We noticed that the number of memory allocations LightHouse.HandleRequest creates for each call can seriously impact performance for high traffic lighthouses. This PR introduces a benchmark in the first commit and then optimizes memory usage by creating a LightHouseHandler struct. This struct allows us to re-use memory between each lighthouse request (one instance per UDP listener go-routine).
* Remove unused (*udpConn).Read method
* Align linux UDP performance optimizations with configuration
While attempting to run nebula on an older Synology NAS, it became
apparent that some of the performance optimizations effectively
block support for older kernels. The recvmmsg syscall was added in
linux kernel 2.6.33, and the Synology DS212j (among other models)
is pinned to 2.6.32.12.
Similarly, SO_REUSEPORT was added to the kernel in the 3.9 cycle.
While this option has been backported into some older trees, it
is also missing from the Synology kernel.
This commit allows nebula to be run on linux devices with older
kernels if the config options are set up with a single listener
and a UDP batch size of 1.
* Use golang.org/x/sys/unix for _linux.go sources
To support builds on GOARCH=386 and possibly elsewhere, it's necessary
to use the x/sys/unix package instead of the syscall package. This is
because the syscall package is frozen and does not support
SYS_GETSOCKNAME, SYS_RECVFROM, nor SYS_SENDTO for GOARCH=386.
This commit alone doesn't add support for 386 builds, just gets things
onto x/sys/unix so that it's possible.
The remaining uses of the syscall package relate to signals, which
cannot be switched to the x/sys/unix package at this time. Windows
support breaks, so they can either continue using the syscall package
(it's frozen, this is safe for Go 1.x at minimum), or something can be
written to just use both windows- and unix-compatible signals.
* Add linux-386, ppc64le targets to Makefile
Because 'linux' is linux-amd64 already, just add linux-386 and
linux-ppc64le targets to distinguish them. Would rename the linux
target but that might break existing uses.
Wade Simmons