With GATEWAY (fastforward), the whole forwarding processing runs in
hardware interrupt context. So we cannot use rwlock for lltable and
llentry in that case.
This change replaces rwlock with mutex(IPL_NET) for lltable and llentry
when GATEWAY is enabled. We need to tweak locking only around rtree
in lltable_free. Other than that, what we need to do is to change macros
for locks.
I hope fastforward runs in softint some day in the future...
Highlights of the change are:
- Use llentry instead of llinfo to manage ARP caches
- ARP specific data are stored in the hashed list
of an interface instead of the global list (llinfo_arp)
- Fine-grain locking on llentry
- arptimer (callout) per ARP cache
- the global timer callout with the big locks can be
removed (though softnet_lock is still required for now)
- net.inet.arp.prune is now obsoleted
- it was the interval of the global timer callout
- net.inet.arp.refresh is now obsoleted
- it was a parameter that prevents expiration of active caches
- Removed to simplify the timer logic, but we may be able to
restore the feature if really needed
Proposed on tech-kern and tech-net.
lltable/llentry is new L2 nexthop cache data structures that
store caches in each interface (struct ifnet). It is imported
to replace the current ARP cache implementation that uses the
global list with the big kernel lock, and provide fine-grain
locking for cache operations. It is also planned to replace
NDP caches.
The code is based on FreeBSD's lltable/llentry as of r286629
and tweaked for NetBSD.
