[newlib 33/65] Introduce scalable route multipath.

Sebastian Huber sebastian.huber at embedded-brains.de
Thu Jul 7 11:58:40 UTC 2022


From: "Alexander V. Chernikov" <melifaro at FreeBSD.org>

This change is based on the nexthop objects landed in D24232.

The change introduces the concept of nexthop groups.
Each group contains the collection of nexthops with their
 relative weights and a dataplane-optimized structure to enable
 efficient nexthop selection.

Simular to the nexthops, nexthop groups are immutable. Dataplane part
 gets compiled during group creation and is basically an array of
 nexthop pointers, compiled w.r.t their weights.

With this change, `rt_nhop` field of `struct rtentry` contains either
 nexthop or nexthop group. They are distinguished by the presense of
 NHF_MULTIPATH flag.
All dataplane lookup functions returns pointer to the nexthop object,
leaving nexhop groups details inside routing subsystem.

User-visible changes:

The change is intended to be backward-compatible: all non-mpath operations
 should work as before with ROUTE_MPATH and net.route.multipath=1.

All routes now comes with weight, default weight is 1, maximum is 2^24-1.

Current maximum multipath group width is statically set to 64.
 This will become sysctl-tunable in the followup changes.

Using functionality:
* Recompile kernel with ROUTE_MPATH
* set net.route.multipath to 1

route add -6 2001:db8::/32 2001:db8::2 -weight 10
route add -6 2001:db8::/32 2001:db8::3 -weight 20

netstat -6On

Nexthop groups data

Internet6:
GrpIdx  NhIdx     Weight   Slots                                 Gateway     Netif  Refcnt
1         ------- ------- ------- --------------------------------------- ---------       1
              13      10       1                             2001:db8::2     vlan2
              14      20       2                             2001:db8::3     vlan2

Next steps:
* Land outbound hashing for locally-originated routes ( D26523 ).
* Fix net/bird multipath (net/frr seems to work fine)
* Add ROUTE_MPATH to GENERIC
* Set net.route.multipath=1 by default

Tested by:	olivier
Reviewed by:	glebius
Relnotes:	yes
Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D26449
---
 newlib/libc/sys/rtems/include/sys/socket.h | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/newlib/libc/sys/rtems/include/sys/socket.h b/newlib/libc/sys/rtems/include/sys/socket.h
index 78831a54f..0be6879de 100644
--- a/newlib/libc/sys/rtems/include/sys/socket.h
+++ b/newlib/libc/sys/rtems/include/sys/socket.h
@@ -409,6 +409,7 @@ struct sockproto {
 #define	NET_RT_IFLISTL	5		/* Survey interface list, using 'l'en
 					 * versions of msghdr structs. */
 #define NET_RT_NHOP	6		/* dump routing nexthops */
+#define NET_RT_NHGRP	7		/* dump routing nexthop groups */
 #endif /* __BSD_VISIBLE */
 
 /*
-- 
2.35.3



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