Implement a CPU-affine TCP and UDP connection lookup data structure,

struct inpcbgroup.  pcbgroups, or "connection groups", supplement the
existing inpcbinfo connection hash table, which when pcbgroups are
enabled, might now be thought of more usefully as a per-protocol
4-tuple reservation table.

Connections are assigned to connection groups base on a hash of their
4-tuple; wildcard sockets require special handling, and are members
of all connection groups.  During a connection lookup, a
per-connection group lock is employed rather than the global pcbinfo
lock.  By aligning connection groups with input path processing,
connection groups take on an effective CPU affinity, especially when
aligned with RSS work placement (see a forthcoming commit for
details).  This eliminates cache line migration associated with
global, protocol-layer data structures in steady state TCP and UDP
processing (with the exception of protocol-layer statistics; further
commit to follow).

Elements of this approach were inspired by Willman, Rixner, and Cox's
2006 USENIX paper, "An Evaluation of Network Stack Parallelization
Strategies in Modern Operating Systems".  However, there are also
significant differences: we maintain the inpcb lock, rather than using
the connection group lock for per-connection state.

Likewise, the focus of this implementation is alignment with NIC
packet distribution strategies such as RSS, rather than pure software
strategies.  Despite that focus, software distribution is supported
through the parallel netisr implementation, and works well in
configurations where the number of hardware threads is greater than
the number of NIC input queues, such as in the RMI XLR threaded MIPS
architecture.

Another important difference is the continued maintenance of existing
hash tables as "reservation tables" -- these are useful both to
distinguish the resource allocation aspect of protocol name management
and the more common-case lookup aspect.  In configurations where
connection tables are aligned with hardware hashes, it is desirable to
use the traditional lookup tables for loopback or encapsulated traffic
rather than take the expense of hardware hashes that are hard to
implement efficiently in software (such as RSS Toeplitz).

Connection group support is enabled by compiling "options PCBGROUP"
into your kernel configuration; for the time being, this is an
experimental feature, and hence is not enabled by default.

Subject to the limited MFCability of change dependencies in inpcb,
and its change to the inpcbinfo init function signature, this change
in principle could be merged to FreeBSD 8.x.

Reviewed by:    bz
Sponsored by:   Juniper Networks, Inc.

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/sys/netinet6/in6_pcb.h b/sys/netinet6/in6_pcb.h
index cf24704..8398d54 100644
--- a/sys/netinet6/in6_pcb.h
+++ b/sys/netinet6/in6_pcb.h
@@ -69,6 +69,16 @@
 #define	sin6tosa(sin6)	((struct sockaddr *)(sin6))
 #define	ifatoia6(ifa)	((struct in6_ifaddr *)(ifa))
 
+struct	inpcbgroup *
+	in6_pcbgroup_byhash(struct inpcbinfo *, u_int, uint32_t);
+struct	inpcbgroup *
+	in6_pcbgroup_byinpcb __P((struct inpcb *));
+struct inpcbgroup *
+	in6_pcbgroup_bymbuf(struct inpcbinfo *, struct mbuf *);
+struct	inpcbgroup *
+	in6_pcbgroup_bytuple __P((struct inpcbinfo *, const struct in6_addr *,
+	    u_short, const struct in6_addr *, u_short));
+
 void	in6_pcbpurgeif0 __P((struct inpcbinfo *, struct ifnet *));
 void	in6_losing __P((struct inpcb *));
 int	in6_pcbbind __P((struct inpcb *, struct sockaddr *, struct ucred *));