algorithm selection) option to work on FreeBSD for free, starting with
FreeBSD 9. Update various documentation places to note this. One
specifies the congestion algorithm in the same was on Linux, although
the names of the algorithms are (at least in the general case) different.
"sysctl net.inet.tcp.cc" on FreeBSD provides a list of available
algorithms, which are implemented as loadable kernel modules.
Rename the --linux-congestion long option to --congestion (retaining
the old option as a deprecated synonym).
not including it.
To fix this required us to change config.h to iperf_config.h (to
avoid potential filename collisions with this generic name). Then
iperf.h could include this.
Adjust the existing header file inclusions to track this, and also
canonicalize their inclusion to be at the top of *.c files.
As with several other recent commits, don't check explicitly for an
OS platform, but rather detect the various API bits that are used
to implement CPU affinity setting.
We check at configure-time to see if IPV6_FLOWLABEL_MGR is defined
in <linux/in.6>, if it is we set a HAVE_FLOWLABEL CPP symbol to
turn on conditional compilation of the support for this feature.
Rather than checking for anything Linux-specific at configure-time,
see if TCP_CONGESTION is defined in <netinet/tcp.h> and if so define
a CPP variable HAVE_TCP_CONGESTION, which we then use to enable
conditional compilation of the code for this feature.
Rather than doing checks for platforms that we believe support SCTP,
instead look for an indication (notably the presence of <netinet/sctp.h>)
that it's supported. This makes the conditionals for SCTP more obvious.
In addition, it opens up the possibility that SCTP might work on some
new OS that's not FreeBSD or Linux.
This change may force some additional build-time requirements on Linux,
such as lksctp-tools-devel on CentOS / Fedora or libsctp-dev on
Ubuntu.
Committing this first cut for review and to enable testing on multiple
platforms. So far this works correctly on Linux (SCTP support) and
MacOS (no SCTP support).
This works for both client and server side (in the case of the server,
either for daemon or non-daemon mode).
Consistifies a few places that were using printf instead of iprintf.
Fixes Issue 119.
Note this option only has a long option flag; we're running out of
letters for short options.
Based heavily on a patch submitted in Issue 131 (SCTP support for
iperf); I added support for FreeBSD and did some other packaging and
documentation improvements.
We probably shouldn't tie SCTP support to looking specifically for
Linux or FreeBSD; we probably leave support enabled all the time if
possible, possibly with some configure-time checks.
We were computing and printing this in JSON output mode anyway; this
change just exposes this quantity in a human-friendly manner (better
than the first attempt at this) when doing normal output.
Resolves Issue 99 (Additional TCP_INFO items).
Mostly this change consists of adding FreeBSD-specific code to handle
this feature. The concepts and system calls are very similar to what's
already done for Linux. One difference is that on FreeBSD, the CPU
affinity mask is saved before -A processing and restored afterwards.
This causes a slight change to the function signatures for
iperf_setaffinity() and iperf_clearaffinity() (these functions
however are not documented as a part of the libiperf3 API).
Slightly improve some of the documentation for the -A command line
option, to hopefully stave off some of the questions about this
feature.
Mostly based on a submitted patch.
Issue: 128 (better error message for CPU affinity failure)
Submitted by: Susant Sahani <ssahani@redhat.com>
(It remains in the JSON output.)
We have some issues we need to resolve about the formatting and
representation of this (and other future values that we might be
adding).
Rip out the tcpi_sacked support...it doesn't really keep a cumulative
total of SACKs received like we thought it did (it's instantaneous
state).
Convert tcpi_snd_cwnd (originally expressed in segments) to octets before
printing.
Re-work internal APIs for functions to get stuff out of tcp_info...rather
than doing a getsockopt() call per value, grab the values out of a
saved copy of the tcp_info structure (which we were getting in almost
every case anyway).
Issue: 99 (Additional TCP_INFO items)
This functionality uses some setsockopt(2) calls that unfortunately
don't seem to have an analog on other platforms.
Slightly tweaked version of a patch that was...
Submitted by: ssahani@redhat.com
Issue: 40 (Option for setting Flow Label field in IPv6
header)
Possible related work still under consideration:
o Use syslog in daemon mode for output that would normally go to
stdout / stderr.
o Write a PID file.
This is basically the gist of Issue 105.
The user-visible parts are commented out or return a "not implemented
yet" error message. The other parts are harmless.
We'll come back to this once we figure out how exactly one sets
the Flow Label.
one is the new -Z flag.
- Fixed potential bug in net.c's Nread and Nwrite routines. If they
had ever needed to loop they would have read/written the wrong address,
due to incorrect pointer arithmetic - sizeof(void) is not 1. Fix
was to change the type of the buffer pointer to char*, which also
meant adding casts to some callers.
- Better checking for conflicts between command-line flags - now they
should no longer be order-dependent.
- Added a new -Z / --zerocopy flag, to use a "zero copy" method of
sending data, such as sendfile(2) instead of the usual write(2).
- Renumbered error enum to make inserting new ones easier.
