82334850ea
Unmapped mbufs allow sendfile to carry multiple pages of data in a single mbuf, without mapping those pages. It is a requirement for Netflix's in-kernel TLS, and provides a 5-10% CPU savings on heavy web serving workloads when used by sendfile, due to effectively compressing socket buffers by an order of magnitude, and hence reducing cache misses. For this new external mbuf buffer type (EXT_PGS), the ext_buf pointer now points to a struct mbuf_ext_pgs structure instead of a data buffer. This structure contains an array of physical addresses (this reduces cache misses compared to an earlier version that stored an array of vm_page_t pointers). It also stores additional fields needed for in-kernel TLS such as the TLS header and trailer data that are currently unused. To more easily detect these mbufs, the M_NOMAP flag is set in m_flags in addition to M_EXT. Various functions like m_copydata() have been updated to safely access packet contents (using uiomove_fromphys()), to make things like BPF safe. NIC drivers advertise support for unmapped mbufs on transmit via a new IFCAP_NOMAP capability. This capability can be toggled via the new 'nomap' and '-nomap' ifconfig(8) commands. For NIC drivers that only transmit packet contents via DMA and use bus_dma, adding the capability to if_capabilities and if_capenable should be all that is required. If a NIC does not support unmapped mbufs, they are converted to a chain of mapped mbufs (using sf_bufs to provide the mapping) in ip_output or ip6_output. If an unmapped mbuf requires software checksums, it is also converted to a chain of mapped mbufs before computing the checksum. Submitted by: gallatin (earlier version) Reviewed by: gallatin, hselasky, rrs Discussed with: ae, kp (firewalls) Relnotes: yes Sponsored by: Netflix Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D20616
FreeBSD Source:
This is the top level of the FreeBSD source directory. This file
was last revised on:
FreeBSD
FreeBSD is an operating system used to power modern servers, desktops, and embedded platforms. A large community has continually developed it for more than thirty years. Its advanced networking, security, and storage features have made FreeBSD the platform of choice for many of the busiest web sites and most pervasive embedded networking and storage devices.
For copyright information, please see the file COPYRIGHT in this directory. Additional copyright information also exists for some sources in this tree - please see the specific source directories for more information.
The Makefile in this directory supports a number of targets for building components (or all) of the FreeBSD source tree. See build(7), config(8), https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/makeworld.html, and https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig.html for more information, including setting make(1) variables.
Source Roadmap:
bin System/user commands.
cddl Various commands and libraries under the Common Development
and Distribution License.
contrib Packages contributed by 3rd parties.
crypto Cryptography stuff (see crypto/README).
etc Template files for /etc.
gnu Various commands and libraries under the GNU Public License.
Please see gnu/COPYING* for more information.
include System include files.
kerberos5 Kerberos5 (Heimdal) package.
lib System libraries.
libexec System daemons.
release Release building Makefile & associated tools.
rescue Build system for statically linked /rescue utilities.
sbin System commands.
secure Cryptographic libraries and commands.
share Shared resources.
stand Boot loader sources.
sys Kernel sources.
sys/<arch>/conf Kernel configuration files. GENERIC is the configuration
used in release builds. NOTES contains documentation of
all possible entries.
tests Regression tests which can be run by Kyua. See tests/README
for additional information.
tools Utilities for regression testing and miscellaneous tasks.
usr.bin User commands.
usr.sbin System administration commands.
For information on synchronizing your source tree with one or more of the FreeBSD Project's development branches, please see:
https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/current-stable.html