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2023-01-21Merge commit '3859e4efc1597368df647323c5a3cc1771cb64ca' into thread-nextMaria Matejka
2023-01-19Merge commit '140c534fb81d0e165b7d674e869c646455ed19d1' into thread-nextMaria Matejka
2023-01-19Decoupling loops from threads to allow fixed thread countMaria Matejka
On large configurations, too many threads would spawn with one thread per loop. Therefore, threads may now run multiple loops at once. The thread count is configurable and may be changed during run. All threads are spawned on startup. This change helps with memory bloating. BIRD filters need large temporary memory blocks to store their stack and also memory management keeps its hot page storage per-thread. Known bugs: * Thread autobalancing is not yet implemented. * Low latency loops are executed together with standard loops.
2023-01-19Table prune routine doesn't walk over lists unless needed.Maria Matejka
If no channel is flushing, table prune doesn't walk over routes in nets and also doesn't walk over importing channel lists. This helps to alleviate the memory caching burdens a lot.
2022-12-09BGP: Improve handling of hold and keepalive timersOndrej Zajicek
The effective keepalive time now scales relative to the negotiated hold time, to maintain proportion between the keepalive time and the hold time. This avoids issues when both keepalive and hold times were configured, the hold time was negotiated to a smaller value, but the keepalive time stayed the same. Add new options 'min hold time' and 'min keepalive time', which reject session attempts with too small hold time. Improve validation of config options an their documentation. Thanks to Alexander Zubkov and Sergei Goriunov for suggestions.
2022-11-09Conf: Free stored old config before parsing new oneOndrej Zajicek
BIRD keeps a previous (old) configuration for the purpose of undo. The existing code frees it after a new configuration is successfully parsed during reconfiguration. That causes memory usage spikes as there are temporarily three configurations (old, current, and new). The patch changes it to free the old one before parsing the new one (as user already requested a new config). The disadvantage is that undo is not available after failed reconfiguration.
2022-11-07Merge commit '37b64441' into thread-nextMaria Matejka
2022-11-07Merge commit '8f79e6b9' into thread-nextMaria Matejka
2022-10-18Doc: Add documentation for "show route (import|export) table"Alexander Zubkov
2022-10-10BGP: Add option 'next hop prefer global'Ondrej Zajicek
Add BGP channel option 'next hop prefer global' that modifies BGP recursive next hop resolution to use global next hop IPv6 address instead of link-local next hop IPv6 address for immediate next hop of received routes.
2022-09-26Higher export settle times when route refresh is running.Maria Matejka
This helps the route refresh procedures to finish or at least do more work before the exporters jump in and steal all the CPU time for themselves.
2022-09-21Fixed the export settle timer to be actually a settle timerMaria Matejka
2022-09-09Created a dedicated settle timer structureMaria Matejka
2022-09-01ROA subscriptions are also converted to export requests.Maria Matejka
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.
2022-09-01Table debug is now a per-table setting and has categories.Maria Matejka
2022-08-05Merge commit '971721c9' into thread-nextMaria Matejka
2022-08-02Route table cork: Indicate whether the export queues are congested.Maria Matejka
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.
2022-07-24Merge branch 'master' into backportOndrej Zajicek
2022-07-13Merge commit '2e5bfeb73ac25e236a24b6c1a88d0f2221ca303f' into thread-nextMaria Matejka
2022-07-13Merge commit '7e9cede1fd1878fb4c00e793bccd0ca6c18ad452' into thread-nextMaria Matejka
2022-07-12BGP: Minor improvements to BGP rolesOndrej Zajicek
Add support for bgp_otc in filters and warning for configuration inside confederations.
2022-07-11BGP: Implement BGP rolesEugene Bogomazov
Implement BGP roles as described in RFC 9234. It is a mechanism for route leak prevention and automatic route filtering based on common BGP topology relationships. It defines role capability (controlled by 'local role' option) and OTC route attribute, which is used for automatic route filtering and leak detection. Minor changes done by commiter.
2022-07-11Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/master' into backportMaria Matejka
2022-07-10Merge version 2.0.10 into backportMaria Matejka
2022-06-27Filter: Implement for loopsOndrej Zajicek (work)
For loops allow to iterate over elements in compound data like BGP paths or community lists. The syntax is: for [ <type> ] <variable> in <expr> do <command-body>
2022-06-27Filter: Implement mixed declarations of local variablesOndrej Zajicek (work)
Allow variable declarations mixed with code, also in nested blocks with proper scoping, and with variable initializers. E.g: function fn(int a) { int b; int c = 10; if a > 20 then { b = 30; int d = c * 2; print a, b, c, d; } string s = "Hello"; }
2022-06-24Allowed optimized exporting of a subprefix treeMaria Matejka
Added an option for export filter to allow for prefiltering based on the prefix. Routes outside the given prefix are completely ignored. Config is simple: export in <net> <filter>;
2022-06-04Nest: Improve GC strategy for rtablesOndrej Zajicek
Use timer (configurable as 'gc period') to schedule routing table GC/pruning to ensure that prune is done on time but not too often. Randomize GC timers to avoid concentration of GC events from different tables in one loop cycle. Fix a bug that caused minimum inter-GC interval be 5 us instead of 5 s. Make default 'gc period' adaptive based on number of routing tables, from 10 s for small setups to 600 s for large ones. In marge multi-table RS setup, the patch improved time of flushing a downed peer from 20-30 min to <2 min and removed 40s latencies.
2022-05-30Merge commit '702c04fbef222e802ca4dfac645dc75ede522db6' into haugesundMaria Matejka
2022-05-30Merge commit '337c04c45e1472d6d9b531a3c55f1f2d30ebf308' into haugesundMaria Matejka
2022-05-30Merge commit '652be92a21f5575e5f74f6abe98eb4200b86776c' into haugesundMaria Matejka
2022-05-30Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/master' into haugesund-to-2.0Maria Matejka
2022-05-30Merge commit '692055e3df6cc9f0d428d3b0dd8cdd8e825eb6f4' into haugesund-to-2.0Maria Matejka
2022-05-04Removing the route scope attribute. Use custom attributes instead.Maria Matejka
The route scope attribute was used for simple user route marking. As there is a better tool for this (custom attributes), the old and limited way can be dropped.
2022-05-04Moved route preference to eattrsMaria Matejka
2022-04-22Doc: fix mating -> matching in flowspec sectionVincent Bernat
2022-04-07BFD: Add 'strict bind' optionOndrej Zajicek (work)
Add BFD protocol option 'strict bind' to use separate listening socket for each BFD interface bound to its address instead of using shared listening sockets.
2022-03-09Merge commit '56c8f2f0' into haugesundMaria Matejka
Conflicts: nest/route.h nest/rt-table.c
2022-03-09Merge commit 'e42eedb9' into haugesundMaria Matejka
2022-02-20Small changes related to the new releaseOndrej Filip
2022-02-06Merge branch 'oz-trie-table'Ondrej Zajicek (work)
2022-02-06Doc: Describe routing table optionsOndrej Zajicek (work)
2022-02-06BGP: Implement flowspec validation procedureOndrej Zajicek (work)
Implement flowspec validation procedure as described in RFC 8955 sec. 6 and RFC 9117. The Validation procedure enforces that only routers in the forwarding path for a network can originate flowspec rules for that network. The patch adds new mechanism for tracking inter-table dependencies, which is necessary as the flowspec validation depends on IP routes, and flowspec rules must be revalidated when best IP routes change. The validation procedure is disabled by default and requires that relevant IP table uses trie, as it uses interval queries for subnets.
2022-01-17Netlink: Add option to specify netlink socket receive buffer sizeOndrej Zajicek (work)
Add option 'netlink rx buffer' to specify netlink socket receive buffer size. Uses SO_RCVBUFFORCE, so it can override rmem_max limit. Thanks to Trisha Biswas and Michal for the original patches.
2022-01-09BGP: Add option 'free bind'Ondrej Zajicek (work)
The BGP 'free bind' option applies the IP_FREEBIND/IPV6_FREEBIND socket option for the BGP listening socket. Thanks to Alexander Zubkov for the idea.
2021-12-28Doc: Document min/max operators for listsAlexander Zubkov
2021-12-28Doc: Document community components access operatorsAlexander Zubkov
2021-12-18Doc: bgp: remove "advertise ipv4"Simon Ruderich
The option was removed in d15b0b0a ("BGP redesign", 2016-12-07) but the documentation wasn't updated.
2021-11-09Nest: Route generations and explicit tracking route propagion through pipesMaria Matejka
2021-10-13Dropping the RTS_DUMMY temporary route storage.Maria Matejka
Kernel route sync is done by other ways now and this code is not used currently.