By this, the requesting channels do the timers in their own loops,
avoiding unnecessary synchronization when the central timer went off.
This is of course less effective for now, yet it allows to easily
implement selective reloads in future.
Instead of synchronous notifications, we use the asynchronous export
framework to notify flowspec src route updates. This allows us to
invoke flowspec revalidation without locking collisions.
Instead of synchronous notifications, we use the asynchronous export
framework to notify also hostcache updates. This allows us to do the
hostcache update and the subsequent next hop update notification without
locking collisions.
We can't free the network structures before the export has been cleaned
up, therefore it makes more sense to request prune only after export
cleanup. This change also reduces prune calls on table shutdown.
Had to fix route source locking inside BGP export table as we need to
keep the route sources properly allocated until even last BGP pending
update is sent out, therefore the export table printout is accurate.
Replacing the old 3.0-alpha0 cork mechanism with another one inside the
routing table. This version should be simpler and also quite clear what
it does, why and when.
These routines detect the export congestion (as defined by configurable
thresholds) and propagate the state to readers. There are no readers for
now, they will be added in following commits.
Some unit tests weren't initializing the birdloop, trying to write the
birdloop ping into stdin. Fixed this and also forced stdin close on
startup of every test just to be sure that CI and local build behave the
same in this. (CI was failing on this while local build not.)
Seems like the previous patch was too optimistic, as route replace is
still broken even in Linux 4.19 LTS (but fixed in Linux 5.10 LTS) for:
ip route add 2001:db8::/32 via fe80::1 dev eth0
ip route replace 2001:db8::/32 dev eth0
It ends with two routes instead of just the second.
The issue is limited to direct and special type (e.g. unreachable)
routes, the patch restricts route replace for cases when the new route
is a regular route (with a next hop address).
When IPv6 ECMP support first appeared in Linux kernel, it used different
API than IPv4 ECMP. Individual next hops were updated and announced
separately, instead of using RTA_MULTIPATH as in IPv4. This has several
drawbacks and requires complex code to merge received notifications to
one multipath route.
When Linux came with IPv6 RTA_MULTIPATH support, the initial versions
were somewhat buggy, so we kept using the old API for updates (splitting
multipath routes to sequences of route updates), while accepting both
old-style routes and RTA_MULTIPATH routes in scans / notifications.
As IPv6 RTA_MULTIPATH support is here for a long time, this patch fully
switches Netlink to the IPv6 RTA_MULTIPATH API and removes old complex
code for handling individual next hop announces.
The required Linux version is at least 4.11 for reliable operation.
Thanks to Daniel Gröber for the original patch.
