Historically we've been passing PacketBuffer by shallow copying through out
the stack. Right now, this is only correct as the caller would not use
PacketBuffer after passing into the next layer in netstack.
With new buffer management effort in gVisor/netstack, PacketBuffer will
own a Buffer (to be added). Internally, both PacketBuffer and Buffer may
have pointers and shallow copying shouldn't be used.
Updates #2404.
PiperOrigin-RevId: 314610879
Connection tracking is used to track packets in prerouting and
output hooks of iptables. The NAT rules modify the tuples in
connections. The connection tracking code modifies the packets by
looking at the modified tuples.
These methods let users eaily break the VectorisedView abstraction, and
allowed netstack to slip into pseudo-enforcement of the "all headers are
in the first View" invariant. Removing them and replacing with PullUp(n)
breaks this reliance and will make it easier to add iptables support and
rework network buffer management.
The new View.PullUp(n) method is low cost in the common case, when when
all the headers fit in the first View.
PiperOrigin-RevId: 308163542
These methods let users eaily break the VectorisedView abstraction, and
allowed netstack to slip into pseudo-enforcement of the "all headers are
in the first View" invariant. Removing them and replacing with PullUp(n)
breaks this reliance and will make it easier to add iptables support and
rework network buffer management.
The new View.PullUp(n) method is low cost in the common case, when when
all the headers fit in the first View.
Software GSO implementation currently has a complicated code path with
implicit assumptions that all packets to WritePackets carry same Data
and it does this to avoid allocations on the path etc. But this makes it
hard to reuse the WritePackets API.
This change breaks all such assumptions by introducing a new Vectorised
View API ReadToVV which can be used to cleanly split a VV into multiple
independent VVs. Further this change also makes packet buffers linkable
to form an intrusive list. This allows us to get rid of the array of
packet buffers that are passed in the WritePackets API call and replace
it with a list of packet buffers.
While this code does introduce some more allocations in the benchmarks
it doesn't cause any degradation.
Updates #231
PiperOrigin-RevId: 304731742
This feature will match UID and GID of the packet creator, for locally
generated packets. This match is only valid in the OUTPUT and POSTROUTING
chains. Forwarded packets do not have any socket associated with them.
Packets from kernel threads do have a socket, but usually no owner.
This allows the link layer endpoints to consistenly hash a TCP
segment to a single underlying queue in case a link layer endpoint
does support multiple underlying queues.
Updates #231
PiperOrigin-RevId: 302760664
This is a precursor to be being able to build an intrusive list
of PacketBuffers for use in queuing disciplines being implemented.
Updates #2214
PiperOrigin-RevId: 302677662
Bhasker Hariharan
Ghanan Gowripalan
Ting-Yu Wang
Nayana Bidari
Kevin Krakauer
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