4) firewalling to about 11% from 9.8Mpps up to
11Mpps (Xeon E5-2660 v4@ + Mellanox 100G card).
Introduced new field flags, it is used to keep track of what fields was
initialized. Some fields were moved into the anonymous union, to reduce
the size. They all are mutually exclusive. dummypar field was unused, and
therefore it is removed. The hopstore6 field type was changed from
sockaddr_in6 to a bit smaller struct ip_fw_nh6. And now the size of struct
ip_fw_args is 128 bytes.
ipfw_chk() was modified to properly handle ip_fw_args.flags instead of
rely on checking for NULL pointers.
Reviewed by: gallatin
Obtained from: Yandex LLC
MFC after: 1 month
Sponsored by: Yandex LLC
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D18690
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