RTF_ANNOUNCE was defined as RTF_PROTO2. The flag is used to indicated
that host should act as a proxy for a link level arp or ndp request.
(If RTF_PROTO2 is used as an experimental flag (as advertised),
various problems can occur.)
This commit provides a first-class definition with its own bit for
RTF_ANNOUNCE, removes the old aliasing definitions, and adds support
for the new RTF_ANNOUNCE flag to netstat(8) and route(8).,
Also, remove unused RTF_ flags that collide with RTF_PROTO1:
netinet/icmp6.h defined RTF_PROBEMTU as RTF_PROTO1
netinet/if_inarp.h defined RTF_USETRAILERS as RTF_PROTO1
(Neither of these flags are used anywhere. Both have been removed
to reduce chances of collision with RTF_PROTO1.)
Figuring this out and the diff are the work of Beverly Schwartz of
BBN.
(Passed release build, boot in VM, with no apparently related atf
failures.)
Approved for Public Release, Distribution Unlimited
This material is based upon work supported by the Defense Advanced
Research Projects Agency and Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center,
Pacific, under Contract No. N66001-09-C-2073.
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.
