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Having a pointer of an interface in a mbuf isn't safe if we remove big kernel locks; an interface object (ifnet) can be destroyed anytime in any packet processing and accessing such object via a pointer is racy. Instead we have to get an object from the interface collection (ifindex2ifnet) via an interface index (if_index) that is stored to a mbuf instead of an pointer. The change provides two APIs: m_{get,put}_rcvif_psref that use psref(9) for sleep-able critical sections and m_{get,put}_rcvif that use pserialize(9) for other critical sections. The change also adds another API called m_get_rcvif_NOMPSAFE, that is NOT MP-safe and for transition moratorium, i.e., it is intended to be used for places where are not planned to be MP-ified soon. The change adds some overhead due to psref to performance sensitive paths, however the overhead is not serious, 2% down at worst. Proposed on tech-kern and tech-net. |
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aarp.c | ||
aarp.h | ||
at_control.c | ||
at_extern.h | ||
at_print.c | ||
at_proto.c | ||
at_rmx.c | ||
at_var.h | ||
at.h | ||
ddp_input.c | ||
ddp_output.c | ||
ddp_private.h | ||
ddp_usrreq.c | ||
ddp_var.h | ||
ddp.h | ||
files.netatalk | ||
Makefile | ||
phase2.h |