Routes are now allocated only when they are just to be inserted to the
table. Updating a route needs a locally allocated route structure.
Ownership of the attributes is also now not transfered from protocols to
tables and vice versa but just borrowed which should be easier to handle
in a multithreaded environment.
BIRD implements shutdown by reconfiguring to fake empty configuration.
Such fake config structure is created from the last running config and
shares some data, including symbol table. This allows access to (removed)
routing tables and causes crash when 'show route' command is used during
shutdown.
Clean up symbol table, table list and links to default tables, so removed
routing tables cannot be accessed during shutdown.
We can also quite simply allocate bigger blocks. Anyway, we need these
blocks to be aligned to their size which needs one mmap() two times
bigger and then two munmap()s returning the unaligned parts.
The user can specify -B <N> on startup when <N> is the exponent of 2,
setting the block size to 2^N. On most systems, N is 12, anyway if you
know that your configuration is going to eat gigabytes of RAM, you are
almost forced to raise your block size as you may easily get into memory
fragmentation issues or you have to raise your maximum mapping count,
e.g. "sysctl vm.max_map_count=(number)".
Add trie tests intended as benchmarks that use external datasets
instead of generated prefixes. As datasets are not included, they
are commented out by default.
Use 16-way (4bit) branching in prefix trie instead of basic binary
branching. The change makes IPv4 prefix sets almost 3x faster, but
with more memory consumption and much more complicated algorithm.
Together with a previous filter change, it makes IPv4 prefix sets
about ~4.3x faster and slightly smaller (on my test data).
Pipes copy the original rte with old values, so they require rte to be
exported with stored tmpattrs. Other protocols access stored attributes
using eattr list, so they require rte to be exported with expanded
tmpattrs. This is temporary hack, we plan to remove whoe tmpattr mechanism.
Thanks to Paul Donohue for the bugreport.
In most cases of export there is no need to store back temporary
attributes to rte, as receivers (protocols) access eattr list anyway.
But pipe copies the original rte with old values, so we should store
tmpattrs also during export.
Thanks to Paul Donohue for the bugreport.
