in per-cpu storage, and collecting them for export in an if_data structure
when user-space wants them.
The new if_stat API is structured to make a gradual transition to the
new way in network drivers possible, and per-cpu stats are currently
disabled (thus there is no kernel ABI change). Once all drivers have
been converted, the old ABI will be removed, and per-cpu stats will be
enabled universally.
Add ether_sw_offload_[tr]x: handle TX/RX offload options in software.
Since this violates separation b/w L2 and L3/L4, new files are added
rather than having the routines in sys/net/if_ethersubr.c.
OK msaitoh thorpej
is of poor quality, and is now an obstacle to MP-ification. It was removed
ten years ago from FreeBSD for the same reason.
This retires a big user of the mbuf API, and will ease maintenance of the
kernel.
pr_input is currently called in softint. Some pr_input such as ICMP, ICMPv6
and CARP can add/delete/update IP addresses and routing table entries. For
example, icmp6_redirect_input updates an a routing table entry and
nd6_ra_input may delete an IP address.
Basically such operations shouldn't be done in softint. That aside, we have
a reason to avoid the situation; psz/psref waits cannot be used in softint,
however they are required to work in such pr_input in the MP-safe world.
The change implements the workqueue pr_input framework called wqinput which
provides a means to defer pr_input of a protocol to workqueue easily.
Currently icmp_input, icmp6_input, carp_proto_input and carp6_proto_input
are deferred to workqueue by the framework.
Proposed and discussed on tech-kern and tech-net
rather than including in kernels with KDTRACE_HOOKS defined. Update
the dtrace_fbt module to depend on the zlib module.
Bump kernel version to avoid module mismatch.
Welcome to 7.99.38 !
thorpej