NetworkManager/src
Thomas Haller 3416b00988
platform: don't put certain rtm_protocol routes in the platform cache
We need to support systems where there are hundereds of thousand routes
(e.g. BGP software).

For that, we will ignore routes that have a rtm_protocol value which was
certainly not created by NetworkManager. Before we had a BPF filer to
filter them out, but that had issues and is removed for now. Still,
don't put those routes in the platform cache and ignore them early.

Note that we still deserialize the RTM_NEWROUTE message to a NMPObject,
and don't shortcut earlier. The reason is that we should still call
delayed_action_refresh_all_in_progress() and handle the RTM_GETROUTE
response, even if the route has a different protocol. So we error out
later, shortly before putting the object in the cache. This means we
will malloc() a NMPObject and initialize it, but that is probably cheap,
compared to the first problem that the process already had to wake up
and read the netlink socket.

This restores the effective behavior of the BPF filter, albeit with a
higher overhead, as the route is rejected later. The important part for
now is that we stick to the behavior of not caching certain routes of a
certain protocol. If that can in the future be optimized (e.g. by a new
BPF filter), then we should do that. But for now that would be only a
future performance improvement, which requires new profiling first and
that has not the highest priority. Note that not caching certain routes
already should reduce the largest part of the overhead that those routes
brings. Whether this form is sufficient to reach the expected
performance goals, needs to be measured in the future.
2022-01-20 10:30:34 +01:00
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c-list src/c-list: reimport 2021-10-01 16:18:06 +02:00
c-rbtree c-rbtree: re-import git-subtree for 'src/c-rbtree' 2021-10-01 16:12:15 +02:00
c-siphash c-siphash: re-import git-subtree for 'src/c-siphash' 2021-10-01 16:07:26 +02:00
c-stdaux src/c-stdaux: reimport 2021-10-01 15:57:23 +02:00
contrib format: reformat source tree with clang-format 13.0 2021-11-29 09:31:09 +00:00
core l3cfg: on n-acd instance-reset clear also ready ACD state 2022-01-19 13:37:30 +01:00
libnm-base nm-sudo: rename to nm-priv-helper 2022-01-11 21:46:55 +01:00
libnm-client-aux-extern format: reformat source tree with clang-format 13.0 2021-11-29 09:31:09 +00:00
libnm-client-impl openvswitch: Add ovs-dpdk n_rxq property 2022-01-10 22:48:30 +00:00
libnm-client-public format: reformat source tree with clang-format 13.0 2021-11-29 09:31:09 +00:00
libnm-client-test format: reformat source tree with clang-format 13.0 2021-11-29 09:31:09 +00:00
libnm-core-aux-extern format: reformat source tree with clang-format 13.0 2021-11-29 09:31:09 +00:00
libnm-core-aux-intern format: reformat source tree with clang-format 13.0 2021-11-29 09:31:09 +00:00
libnm-core-impl libnm: don't clear secrets during NMSimpleConnection:dispose() 2022-01-19 13:42:17 +01:00
libnm-core-intern libnm: add and use _nm_setting_get_private_field() helper 2022-01-18 16:25:24 +01:00
libnm-core-public openvswitch: Add ovs-dpdk n_rxq property 2022-01-10 22:48:30 +00:00
libnm-glib-aux glib-aux/trivial: clearify code comment in nm_g_source_destroy_and_unref() 2022-01-19 18:53:44 +01:00
libnm-log-core format: reformat source tree with clang-format 13.0 2021-11-29 09:31:09 +00:00
libnm-log-null all: add some README.md files describing the purpose of our sources 2021-08-19 17:51:11 +02:00
libnm-platform platform: don't put certain rtm_protocol routes in the platform cache 2022-01-20 10:30:34 +01:00
libnm-std-aux format: reformat source tree with clang-format 13.0 2021-11-29 09:31:09 +00:00
libnm-systemd-core systemd: byte order to host before using the lifetime 2021-11-30 11:42:40 +01:00
libnm-systemd-shared systemd: merge branch systemd into main 2021-10-08 18:04:37 +02:00
libnm-udev-aux format: reformat source tree with clang-format 13.0 2021-11-29 09:31:09 +00:00
libnmc-base format: reformat source tree with clang-format 13.0 2021-11-29 09:31:09 +00:00
libnmc-setting openvswitch: Add ovs-dpdk n_rxq property 2022-01-10 22:48:30 +00:00
libnmt-newt format: reformat source tree with clang-format 13.0 2021-11-29 09:31:09 +00:00
linux-headers linux-headers: update nl802154.h kernel header 2021-09-06 10:00:36 +02:00
n-acd n-acd: fix handling of N_ACD_E_DROPPED 2021-09-30 15:10:17 +02:00
n-dhcp4 n-dhcp4: add an accessor for the file name in the lease 2021-07-27 09:36:33 +02:00
nm-cloud-setup format: reformat source tree with clang-format 13.0 2021-11-29 09:31:09 +00:00
nm-daemon-helper all: add some README.md files describing the purpose of our sources 2021-08-19 17:51:11 +02:00
nm-dispatcher format: reformat source tree with clang-format 13.0 2021-11-29 09:31:09 +00:00
nm-initrd-generator initrd: don't add a connection if there's a connection dir with rd.neednet 2021-12-01 15:13:16 +01:00
nm-online format: reformat source tree with clang-format 13.0 2021-11-29 09:31:09 +00:00
nm-priv-helper nm-sudo: rename to nm-priv-helper 2022-01-11 21:46:55 +01:00
nmcli openvswitch: Add ovs-dpdk n_rxq property 2022-01-10 22:48:30 +00:00
nmtui format: reformat source tree with clang-format 13.0 2021-11-29 09:31:09 +00:00
tests cli: correct active connection details header in nmcli output 2022-01-03 12:24:46 +01:00
meson.build nm-sudo: rename to nm-priv-helper 2022-01-11 21:46:55 +01:00
README.md nm-sudo: rename to nm-priv-helper 2022-01-11 21:46:55 +01:00

src/

Most of the subdirectories are static helper libraries, which get linked into one of the final build artifacts (like libnm, nmcli or NetworkManager). Static libraries are internal API.

The only public API is libnm, which is a shared library provided client implementations.

Our own clients (like nmcli and nmtui) also use libnm, the shared library. But they also use additional static helper libraries.

The daemon statically links against a part of libnm, the part that provides connection profiles. That is libnm-core. libnm-core is thus statically linked with libnm and the daemon. It does not get linked by clients that already link with libnm (like nmtui).

Read the individual README.md files in the subdirectories for details:

Directory Description
core/ the NetworkManager daemon
nmcli/ nmcli application, a command line client for NetworkManager
nmtui/ nmtui application, a text UI client for NetworkManager
nm-cloud-setup/ service to automatically configure NetworkManager in cloud environment
nm-initrd-generator/ generates NetworkManager configuration by parsing kernel command line options for dracut/initrd
nm-dispatcher/ NetworkManager-dispatcher service to run user scripts
nm-online/ application which checks whether NetworkManager is done, for implementing NetworkManager-wait-online.service
nm-priv-helper/ internal service for privileged operations
nm-daemon-helper/ internal helper binary spawned by NetworkManager
libnm-std-aux/ internal helper library for standard C
libnm-glib-aux/ internal helper library for glib
libnm-log-null/ internal helper library with dummy (null) logging backend
libnm-log-core/ internal helper library with logging backend (syslog) used by daemon
libnm-base/ internal helper library with base definitions
libnm-platform/ internal helper library for netlink and other platform/kernel API
libnm-udev-aux/ internal helper library for libudev
libnm-core-public/ public API of libnm (libnm-core part)
libnm-core-intern/ internal API of libnm-core, used by libnm and daemon
libnm-core-impl/ implementation of libnm-core
libnm-core-aux-intern/ internal helper library on top of libnm-core (used by libnm-core itself)
libnm-core-aux-extern/ internal helper library on top of libnm-core (not used by libnm-core)
libnm-client-public/ public API of libnm (NMClient part)
libnm-client-impl/ implementation of libnm (NMClient)
libnm-client-aux-extern/ internal helper library on top of libnm (not used by libnm itself)
libnmc-base/ internal helper library for libnm clients
libnmc-setting/ internal helper library for setting connection profiles (used by nmcli)
libnmt-newt/ internal helper library for libnewt for nmtui
linux-headers/ extra Linux kernel UAPI headers
contrib/ sources that are not used by NetworkManager itself
tests/ unit tests that are not specific to one of the other directories
libnm-client-test/ internal helper library with test utils for libnm
c-list/ fork of c-util helper library for intrusive, doubly linked list
c-rbtree/ fork of c-util helper library for intrusive Red-Black Tree
c-siphash/ fork of c-util helper library for SIPHash24
c-stdaux/ fork of c-util general purpose helpers for standard C
n-acd/ fork of nettools IPv4 ACD library
n-dhcp4/ fork of nettools DHCPv4 library
libnm-systemd-core/ fork of systemd code as network library
libnm-systemd-shared/ fork of systemd code as general purpose library