linux-toradex.git/include/net/ip_fib.h, branch v3.14.3

ip*.h: Remove extern from function prototypes

2013-09-21T18:01:38+00:00

There are a mix of function prototypes with and without extern
in the kernel sources.  Standardize on not using extern for
function prototypes.

Function prototypes don't need to be written with extern.
extern is assumed by the compiler.  Its use is as unnecessary as
using auto to declare automatic/local variables in a block.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

ipv4: remove fib_update_nh_saddrs() declaration.

2013-07-02T07:33:52+00:00

This patch removes the fib_update_nh_saddrs() declaration from
include/net/ip_fib.h, as the fib_update_nh_saddrs() method was removed in
coomit 436c3b6 ("ipv4: Invalidate nexthop cache nh_saddr more correctly").

Signed-off-by: Rami Rosen 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

ipv4: use next hop exceptions also for input routes

2013-06-29T04:27:47+00:00

Commit d2d68ba9 (ipv4: Cache input routes in fib_info nexthops)
assmued that "locally destined, and routed packets, never trigger
PMTU events or redirects that will be processed by us".

However, it seems that tunnel devices do trigger PMTU events in certain
cases. At least ip_gre, ip6_gre, sit, and ipip do use the inner flow's
skb_dst(skb)->ops->update_pmtu to propage mtu information from the
outer flows. These can cause the inner flow mtu to be decreased. If
next hop exceptions are not consulted for pmtu, IP fragmentation will
not be done properly for these routes.

It also seems that we really need to have the PMTU information always
for netfilter TCPMSS clamp-to-pmtu feature to work properly.

So for the time being, cache separate copies of input routes for
each next hop exception.

Signed-off-by: Timo Teräs 
Reviewed-by: Julian Anastasov 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

ipv4: use separate genid for next hop exceptions

2013-06-03T07:07:43+00:00

commit 13d82bf5 (ipv4: Fix flushing of cached routing informations)
added the support to flush learned pmtu information.

However, using rt_genid is quite heavy as it is bumped on route
add/change and multicast events amongst other places. These can
happen quite often, especially if using dynamic routing protocols.

While this is ok with routes (as they are just recreated locally),
the pmtu information is learned from remote systems and the icmp
notification can come with long delays. It is worthy to have separate
genid to avoid excessive pmtu resets.

Cc: Steffen Klassert 
Signed-off-by: Timo Teräs 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

ipv4: fix definition of FIB_TABLE_HASHSZ

2013-03-13T14:47:09+00:00

a long time ago by the commit

  commit 93456b6d7753def8760b423ac6b986eb9d5a4a95
  Author: Denis V. Lunev 
  Date:   Thu Jan 10 03:23:38 2008 -0800

    [IPV4]: Unify access to the routing tables.

the defenition of FIB_HASH_TABLE size has obtained wrong dependency:
it should depend upon CONFIG_IP_MULTIPLE_TABLES (as was in the original
code) but it was depended from CONFIG_IP_ROUTE_MULTIPATH

This patch returns the situation to the original state.

The problem was spotted by Tingwei Liu.

Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev 
CC: Tingwei Liu 
CC: Alexey Kuznetsov 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

ipv4: add a fib_type to fib_info

2012-10-04T17:58:26+00:00

commit d2d68ba9fe8 (ipv4: Cache input routes in fib_info nexthops.)
introduced a regression for forwarding.

This was hard to reproduce but the symptom was that packets were
delivered to local host instead of being forwarded.

David suggested to add fib_type to fib_info so that we dont
inadvertently share same fib_info for different purposes.

With help from Julian Anastasov who provided very helpful
hints, reproduced here :


        Can it be a problem related to fib_info reuse
from different routes. For example, when local IP address
is created for subnet we have:

broadcast 192.168.0.255 dev DEV  proto kernel  scope link  src
192.168.0.1
192.168.0.0/24 dev DEV  proto kernel  scope link  src 192.168.0.1
local 192.168.0.1 dev DEV  proto kernel  scope host  src 192.168.0.1

        The "dev DEV  proto kernel  scope link  src 192.168.0.1" is
a reused fib_info structure where we put cached routes.
The result can be same fib_info for 192.168.0.255 and
192.168.0.0/24. RTN_BROADCAST is cached only for input
routes. Incoming broadcast to 192.168.0.255 can be cached
and can cause problems for traffic forwarded to 192.168.0.0/24.
So, this patch should solve the problem because it
separates the broadcast from unicast traffic.

        And the ip_route_input_slow caching will work for
local and broadcast input routes (above routes 1 and 3) just
because they differ in scope and use different fib_info.



Many thanks to Chris Clayton for his patience and help.

Reported-by: Chris Clayton 
Bisected-by: Chris Clayton 
Reported-by: Dave Jones 
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet 
Cc: Julian Anastasov 
Tested-by: Chris Clayton 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

ipv4: Cache routes in nexthop exception entries.

2012-07-31T22:02:02+00:00

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

ipv4: percpu nh_rth_output cache

2012-07-31T21:41:39+00:00

Input path is mostly run under RCU and doesnt touch dst refcnt

But output path on forwarding or UDP workloads hits
badly dst refcount, and we have lot of false sharing, for example
in ipv4_mtu() when reading rt->rt_pmtu

Using a percpu cache for nh_rth_output gives a nice performance
increase at a small cost.

24 udpflood test on my 24 cpu machine (dummy0 output device)
(each process sends 1.000.000 udp frames, 24 processes are started)

before : 5.24 s
after : 2.06 s
For reference, time on linux-3.5 : 6.60 s

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet 
Tested-by: Alexander Duyck 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

ipv4: Restore old dst_free() behavior.

2012-07-31T21:41:38+00:00

commit 404e0a8b6a55 (net: ipv4: fix RCU races on dst refcounts) tried
to solve a race but added a problem at device/fib dismantle time :

We really want to call dst_free() as soon as possible, even if sockets
still have dst in their cache.
dst_release() calls in free_fib_info_rcu() are not welcomed.

Root of the problem was that now we also cache output routes (in
nh_rth_output), we must use call_rcu() instead of call_rcu_bh() in
rt_free(), because output route lookups are done in process context.

Based on feedback and initial patch from David Miller (adding another
call_rcu_bh() call in fib, but it appears it was not the right fix)

I left the inet_sk_rx_dst_set() helper and added __rcu attributes
to nh_rth_output and nh_rth_input to better document what is going on in
this code.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

ipv4: Cache input routes in fib_info nexthops.

2012-07-20T20:36:40+00:00

Caching input routes is slightly simpler than output routes, since we
don't need to be concerned with nexthop exceptions.  (locally
destined, and routed packets, never trigger PMTU events or redirects
that will be processed by us).

However, we have to elide caching for the DIRECTSRC and non-zero itag
cases.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller