This is still somewhat experimental. Tested between 2 similar boxes
so far. There is much potential for performance improvement. For now,
I've changed the gmac code to accept any data alignment, as the "char *"
pointer suggests. As the code is practically used, 32-bit alignment
can be assumed, at the cost of data copies. I don't know whether
bytewise access or copies are worse performance-wise. For efficient
implementations using SSE2 instructions on x86, even stricter
alignment requirements might arise.
Push -Wno-array-bounds down to the cases that depend on it.
Selectively disable warnings for 3rd party software or non-trivial
issues to be reviewed later to get clang -Werror to build most of the
tree.
For this to fit, an API change in cryptosoft was adopted from OpenBSD
(addition of a "Setkey" method to hashes) which was done for GCM/GMAC
support there, so it might be useful in the future anyway.
tested against KAME IPSEC
AFAICT, FAST_IPSEC now supports as much as KAME.
- introduce a limit for the routes accepted via IPv6 Router Advertisement:
a common 2 interface client will have 6, the default limit is 100 and
can be adjusted via sysctl
- report the current number of routes installed via RA via sysctl
- count discarded route additions. Note that one RA message is two routes.
This is at present only across all interfaces even though per-interface
would be more useful, since the per-interface structure complies to RFC2466
- bump kernel version due to the previous change
- adjust netstat to use the new value (with netstat -p icmp6)
methods called Vestigial Time-Wait (VTW) and Maximum Segment Lifetime
Truncation (MSLT).
MSLT and VTW were contributed by Coyote Point Systems, Inc.
Even after a TCP session enters the TIME_WAIT state, its corresponding
socket and protocol control blocks (PCBs) stick around until the TCP
Maximum Segment Lifetime (MSL) expires. On a host whose workload
necessarily creates and closes down many TCP sockets, the sockets & PCBs
for TCP sessions in TIME_WAIT state amount to many megabytes of dead
weight in RAM.
Maximum Segment Lifetimes Truncation (MSLT) assigns each TCP session to
a class based on the nearness of the peer. Corresponding to each class
is an MSL, and a session uses the MSL of its class. The classes are
loopback (local host equals remote host), local (local host and remote
host are on the same link/subnet), and remote (local host and remote
host communicate via one or more gateways). Classes corresponding to
nearer peers have lower MSLs by default: 2 seconds for loopback, 10
seconds for local, 60 seconds for remote. Loopback and local sessions
expire more quickly when MSLT is used.
Vestigial Time-Wait (VTW) replaces a TIME_WAIT session's PCB/socket
dead weight with a compact representation of the session, called a
"vestigial PCB". VTW data structures are designed to be very fast and
memory-efficient: for fast insertion and lookup of vestigial PCBs,
the PCBs are stored in a hash table that is designed to minimize the
number of cacheline visits per lookup/insertion. The memory both
for vestigial PCBs and for elements of the PCB hashtable come from
fixed-size pools, and linked data structures exploit this to conserve
memory by representing references with a narrow index/offset from the
start of a pool instead of a pointer. When space for new vestigial PCBs
runs out, VTW makes room by discarding old vestigial PCBs, oldest first.
VTW cooperates with MSLT.
It may help to think of VTW as a "FIN cache" by analogy to the SYN
cache.
A 2.8-GHz Pentium 4 running a test workload that creates TIME_WAIT
sessions as fast as it can is approximately 17% idle when VTW is active
versus 0% idle when VTW is inactive. It has 103 megabytes more free RAM
when VTW is active (approximately 64k vestigial PCBs are created) than
when it is inactive.
use only sysctl and no kvm (implementing /dev/mem for a rump kernel
would probably not be hard, but still a non-zero effort).
Note: since there is absolutely no network activity in a fresh rump
kernel, rump.netstat usually displays exactly nothing when invoked
without parameters. Arguments like -r, -bi, -p icmp etc. produce
more stuff.
<sys/file.h> as it does that internally, and don't continue the
_KERNEL definition afterwards as it causes some other problems
with pcc relating to unreferenced symbols in unused static
inline functions which gcc optimises away.
<net/route.h> so remove it.
This fixes a build problem with pcc which is not as clever as gcc
when optimising away unused static inline functions which refer to
unknown symbols (eg sockaddr_dup).
Pfsync interface exposes change in the pf(4) over a pseudo-interface, and can
be used to synchronise different pf.
This work was part of my 2009 GSoC
No objection on tech-net@
This commit mostly adds code written by Claudio Jeker for OpenBSD to
support sysctl in the interface printing parts (-i, -I, -w). The port has
been ported to NetBSD with tiny adjustments -- of course all bugs etc.
are mine.
Also add and document a -X flag to force sysctl usage. The documentation
notes this flag may be removed at any time and its presence should not be
relied on.
Some misc. comments/#ifdef changes/code snippet moves as well.
Please note that no functionality should change as the routing and
interface printing code is still not fully supported.
Mailing list reference:
http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-userlevel/2009/09/09/msg002604.html
joerg