The network device index currently serves two purposes: acting as a
sequential index for network device names ("net0", "net1", etc), and
acting as an opaque unique integer identifier used in socket address
scope IDs.
There is no particular need for these usages to be linked, and it can
lead to situations in which devices are named unexpectedly. For
example: if a system has two network devices "net0" and "net1", a VLAN
is created as "net1-42", and then a USB NIC is connected, then the USB
NIC will be named "net3" rather than the expected "net2" since the
VLAN device "net1-42" will have consumed an index.
Separate the usages: rename the "index" field to "scope_id" (matching
its one and only use case), and assign the name without reference to
the scope ID by finding the first unused name. For consistency,
assign the scope ID by similarly finding the first unused scope ID.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
The peer discovery time has a significant impact on the overall
PeerDist download speed, since each block requires an individual
discovery attempt. In most cases, a peer that responds for block N
will turn out to also respond for block N+1.
Assume that the most recently discovered peer (for any block) probably
has a copy of the next block to be discovered, thereby allowing the
peer download attempt to begin immediately.
In the case that this assumption is incorrect, the existing error
recovery path will allow for fallback to newly discovered peers (or to
the origin server).
Suggested-by: Andreas Hammarskjöld <junior@2PintSoftware.com>
Tested-by: Andreas Hammarskjöld <junior@2PintSoftware.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Allow a PeerDist hosted cache server to be specified via the
${peerhost} setting, e.g.:
# Use 192.168.0.1 as hosted cache server
set peerhost 192.168.0.1
Note that this simply treats the hosted cache server as a permanently
discovered peer for all segments.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Record and report the number of peers (calculated as the maximum
number of peers discovered for a block's segment at the time that the
block download is complete), and the percentage of blocks retrieved
from peers rather than from the origin server.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Michael Brown
David Decotigny