Currently it has several disadvantages:
- it uses single mutex to protect internal structures. It is used by
data- and control- path, thus there are no parallelism at all.
- it uses single list to keep encap handlers for both INET and INET6
families.
- struct encaptab keeps unneeded information (src, dst, masks, protosw),
that isn't used by code in the source tree.
- matches are prioritized and when many tunneling interfaces are
registered, encapcheck handler of each interface is invoked for each
packet. The search takes O(n) for n interfaces. All this work is done
with exclusive lock held.
What this patch includes:
- the datapath is converted to be lockless using epoch(9) KPI.
- struct encaptab now linked using CK_LIST.
- all unused fields removed from struct encaptab. Several new fields
addedr: min_length is the minimum packet length, that encapsulation
handler expects to see; exact_match is maximum number of bits, that
can return an encapsulation handler, when it wants to consume a packet.
- IPv6 and IPv4 handlers are stored in separate lists;
- added new "encap_lookup_t" method, that will be used later. It is
targeted to speedup lookup of needed interface, when gif(4)/gre(4) have
many interfaces.
- the need to use protosw structure is eliminated. The only pr_input
method was used from this structure, so I don't see the need to keep
using it.
- encap_input_t method changed to avoid using mbuf tags to store softc
pointer. Now it is passed directly trough encap_input_t method.
encap_getarg() funtions is removed.
- all sockaddr structures and code that uses them removed. We don't have
any code in the tree that uses them. All consumers use encap_attach_func()
method, that relies on invoking of encapcheck() to determine the needed
handler.
- introduced struct encap_config, it contains parameters of encap handler
that is going to be registered by encap_attach() function.
- encap handlers are stored in lists ordered by exact_match value, thus
handlers that need more bits to match will be checked first, and if
encapcheck method returns exact_match value, the search will be stopped.
- all current consumers changed to use new KPI.
Reviewed by: mmacy
Sponsored by: Yandex LLC
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D15617
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