We implement our hash table with pointers to the entry for each bucket (or
NULL). However, the entries are always allocated within the flow table,
meaning that a flow index will suffice, halving the size of the hash table.
For TCP, just a flow index would be enough, but future uses will want to
expand the hash table to cover indexing either side of a flow, so use a
flow_sidx_t as the type for each hash bucket.
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
Currently TCP uses the 'flow' epoll_ref field for both connected
sockets and timers, which consists of just the index of the relevant
flow (connection).
This is just fine for timers, for while it obviously works, it's
subtly incomplete for sockets on spliced connections. In that case we
want to know which side of the connection the event is occurring on as
well as which connection. At present, we deduce that information by
looking at the actual fd, and comparing it to the fds of the sockets
on each side.
When we use the flow table for more things, we expect more cases where
something will need to know a specific side of a specific flow for an
event, but nothing more.
Therefore add a new 'flowside' epoll_ref field, with exactly that
information. We use it for TCP connected sockets. This allows us to
directly know the side for spliced connections. For "tap"
connections, it's pretty meaningless, since the side is always the
socket side. It still makes logical sense though, and it may become
important for future flow table work.
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
In a number of places, we use indices into the flow table to identify a
specific flow. We also have cases where we need to identify a particular
side of a particular flow, and we expect those to become more common as
we generalise the flow table to cover more things.
To assist with that, introduces flow_sidx_t, an index type which identifies
a specific side of a specific flow in the table.
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
[sbrivio: Suppress false cppcheck positive in flow_sidx()]
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
Most of the messages logged by the TCP code (be they errors, debug or
trace messages) are related to a specific connection / flow. We're fairly
consistent about prefixing these with the type of connection and the
connection / flow index. However there are a few places where we put the
index later in the message or omit it entirely. The template with the
prefix is also a little bulky to carry around for every message,
particularly for spliced connections.
To help keep this consistent, introduce some helpers to log messages
linked to a specific flow. It takes the flow as a parameter and adds a
uniform prefix to each message. This makes things slightly neater now, but
more importantly will help keep formatting consistent as we add more things
to the flow table.
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
tcp_table_compact() will move entries in the connection/flow table to keep
it compact when other entries are removed. The moved entries need not have
the same type as the flow removed, so it needs to be able to handle moving
any type of flow. Therefore, move it to flow.c rather than being
purportedly TCP specific.
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
We want to generalise "connection" tracking to things other than true TCP
connections. Continue implenenting this by renaming the TCP connection
table to the "flow table" and moving it to flow.c. The definitions are
split between flow.h and flow_table.h - we need this separation to avoid
circular dependencies: the definitions in flow.h will be needed by many
headers using the flow mechanism, but flow_table.h needs all those protocol
specific headers in order to define the full flow table entry.
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
Currently TCP connections use a 1-bit selector, 'spliced', to determine the
rest of the contents of the structure. We want to generalise the TCP
connection table to other types of flows in other protocols. Make a start
on this by replacing the tcp_conn_common structure with a new flow_common
structure with an enum rather than a simple boolean indicating the type of
flow.
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
