netgraph/ng_base: Allow larger BINARY2ASCII conversions

[donner]

Summary

In PR187835 larger data couldn't be converted from BINARY to ASCII. The code does reach an hardcoded limit.

This patch allocated the necessary memory dynamically starting with a value which is sufficient for almost all normal cases.

Test Plan

Try the example in the bug report.
Retry after the patch.

I did add some debugging output to the code to validate the resizing is working correctly:

/usr/src/sys/netgraph/ng_base.c:2834: Double bufSize=1024
/usr/src/sys/netgraph/ng_base.c:2834: Double bufSize=2048
/usr/src/sys/netgraph/ng_base.c:2834: Double bufSize=4096
/usr/src/sys/netgraph/ng_base.c:2834: Double bufSize=8192
/usr/src/sys/netgraph/ng_base.c:2834: Double bufSize=16384
/usr/src/sys/netgraph/ng_base.c:2834: Double bufSize=32768
/usr/src/sys/netgraph/ng_base.c:2834: Double bufSize=65536
/usr/src/sys/netgraph/ng_base.c:2834: Double bufSize=131072
/usr/src/sys/netgraph/ng_base.c:2834: Double bufSize=262144
/usr/src/sys/netgraph/ng_base.c:2834: Double bufSize=524288
/usr/src/sys/netgraph/ng_base.c:2834: Double bufSize=1048576

Of course, to transmit the data via the ng_socket, the buffer sizes needs to be adjusted manually.

net.graph.recvspace: 204800
net.graph.maxdgram: 204800

To transmit arbitary large data, it's better to change the ng_socket interface (incl. libnetgraph), but that is out of scope of this issue here.

[afedorov]

sys/netgraph/ng_base.c

2774

Do you really think that this is enough for almost all normal cases?
It seems that, only ng_bridge getstats return 80+ bytes per link.

[donner]

sys/netgraph/ng_base.c

2774

I tried it with a network for A10NSP termination incl. a (netgraph emulated) testbed for 12 double-tagged 10G-lines holding 400 CPEs with two vlans each.

  Type name   Number of living nodes
  ---------   ----------------------
        car     429
      patch      12
        tag      13
   one2many      13
     bridge       2
        bpf       1
        tee      13
vlan_rotate       1
       vlan     545
     eiface     962
     socket       2

Each bridge node holds about 430 connections.

I had not a single buffer expansion request during setup and debugging. Only "msg bridge: gettable" needs a buffer size of >1M.

So I'm pretty sure, that the 1k limit is sufficient for most use cases. Let's conserve kernel memory.

[donner]

sys/netgraph/ng_base.c

2774

40 CPEs. My fault.

[donner]

That are the numbers for 400 CPE connecting per line for 12 lines and 900 active clients (dhclient ngethxxx).

  Type name   Number of living nodes
  ---------   ----------------------
        car     452
      patch      12
        tag      13
   one2many      13
     bridge       2
        bpf       1
        tee      13
vlan_rotate       1
       vlan    4865
     eiface    9600
     socket       2

The default 1k buffer is sufficient to setup and operate this network.

[donner]

Updated to revision 358355.

[donner]

Rebase to r366170.

[donner]

Rebase after a long time