- Reduce available SPL levels for hardware devices to none, vm, sched, high.
- Acquire kernel_lock only for interrupts at IPL_VM.
- Implement threaded soft interrupts.
instead of adding/subtracting our own IPv4 header.
There are many benefits: gre(4) needn't grok the outer encapsulation
header any longer, so this simplifies the gre(4) code. The IP
stack needn't grok GRE, so it is simplified, too. gre(4) will
benefit from optimizations in the socket code. Eventually, gre(4)
will gain an IPv6 encapsulation with very few new lines of code.
There is a small performance loss. A 133 MHz, 486-class AMD Elan
sinks/sources a TCP stream over GRE with about 93% the throughput
of the old code. TCP throughput on a 266 MHz, 586-class AMD Geode
is about 96% the throughput of the old code. A 175-MHz ADM5120
(MIPS) only sinks a TCP stream over GRE at about 90% of the old
code; I am still investigating that.
I produced stripped-down versions of sosend() and soreceive() for
gre(4) to use. They are guaranteed not to block, so they can be
called from a software interrupt and from a socket upcall,
respectively.
A kernel thread is no longer necessary for socket transmit/receive,
but I didn't get around to removing it, yet.
Thanks to Matt Thomas for suggesting the use of stripped-down socket
code and software interrupts, and to Andrew Doran for advice and
answers concerning software interrupts, threads, and performance.
ifreq * arguments to ether_addmulti() and ether_delmulti() to const
struct sockaddr *, since ether_{add,del}multi() only ever read the
sockaddr ifreq member, ifr_addr. Update uses in carp(4) and in
vlan(4).
Somehow having it above interfered with ctags(1) producing a tag
for etherip_softc.
Remove the sole member of the union etherip_softc.sc_scr; call it
sc_ro. Delete the union. Delete the #define for sc_ro. The union
was a holdover from days before the route caches were unified.
Copy the entire sockaddr to the buffer to be written to user space,
according to its length, not just the part that fits in struct
sockaddr.
This fixes the 'bad MAC address' problem in dhclient.
sockaddrs bigger than struct sockaddr. Tightly bind decrementing
available space and using it, avoiding incorrect accounting in an
error case. Document invariants. Document calling convention for
SIOCGIFCONF. Simplify by removing code to handle sockaddrs that don't
fit in struct ifreq; with sockaddr_storage this can no longer occur.
Add several KASSERTs.
This commit resolves the problem with racoon failing to list
interfaces.
Proposed on tech-net@ with no objections.
