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David Greenman c3229e05a3 Improved connection establishment performance by doing local port lookups via
a hashed port list. In the new scheme, in_pcblookup() goes away and is
replaced by a new routine, in_pcblookup_local() for doing the local port
check. Note that this implementation is space inefficient in that the PCB
struct is now too large to fit into 128 bytes. I might deal with this in the
future by using the new zone allocator, but I wanted these changes to be
extensively tested in their current form first.

Also:
1) Fixed off-by-one errors in the port lookup loops in in_pcbbind().
2) Got rid of some unneeded rehashing. Adding a new routine, in_pcbinshash()
   to do the initialial hash insertion.
3) Renamed in_pcblookuphash() to in_pcblookup_hash() for easier readability.
4) Added a new routine, in_pcbremlists() to remove the PCB from the various
   hash lists.
5) Added/deleted comments where appropriate.
6) Removed unnecessary splnet() locking. In general, the PCB functions should
   be called at splnet()...there are unfortunately a few exceptions, however.
7) Reorganized a few structs for better cache line behavior.
8) Killed my TCP_ACK_HACK kludge. It may come back in a different form in
   the future, however.

These changes have been tested on wcarchive for more than a month. In tests
done here, connection establishment overhead is reduced by more than 50
times, thus getting rid of one of the major networking scalability problems.

Still to do: make tcp_fastimo/tcp_slowtimo scale well for systems with a
large number of connections. tcp_fastimo is easy; tcp_slowtimo is difficult.

WARNING: Anything that knows about inpcb and tcpcb structs will have to be
         recompiled; at the very least, this includes netstat(1).
1998-01-27 09:15:13 +00:00
bin
contrib Merge CYCLIC branch changes 1998-01-26 04:50:17 +00:00
crypto
etc
games
gnu
include
kerberos5
kerberosIV
lib PR: 5573 1998-01-27 07:01:09 +00:00
libexec
lkm
release Temporary work-around for a ports building problem I really don't 1998-01-27 01:06:49 +00:00
sbin
secure
share Generate symlinks to the "sys" and <machine> directories and put 1998-01-26 20:36:38 +00:00
sys Improved connection establishment performance by doing local port lookups via 1998-01-27 09:15:13 +00:00
tools
usr.bin
usr.sbin A bit of the dpt userland utilities that got left out. 1998-01-26 06:26:41 +00:00
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