Gone are the old kern_sysctl(), cpu_sysctl(), hw_sysctl(),
vfs_sysctl(), etc, routines, along with sysctl_int() et al. Now all
nodes are registered with the tree, and nodes can be added (or
removed) easily, and I/O to and from the tree is handled generically.
Since the nodes are registered with the tree, the mapping from name to
number (and back again) can now be discovered, instead of having to be
hard coded. Adding new nodes to the tree is likewise much simpler --
the new infrastructure handles almost all the work for simple types,
and just about anything else can be done with a small helper function.
All existing nodes are where they were before (numerically speaking),
so all existing consumers of sysctl information should notice no
difference.
PS - I'm sorry, but there's a distinct lack of documentation at the
moment. I'm working on sysctl(3/8/9) right now, and I promise to
watch out for buses.
Fast-IPsec is a rework of the OpenBSD and KAME IPsec code, using the
OpenCryptoFramework (and thus hardware crypto accelerators) and
numerous detailed performance improvements.
This import is (aside from SPL-level names) the FreeBSD source,
imported ``as-is'' as a historical snapshot, for future maintenance
and comparison against the FreeBSD source. For now, several minor
kernel-API differences are hidden by macros a shim file, ipsec_osdep.h,
which (aside from SPL names) can be targeted at either NetBSD or FreeBSD.
thorpej