The HTB implementation in libnl uses units of microseconds in a number
of places where it seems TC is expecting time in units of ticks, which
causes actual rates much higher than requested. Additionally, libnl
uses USER_HZ for calculating buffer and cbuffer sizes, which can
result in much larger buffers than necessary on systems with high
resolution timers.
Note that the TBF qdisc uses microseconds incorrectly in two spots as
well, I fixed this but did not test.
Adds rtnl_tc_get_link() returning the link associated with a tc
object.
Don't clone link associated with tc object when cloning the tc
object, refer to same link instead and bump refcnt.
Fix refcnt leak when assigning link in msg parser.
Deprecated the functions rtnl_qdisc_change() and
rtnl_qdisc_build_change_request() for their lack of being able to
specify flags. The new functions rtnl_qdisc_update() and
rtnl_qdisc_build_update_request() may be used instead. The old
functions are still available though. However, rtnl_qdisc_update()
no longer implies NLM_F_REPLACE, it has to specified implicitely
to allow updating a qdisc without risking to replace another qdisc.
Included detailed documentation of qdisc addition/update/deletion.
Introduced APPBUG() macro to let application developer know of
API abuse.
Finally got rid of all the qdisc/class/cls code duplication in
the tc module API. The API takes care of allocation/freeing the
tc object specific data.
I hope I got it right this time.
So far all common tc atttributes were accessed via specific functions, i.e.
rtnl_class_set_parent(), rtnl_qdisc_set_parent(), rtnl_cls_set_parent()
which implied a lot of code duplication. Since all tc objects are derived
from struct rtnl_tc and these common attributes are already stored in there
this patch removes all type specific functions and makes rtnl_tc_* attribute
functions public.
rtnl_qdisc_set_parent(qdisc, 10);
becomes:
rtnl_tc_set_parent((struct rtnl_tc *) qdisc, 10);
This patch also adds the following new attributes to tc objects therefore
removing them as tc specific attributes:
- mtu
- mpu
- overhead
This allows for the rate table calculations to be unified as well taking into
account the new kernel behavior to take care of overhead automatically.
A database to resolve qdisc/class names to classid values and vice versa.
The function rtnl_tc_handle2str() and rtnl_tc_str2handle() will resolve
names automatically.
A CLI based tool nl-classid-lookup is provided to integrate the database
into existing iproute2 scripts.
Replaces obsolete calls to nla_get_addr() and nla_get_data()
with nl_addr_alloc_attr() respectively nl_data_alloc_attr().
Also fixes missing error handling while parsing routing multipath
configuration.
In order for the interface to become more thread safe, the error
handling was revised to no longer depend on a static errno and
error string buffer.
This patch converts all error paths to return a libnl specific
error code which can be translated to a error message using
nl_geterror(int error). The functions nl_error() and
nl_get_errno() are therefore obsolete.
This change required various sets of function prototypes to be
changed in order to return an error code, the most prominent
are:
struct nl_cache *foo_alloc_cache(...);
changed to:
int foo_alloc_cache(..., struct nl_cache **);
struct nl_msg *foo_build_request(...);
changed to:
int foo_build_request(..., struct nl_msg **);
struct foo *foo_parse(...);
changed to:
int foo_parse(..., struct foo **);
This pretty much only leaves trivial allocation functions to
still return a pointer object which can still return NULL to
signal out of memory.
This change is a serious API and ABI breaker, sorry!
