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# 296373 04-Mar-2016 marius

- Copy stable/10@296371 to releng/10.3 in preparation for 10.3-RC1
builds.
- Update newvers.sh to reflect RC1.
- Update __FreeBSD_version to reflect 10.3.
- Update default pkg(8) configuration to use the quarterly branch.

Approved by: re (implicit)

# 281955 24-Apr-2015 hiren

MFC r275358 r275483 r276982 - Removing M_FLOWID by hps@

r275358:
Start process of removing the use of the deprecated "M_FLOWID" flag
from the FreeBSD network code. The flag is still kept around in the
"sys/mbuf.h" header file, but does no longer have any users. Instead
the "m_pkthdr.rsstype" field in the mbuf structure is now used to
decide the meaning of the "m_pkthdr.flowid" field. To modify the
"m_pkthdr.rsstype" field please use the existing "M_HASHTYPE_XXX"
macros as defined in the "sys/mbuf.h" header file.

This patch introduces new behaviour in the transmit direction.
Previously network drivers checked if "M_FLOWID" was set in "m_flags"
before using the "m_pkthdr.flowid" field. This check has now now been
replaced by checking if "M_HASHTYPE_GET(m)" is different from
"M_HASHTYPE_NONE". In the future more hashtypes will be added, for
example hashtypes for hardware dedicated flows.

"M_HASHTYPE_OPAQUE" indicates that the "m_pkthdr.flowid" value is
valid and has no particular type. This change removes the need for an
"if" statement in TCP transmit code checking for the presence of a
valid flowid value. The "if" statement mentioned above is now a direct
variable assignment which is then later checked by the respective
network drivers like before.

r275483:
Remove M_FLOWID from SCTP code.

r276982:
Remove no longer used "M_FLOWID" flag from mbuf.h and update the netisr
manpage.

Note: The FreeBSD version has been bumped.

Reviewed by: hps, tuexen
Sponsored by: Limelight Networks


# 262772 05-Mar-2014 glebius

Merge r262770 from head: pacify gcc.


# 262743 04-Mar-2014 glebius

Merge r261582, r261601, r261610, r261613, r261627, r261640, r261641, r261823,
r261825, r261859, r261875, r261883, r261911, r262027, r262028, r262029,
r262030, r262162 from head.

Large flowtable revamp. See commit messages for merged revisions for
details.

Sponsored by: Netflix


# 260077 30-Dec-2013 scottl

Merge r256563:

In the flowtable scanner, restart the scan at the last found position,
not at position 0. Changes the scanner from O(N^2) to O(N).

Reviewed by: emax
Obtained from: Netflix


# 256281 10-Oct-2013 gjb

Copy head (r256279) to stable/10 as part of the 10.0-RELEASE cycle.

Approved by: re (implicit)
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation


# 240086 04-Sep-2012 glebius

- Move jenkins.h to jenkins_hash.c
- Provide missing function that can do hashing of arbitrary sized buffer.
- Refetch lookup3.c and do only minimal edits to it, so that diff between
our jenkins_hash.c and lookup3.c is minimal.
- Add declarations for jenkins_hash(), jenkins_hash32() to sys/hash.h.
- Document these functions in hash(9)

Obtained from: http://burtleburtle.net/bob/c/lookup3.c


# 238989 02-Aug-2012 glebius

The llentry_update() is used only by flowtable and the latter
always passes NULL pointer to it. Thus, code can be simplified
and function renamed to llentry_alloc() to match rtalloc().


# 238092 04-Jul-2012 glebius

When ip_output()/ip6_output() is supplied a struct route *ro argument,
it skips FLOWTABLE lookup. However, the non-NULL ro has dual meaning
here: it may be supplied to provide route, and it may be supplied to
store and return to caller the route that ip_output()/ip6_output()
finds. In the latter case skipping FLOWTABLE lookup is pessimisation.

The difference between struct route filled by FLOWTABLE and filled
by rtalloc() family is that the former doesn't hold a reference on
its rtentry. Reference is hold by flow entry, and it is about to
be released in future. Thus, route filled by FLOWTABLE shouldn't
be passed to RTFREE() macro.

- Introduce new flag for struct route/route_in6, that marks route
not holding a reference on rtentry.
- Introduce new macro RO_RTFREE() that cleans up a struct route
depending on its kind.
- All callers to ip_output()/ip6_output() that do supply non-NULL
but empty route should use RO_RTFREE() to free results of
lookup.
- ip_output()/ip6_output() now do FLOWTABLE lookup always when
ro->ro_rt == NULL.

Tested by: tuexen (SCTP part)


# 231852 17-Feb-2012 bz

Merge multi-FIB IPv6 support from projects/multi-fibv6/head/:

Extend the so far IPv4-only support for multiple routing tables (FIBs)
introduced in r178888 to IPv6 providing feature parity.

This includes an extended rtalloc(9) KPI for IPv6, the necessary
adjustments to the network stack, and user land support as in netstat.

Sponsored by: Cisco Systems, Inc.
Reviewed by: melifaro (basically)
MFC after: 10 days


# 230598 26-Jan-2012 kmacy

A flowtable entry can continue referencing an llentry indefinitely if the entry is repeatedly
referenced within its timeout window. This change clears the LLE_VALID flag when an llentry
is removed from an interface's hash table and adds an extra check to the flowtable code
for the LLE_VALID flag in llentry to avoid retaining and using a stale reference.

Reviewed by: qingli@
MFC after: 2 weeks


# 227309 07-Nov-2011 ed

Mark all SYSCTL_NODEs static that have no corresponding SYSCTL_DECLs.

The SYSCTL_NODE macro defines a list that stores all child-elements of
that node. If there's no SYSCTL_DECL macro anywhere else, there's no
reason why it shouldn't be static.


# 217076 06-Jan-2011 jhb

- Restore dropping the priority of syncer down to PPAUSE when it is idle.
This was lost when it was converted to using a condition variable instead
of lbolt.
- Drop the priority of flowtable down to PPAUSE when it is idle as well
since it is a similar background task.

MFC after: 2 weeks


# 216856 31-Dec-2010 bz

Print the vnet pointer under DDB when iterating over flowtables of each
virtual network stack instance.

Sponsored by: ISPsystem [1]
Reviewed by: julian [1]
MFC after: 1 week

[1] Early 2010.


# 216855 31-Dec-2010 bz

Move the increment operation under the lock and split the condition
variable into two so that we can see on which one we are waiting.
This might also more properly propagate the update of the
flowclean_cycles flag and avoid "hangs" people were seeing.

Suggested by: rwatson [1]
Sponsored by: ISPsystem [1]
Reviewed by: julian [1]
Updated by: Mikolaj Golub (to.my.trociny gmail.com)
Tested by: Mikolaj Golub (to.my.trociny gmail.com)
MFC After: 1 week

[1] Early 2010, initial version.


# 215701 22-Nov-2010 dim

After some off-list discussion, revert a number of changes to the
DPCPU_DEFINE and VNET_DEFINE macros, as these cause problems for various
people working on the affected files. A better long-term solution is
still being considered. This reversal may give some modules empty
set_pcpu or set_vnet sections, but these are harmless.

Changes reverted:

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r215318 | dim | 2010-11-14 21:40:55 +0100 (Sun, 14 Nov 2010) | 4 lines

Instead of unconditionally emitting .globl's for the __start_set_xxx and
__stop_set_xxx symbols, only emit them when the set_vnet or set_pcpu
sections are actually defined.

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r215317 | dim | 2010-11-14 21:38:11 +0100 (Sun, 14 Nov 2010) | 3 lines

Apply the STATIC_VNET_DEFINE and STATIC_DPCPU_DEFINE macros throughout
the tree.

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r215316 | dim | 2010-11-14 21:23:02 +0100 (Sun, 14 Nov 2010) | 2 lines

Add macros to define static instances of VNET_DEFINE and DPCPU_DEFINE.


# 215317 14-Nov-2010 dim

Apply the STATIC_VNET_DEFINE and STATIC_DPCPU_DEFINE macros throughout
the tree.


# 209059 11-Jun-2010 jhb

Update several places that iterate over CPUs to use CPU_FOREACH().


# 208171 16-May-2010 kmacy

allocate ipv6 flows from the ipv6 flow zone

reported by: rrs@

MFC after: 3 days


# 207953 12-May-2010 kmacy

workaround bug with ipv6 where a flow can have a null rtentry


# 207303 28-Apr-2010 kmacy

need to initialize the lock before it is used

MFC after: 3 days


# 205488 22-Mar-2010 kmacy

- boot-time size the ipv4 flowtable and the maximum number of flows
- increase flow cleaning frequency and decrease flow caching time
when near the flow limit
- stop allocating new flows when within 3% of maxflows don't start
allocating again until below 12.5%

MFC after: 7 days


# 205097 12-Mar-2010 kmacy

flowtable_get_hashkey is only used by a DDB function - move under #ifdef DDB

pointed out by jkim@


# 205093 12-Mar-2010 kmacy

re-update copyright to 2010
pointed out by danfe@


# 205077 12-Mar-2010 qingli

The flow-table module retrieves the destination and source
address as well as the transport protocol port information
from the outbound packets. The routing code is generic and
compares every byte in the given sockaddr object. Therefore
the temporary sockaddr objects must be cleared due to padding
bytes. In addition, the port information must be stripped
or the route search will either fail or return the incorrect
route entry.

Unit testing is done using OpenVPN over the if_tun interface.

MFC after: 7 days


# 205069 12-Mar-2010 kmacy

fix stats reporting sysctl


# 205066 12-Mar-2010 kmacy

- restructure flowtable to support ipv6
- add a name argument to flowtable_alloc for printing with ddb commands
- extend ddb commands to print destination address or 4-tuples
- don't parse ports in ulp header if FL_HASH_ALL is not passed
- add kern_flowtable_insert to enable more generic use of flowtable
(e.g. system calls for adding entries)
- don't hash loopback addresses
- cleanup whitespace
- keep statistics per-cpu for per-cpu flowtables to avoid cache line contention
- add sysctls to accumulate stats and report aggregate

MFC after: 7 days


# 204902 09-Mar-2010 qingli

One of the advantages of enabling ECMP (a.k.a RADIX_MPATH) is to
allow for connection load balancing across interfaces. Currently
the address alias handling method is colliding with the ECMP code.
For example, when two interfaces are configured on the same prefix,
only one prefix route is installed. So connection load balancing
among the available interfaces is not possible.

The other advantage of ECMP is for failover. The issue with the
current code, is that the interface link-state is not reflected
in the route entry. For example, if there are two interfaces on
the same prefix, the cable on one interface is unplugged, new and
existing connections should switch over to the other interface.
This is not done today and packets go into a black hole.

Also, there is a small bug in the kernel where deleting ECMP routes
in the userland will always return an error even though the command
is successfully executed.

MFC after: 5 days


# 201758 07-Jan-2010 mbr

Remove extraneous semicolons, no functional changes.

Submitted by: Marc Balmer <marc@msys.ch>
MFC after: 1 week


# 198353 22-Oct-2009 qingli

Verify "smp_started" is true before calling
sched_bind() and sched_unbind().

Reviewed by: kmacy
MFC after: 3 days


# 198306 20-Oct-2009 qingli

The flow-table function flowtable_route_flush() may be called
during system initialization time. Since the flow-table is
designed to maintain per CPU flow cache, the existing code
did not check whether "smp_started" is true before calling
sched_bind() and sched_unbind(), which triggers a page fault.

Reviewed by: jeff
MFC after: immediately


# 197687 01-Oct-2009 qingli

The flow-table associates TCP/UDP flows and IP destinations with
specific routes. When the routing table changes, for example,
when a new route with a more specific prefix is inserted into the
routing table, the flow-table is not updated to reflect that change.
As such existing connections cannot take advantage of the new path.
In some cases the path is broken. This patch will update the affected
flow-table entries when a more specific route is added. The route
entry is properly marked when a route is deleted from the table.
In this case, when the flow-table performs a search, the stale
entry is updated automatically. Therefore this patch is not
necessary for route deletion.

Submitted by: simon, phk
Reviewed by: bz, kmacy
MFC after: 3 days


# 196609 28-Aug-2009 qingli

In ip_output(), the flow-table module must not try to cache L2/L3
information for interface of IFF_POINTOPOINT or IFF_LOOPBACK type.
Since the L2 information (rt_lle) is invalid for these interface
types, accidental caching attempt will trigger panic when the invalid
rt_lle reference is accessed.

When installing a new route, or when updating an existing route, the
user supplied gateway address may be an interface address (this is
particularly true for point-to-point interface related modules such
as ppp, if_tun, if_gif). Currently the routing command handler always
set the RTF_GATEWAY flag if the gateway address is given as part of the
command paramters. Therefore the gateway address must be verified against
interface addresses or else the route would be treated as an indirect
route, thus making that route unusable.

Reviewed by: kmacy, julia, rwatson
Verified by: marcus
MFC after: 3 days


# 196419 21-Aug-2009 julian

Don't allow access to the internals until it has all been set up.
Specifically, not until the per-vnet parts have been set up.

Submitted by: kmacy@
Reviewed by: julian@, zec@
Approved by: re(rwatson)
MFC after: immediately


# 196388 19-Aug-2009 kmacy

This change fixes a comment and addresses a complaint by kib@ by
moving a frequently executed flowtable syslog statement from being
conditional on bootverbose to conditional on a per-vnet flowtable
sysctl.

Approved by: re@


# 196368 18-Aug-2009 kmacy

- change the interface to flowtable_lookup so that we don't rely on
the mbuf for obtaining the fib index
- check that a cached flow corresponds to the same fib index as the
packet for which we are doing the lookup
- at interface detach time flush any flows referencing stale rtentrys
associated with the interface that is going away (fixes reported
panics)
- reduce the time between cleans in case the cleaner is running at
the time the eventhandler is called and the wakeup is missed less
time will elapse before the eventhandler returns
- separate per-vnet initialization from global initialization
(pointed out by jeli@)

Reviewed by: sam@
Approved by: re@


# 196342 17-Aug-2009 kmacy

fix netboot issue by disabling flowtable lookups until initialization has been run

Reviewed by: rwatson@
Approved by: re@


# 196019 01-Aug-2009 rwatson

Merge the remainder of kern_vimage.c and vimage.h into vnet.c and
vnet.h, we now use jails (rather than vimages) as the abstraction
for virtualization management, and what remained was specific to
virtual network stacks. Minor cleanups are done in the process,
and comments updated to reflect these changes.

Reviewed by: bz
Approved by: re (vimage blanket)


# 195837 23-Jul-2009 rwatson

Introduce and use a sysinit-based initialization scheme for virtual
network stacks, VNET_SYSINIT:

- Add VNET_SYSINIT and VNET_SYSUNINIT macros to declare events that will
occur each time a network stack is instantiated and destroyed. In the
!VIMAGE case, these are simply mapped into regular SYSINIT/SYSUNINIT.
For the VIMAGE case, we instead use SYSINIT's to track their order and
properties on registration, using them for each vnet when created/
destroyed, or immediately on module load for already-started vnets.
- Remove vnet_modinfo mechanism that existed to serve this purpose
previously, as well as its dependency scheme: we now just use the
SYSINIT ordering scheme.
- Implement VNET_DOMAIN_SET() to allow protocol domains to declare that
they want init functions to be called for each virtual network stack
rather than just once at boot, compiling down to DOMAIN_SET() in the
non-VIMAGE case.
- Walk all virtualized kernel subsystems and make use of these instead
of modinfo or DOMAIN_SET() for init/uninit events. In some cases,
convert modular components from using modevent to using sysinit (where
appropriate). In some cases, do minor rejuggling of SYSINIT ordering
to make room for or better manage events.

Portions submitted by: jhb (VNET_SYSINIT), bz (cleanup)
Discussed with: jhb, bz, julian, zec
Reviewed by: bz
Approved by: re (VIMAGE blanket)


# 195782 20-Jul-2009 rwatson

Garbage collect vnet module registrations that have neither constructors
nor destructors, as there's no actual work to do.

In most cases, the constructors weren't needed because of the existing
protocol initialization functions run by net_init_domain() as part of
VNET_MOD_NET, or they were eliminated when support for static
initialization of virtualized globals was added.

Garbage collect dependency references to modules without constructors or
destructors, notably VNET_MOD_INET and VNET_MOD_INET6.

Reviewed by: bz
Approved by: re (vimage blanket)


# 195727 16-Jul-2009 rwatson

Remove unused VNET_SET() and related macros; only VNET_GET() is
ever actually used. Rename VNET_GET() to VNET() to shorten
variable references.

Discussed with: bz, julian
Reviewed by: bz
Approved by: re (kensmith, kib)


# 195699 14-Jul-2009 rwatson

Build on Jeff Roberson's linker-set based dynamic per-CPU allocator
(DPCPU), as suggested by Peter Wemm, and implement a new per-virtual
network stack memory allocator. Modify vnet to use the allocator
instead of monolithic global container structures (vinet, ...). This
change solves many binary compatibility problems associated with
VIMAGE, and restores ELF symbols for virtualized global variables.

Each virtualized global variable exists as a "reference copy", and also
once per virtual network stack. Virtualized global variables are
tagged at compile-time, placing the in a special linker set, which is
loaded into a contiguous region of kernel memory. Virtualized global
variables in the base kernel are linked as normal, but those in modules
are copied and relocated to a reserved portion of the kernel's vnet
region with the help of a the kernel linker.

Virtualized global variables exist in per-vnet memory set up when the
network stack instance is created, and are initialized statically from
the reference copy. Run-time access occurs via an accessor macro, which
converts from the current vnet and requested symbol to a per-vnet
address. When "options VIMAGE" is not compiled into the kernel, normal
global ELF symbols will be used instead and indirection is avoided.

This change restores static initialization for network stack global
variables, restores support for non-global symbols and types, eliminates
the need for many subsystem constructors, eliminates large per-subsystem
structures that caused many binary compatibility issues both for
monitoring applications (netstat) and kernel modules, removes the
per-function INIT_VNET_*() macros throughout the stack, eliminates the
need for vnet_symmap ksym(2) munging, and eliminates duplicate
definitions of virtualized globals under VIMAGE_GLOBALS.

Bump __FreeBSD_version and update UPDATING.

Portions submitted by: bz
Reviewed by: bz, zec
Discussed with: gnn, jamie, jeff, jhb, julian, sam
Suggested by: peter
Approved by: re (kensmith)


# 194660 22-Jun-2009 zec

V_irtualize flowtable state.

This change should make options VIMAGE kernel builds usable again,
to some extent at least.

Note that the size of struct vnet_inet has changed, though in
accordance with one-bump-per-day policy we didn't update the
__FreeBSD_version number, given that it has already been touched
by r194640 a few hours ago.
Reviewed by: bz
Approved by: julian (mentor)


# 193863 09-Jun-2009 kmacy

revert to opt-in flowtable


# 193856 09-Jun-2009 kmacy

make flowtable opt-out


# 193854 09-Jun-2009 kmacy

move jenkins hash to its own header in libkern


# 193820 09-Jun-2009 bz

Remove one INET dependency by calling the general
AF agnostic version for doing the routing lookup.

Reviewed by: kmacy


# 191606 27-Apr-2009 kmacy

remove gratuitous memory barrier, a remnant of unified L2 / L3


# 191324 20-Apr-2009 kmacy

simplify code by removing bit_fns and replacing with the use of a temporary mask


# 191258 19-Apr-2009 kmacy

update TODO list


# 191257 19-Apr-2009 kmacy

- put larger flowtable members at the end
- fix bug where tail pointer of the free list would not get advanced
- clear entry's next pointer when it is added to the freelist to avoid freeing
an entry that it still points to


# 191255 19-Apr-2009 kmacy

- Import infrastructure for caching flows as a means of accelerating L3 and L2 lookups
as well as providing stateful load balancing when used with RADIX_MPATH.
- Currently compiled in to i386 and amd64 but disabled by default, it can be enabled at
runtime with 'sysctl net.inet.flowtable.enable=1'.

- Embedded users can remove it entirely from the kernel by adding 'nooption FLOWTABLE' to
their kernel config files.

- A minimal hookup will be added to ip_output in a subsequent commit. I would like to see
more review before bringing in changes that require more churn.

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