- Socket layer becomes MP safe.
- Unix protocols become MP safe.
- Allows protocol processing interrupts to safely block on locks.
- Fixes a number of race conditions.
With much feedback from matt@ and plunky@.
reviewed by Joerg Sonnenberger. he pointed out that the original code
was written that way so that the compiler will explicitly not assume that
the alignment of the data is correct. although i don't know if it really
matters or not, being safer is not a problem.
- All three functions are included in the kernel by default.
They call a backend function cpu_in_cksum after possibly
computing the checksum of the pseudo header.
- cpu_in_cksum is the core to implement the one-complement sum.
The default implementation is moderate fast on most platforms
and provides a 32bit accumulator with 16bit addends for L32 platforms
and a 64bit accumulator with 32bit addends for L64 platforms.
It handles edge cases like very large mbuf chains (could happen with
native IPv6 in the future) and provides a good base for new native
implementations.
- Modify i386 and amd64 assembly to use the new interface.
This disables the MD implementations on !x86 until the conversion is
done. For Alpha, the portable version is faster.
to _ro_rt. Use rtcache_getrt() to access a route cache's struct
rtentry *.
Introduce struct ifnet->if_dl that always points at the interface
identifier/link-layer address. Make code that treated the first
ifaddr on struct ifnet->if_addrlist as the interface address use
if_dl, instead.
Remove stale debugging code from net/route.c. Move the rtflush()
code into rtcache_clear() and delete rtflush(). Delete rtalloc(),
because nothing uses it any more.
Make ND6_HINT an inline, lowercase subroutine, nd6_hint.
I've done my best to convert IP Filter, the ISO stack, and the
AppleTalk stack to rtcache_getrt(). They compile, but I have not
tested them. I have given the changes to PF, GRE, IPv4 and IPv6
stacks a lot of exercise.
don't assume that the cached route is a sockaddr_in6, and do the
right comparisions so that no out-of-bounds memory is accessed.
btw, the use of "#ifdef INET" throughout the source doesn't look clean
to me: There are 2 cases -- whether AF_INET is usable by userland
programs, and whether IPv4 is supported as on-wire protocol.
