- Don't use home-grown queue manipulation. Use <sys/queue.h> instead. The
data structures are a little larger, but we are otherwise wasting the
memory chunk anyway (we're already a 64-byte malloc bucket).
- Fix a bug in the cache-is-full case: if the oldest element removed from
the first non-empty bucket was the only element in the bucket, the
bucket wouldn't be removed from the bucket cache, causing queue corruption
later.
- Optimize the syn cache timers by using PRT timers rather than home-grown
decrement-and-propagate timers.
This code is now a fair bit smaller, and significantly easier to read
and understand.
the protocol dispatch layer for TCP timers. This saves having to
modify a potentially large number of timer values (which were shorts,
and expanded to ... a lot of code on the Alpha).
- kern/5381 (Dennis Ferguson): check IP header checksum in fast forward
code.
- In ipflow_slowtimo(), if no IP flows are in use, don't bother checking
all of the hash buckets.
flow, by setting the "can fast forward" flag in the packet header, and
giving a chance for filters to clear the flag. If the flag is still
set after the filters have given it a chance, the packet will be used
to create a fast-forward flow entry.
the burst size allowed, but rather a fixed number of packets, as
described in the Internet Draft. Default allowed burst is 4 packets,
per the Draft.
Make the use of CWM and the allowed burst size tunable via sysctl.
if_fddisubr.c to fastpath IP forwarding. If ip_forward successfully
forwards a packet, it will create a cache (ipflow) entry. ether_input
and fddi_input will first call ipflow_fastforward with the received
packet and if the packet passes enough tests, it will be forwarded (the
ttl is decremented and the cksum is adjusted incrementally).
conditional (tcp_compat_42). The kernel config option TCP_COMPAT_42
will still enable this by default, or disable this by default if the
option is not included (i.e. current behavior). This will be made a
sysctl soon.
rule was to update the timestamp if the sequence numbers are in range. New
rule adds a check that the timestamp is advancing, thus preventing our notion
of the most recent timestamp from incorrectly moving backwards.
all of the fragments. Use the mtu of route in preference of the MTU of the
interface when doing fragmentation decisions. (ie. Fragment to the path
mtu if it is available).
TCP connections by using the MTU of the interface. Also added
a knob, mss_ifmtu, to force all connections to use the MTU of
the interface to calculate the advertised MSS.
thorpej