With tun.staged.workers set, each Linux UDP listener classifies a recvmmsg
batch, hands its data packets to that many decrypt workers, and an ordered
writer commits the batch in arrival order: replay window, roaming, firewall,
control packets and tun writes go through the same helpers inline receive
uses. Six batches per routine bound memory and backpressure. Conns that cannot
hand off their buffers stay inline.
The listener's classification is speculative. Before touching replay state the
writer resolves each data packet through its own batch-local hostmap cache,
exactly where inline receive would, so data after a close in the same batch is
still delivered while data after a removal or replacement between batches is
dropped, with the same RecvError reply inline receive sends. Known replays are
marked by a precheck and skip decryption, but keep their place so that reply
stays identical when an earlier RecvError deleted their tunnel.
New API: udp.StdConn.ListenOutHandoff, and the same on TesterConn for e2e,
runs the receive loop while handing each batch's buffers to the caller in
exchange for replacements. It is found through an unexported interface in
nebula, so udp.Conn and its other implementations are unchanged.
Metrics: flow.rx.batches, and flow.stage.{rx_read,rx_decrypt,rx_write}.q<N>.busy_ns.
Tests cover both ciphers, ordering, duplicate and corrupted packets from other
addresses, window jumps, control packets mid-batch, RecvError then replay,
tunnel replacement, firewall parity, fallback, real UDP sockets, partial
batches at close, and a handshake and traffic through e2e that checks pipeline
use on Linux and the inline fallback elsewhere. No isolated receive throughput
claim is made.
remove runtime.LockOSThread() because it makes things worse now
remove the "custom" Write() method from tun_linux.go, the stdlib path via os.File performs better
We should change our guidance around number of routines, ~2 per thread (that you wish to use for Nebula) seems to be about right now
If the host OS is already big endian, we were swapping bytes when we
shouldn't have. Use the Go helper to make sure we do the endianness
correctly
Fixes: #1189
On some systems, IPv6 is disabled (for example, CIS benchmark recommends to disable it when not used), but currently all UDP connections are using AF_INET6 sockets.
When we are binding AF_INET6 socket to an address like ::ffff:1.2.3.4 (IPv4 addresses are parsed by net.ParseIP this way), we can't send or receive IPv6 packets anyway, so this will not break any scenarios.
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Co-authored-by: Wade Simmons <wsimmons@slack-corp.com>
* add calculated_remotes
This setting allows us to "guess" what the remote might be for a host
while we wait for the lighthouse response. For networks that hard
designed with in mind, it can help speed up handshake performance, as well as
improve resiliency in the case that all lighthouses are down.
Example:
lighthouse:
# ...
calculated_remotes:
# For any Nebula IPs in 10.0.10.0/24, this will apply the mask and add
# the calculated IP as an initial remote (while we wait for the response
# from the lighthouse). Both CIDRs must have the same mask size.
# For example, Nebula IP 10.0.10.123 will have a calculated remote of
# 192.168.1.123
10.0.10.0/24:
- mask: 192.168.1.0/24
port: 4242
* figure out what is up with this test
* add test
* better logic for sending handshakes
Keep track of the last light of hosts we sent handshakes to. Only log
handshake sent messages if the list has changed.
Remove the test Test_NewHandshakeManagerTrigger because it is faulty and
makes no sense. It relys on the fact that no handshake packets actually
get sent, but with these changes we would send packets now (which it
should!)
* use atomic.Pointer
* cleanup to make it clearer
* fix typo in example
Ryan Huber