This includes the following:
- use separate memory regions for VALE ports
- locking fixes
- some simplifications in the NIC-specific routines
- performance improvements for the VALE switch
- some new features in the pkt-gen test program
- documentation updates
There are small API changes that require programs to be recompiled
(NETMAP_API has been bumped so you will detect old binaries at runtime).
In particular:
- struct netmap_slot now is 16 bytes to support an extra pointer,
which may save one data copy when using VALE ports or VMs;
- the struct netmap_if has two extra fields;
MFC after: 3 days
rather than just void *.
Then, as part of this, convert a couple of mbuf m->m_data accesses
to mtod(m, const void *).
Reviewed by: markm
Approved by: security-officer (delphij)
Sponsored by: Netflix, Inc.
and ordering related variables, fields and locks next to each
other. Add more comments to variables.
Over time 'ifnet' has accumlated a lot of additional pointers and
functionality in an unstructured way making it quite hard to read
and understand while obfuscating relationships between fields and
variables.
Quantify the structure size and how bloated it has become.
This is only a mechanical change in preparation for upcoming
work to make ifnet opaque to drivers and to separate out the
interface queuing.
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
from net/if_var to it own new net/ifq.h.
For now net/ifq.h is unconditionally included through net/if_var.h.
This is a mechanical change in preparation to make struct ifnet and
the individual interface queue mechanisms opaque.
Discussed with: glebius
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
from if.h.
- Remove unnecessary includes and declarations from if.h
- Remove unnecessary includes and declarations from if_var.h [1]
- Mark some declarations that are about to be removed in near
future with comments, explaning why this declaration is still
necessary.
- Protect eventhandler declarations with #ifdef SYS_EVENTHANDLER_H.
Obtained from: bdeBSD [1]
Sponsored by: Netflix
Sponsored by: Nginx, Inc.
bpf(4) and vlan(4) related event declarations to bpf.h and
if_vlan_var.h. To avoid dependency on eventhandler.h, protect
these declarations with ifdef SYS_EVENTHANDLER_H.
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in net, to avoid compatibility breakage for no sake.
The future plan is to split most of non-kernel parts of
pfvar.h into pf.h, and then make pfvar.h a kernel only
include breaking compatibility.
Discussed with: bz
- Provide pf_altq.h that has only stuff needed for ALTQ.
- Start pf.h, that would have all constant values and
eventually non-kernel structures.
- Build ALTQ w/o pfvar.h, include if_var.h, that before
came via pollution.
- Build tcpdump w/o pfvar.h.
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to this event, adding if_var.h to files that do need it. Also, include
all includes that now are included due to implicit pollution via if_var.h
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created after each other e.g.
ifconfig tap0
ifconfig vmnet0
<panic>
Appears to be a cut'n'paste error from the tap code to the vmnet
code where the name string wasn't updated in the call to make_dev().
Reviewed by: glebius
MFC after: 3 days
Usual symptoms are messages like
rn_delete: inconsistent annotation
rn_addmask: mask impossibly already in tree
or inability to flush/delete particular prefix in ipfw table.
Changes:
* Assume 32 bytes as maximum radix key length
* Remove rn_init()
* Statically allocate rn_ones/rn_zeroes
* Make separate mask tree for each "normal" tree instead of system global one
* Remove "optimization" on masks reusage and key zeroying
* Change rn_addmask() arguments to accept tree pointer (no users in base)
PR: kern/182851, kern/169206, kern/135476, kern/134531
Found by: Slawa Olhovchenkov <slw@zxy.spb.ru>
MFC after: 2 weeks
Reviewed by: glebius
Sponsored by: Yandex LLC
four counters to struct ifaddr. This kills '+=' on a variables shared
between processors for every packet.
- Nuke struct if_data from struct ifaddr.
- In ip_input() do not put a reference on ifaddr, instead update statistics
right now in place and do IN_IFADDR_RUNLOCK(). These removes atomic(9)
for every packet. [1]
- To properly support NET_RT_IFLISTL sysctl used by getifaddrs(3), in
rtsock.c fill if_data fields using counter_u64_fetch().
- Accidentially fix bug in COMPAT_32 version of NET_RT_IFLISTL, which
took if_data not from the ifaddr, but from ifaddr's ifnet. [2]
Submitted by: melifaro [1], pluknet[2]
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and there are ifnets, that do that via counter(9). Provide a flag that
would skip cache line trashing '+=' operation in ether_input().
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Reviewed by: melifaro, adrian
Approved by: re (marius)
been tested. With all sources turned on, this unlocks itself in
a couple of seconds! That is no my box, and there is no guarantee
that this will be the case everywhere.
* Cut debug prints.
* Use the same locks/mutexes all the way through.
* Be a tad more conservative about entropy estimates.
Contains:
* Refactor the hardware RNG CPU instruction sources to feed into
the software mixer. This is unfinished. The actual harvesting needs
to be sorted out. Modified by me (see below).
* Remove 'frac' parameter from random_harvest(). This was never
used and adds extra code for no good reason.
* Remove device write entropy harvesting. This provided a weak
attack vector, was not very good at bootstrapping the device. To
follow will be a replacement explicit reseed knob.
* Separate out all the RANDOM_PURE sources into separate harvest
entities. This adds some secuity in the case where more than one
is present.
* Review all the code and fix anything obviously messy or inconsistent.
Address som review concerns while I'm here, like rename the pseudo-rng
to 'dummy'.
Submitted by: Arthur Mesh <arthurmesh@gmail.com> (the first item)
extremely outdated, and I doubt that it was ever used for ifnet drivers.
It was used for AF_INET sockets in pre-FreeBSD time.
Approved by: re (hrs)
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transmission which could be tricked into rounding up to the nearest
page size, leaking up to a page of kernel memory. [13:11]
In IPv6 and NetATM, stop SIOCSIFADDR, SIOCSIFBRDADDR, SIOCSIFDSTADDR
and SIOCSIFNETMASK at the socket layer rather than pass them on to the
link layer without validation or credential checks. [SA-13:12]
Prevent cross-mount hardlinks between different nullfs mounts of the
same underlying filesystem. [SA-13:13]
Security: CVE-2013-5666
Security: FreeBSD-SA-13:11.sendfile
Security: CVE-2013-5691
Security: FreeBSD-SA-13:12.ifioctl
Security: CVE-2013-5710
Security: FreeBSD-SA-13:13.nullfs
Approved by: re
the rest by me.
o Namespace cleanup; the Yarrow name is now restricted to where it
really applies; this is in anticipation of being augmented or
replaced by Fortuna in the future. Fortuna is mentioned, but behind
#if logic, and is ignorable for now.
o The harvest queue is pulled out into its own modules.
o Entropy harvesting is emproved, both by being made more conservative,
and by separating (a bit!) the sources. Available entropy crumbs are
marginally improved.
o Selection of sources is made clearer. With recent revelations,
this will receive more work in the weeks and months to come.
Submitted by: Arthur Mesh (partly) <arthurmesh@gmail.com>
These were used to control/export dispatch policy but they're not anymore.
This commit cannot be MFC'ed to 9 because old netstat(9) binary relies
on such sysctl to work. On the other hand, there's no real reason to
keep'em around in 10.
We've been seeing lots of cache line contention (but not lock contention!)
in our workloads between the various TX and RX threads going on.
The write lock is only grabbed when configuration changes are made - which
are infrequent.
With this patch, the contention and cycles spent waiting for updates
disappear.
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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).
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The linked list of pfil hooks is changed to "chain" and this term
is applied consistently. The head_list remains with "list" term.
Add KASSERT to vnet_pfil_uninit().
Update and extend comments.
Reviewed by: eri (previous version)
