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Bring back redirect route expiration.

Description

Bring back redirect route expiration.

Redirect (and temporal) route expiration was broken a while ago.
This change brings route expiration back, with unified IPv4/IPv6 handling code.

It introduces net.inet.icmp.redirtimeout sysctl, allowing to set
an expiration time for redirected routes. It defaults to 10 minutes,
analogues with net.inet6.icmp6.redirtimeout.

Implementation uses separate file, route_temporal.c, as route.c is already
bloated with tons of different functions.
Internally, expiration is implemented as an per-rnh callout scheduled when
route with non-zero rt_expire time is added or rt_expire is changed.
It does not add any overhead when no temporal routes are present.

Callout traverses entire routing tree under wlock, scheduling expired routes
for deletion and calculating the next time it needs to be run. The rationale
for such implemention is the following: typically workloads requiring large
amount of routes have redirects turned off already, while the systems with
small amount of routes will not inhibit large overhead during tree traversal.

This changes also fixes netstat -rn display of route expiration time, which
has been broken since the conversion from kread() to sysctl.

Reviewed by: bz
MFC after: 3 weeks
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D23075

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melifaroAuthored on
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bz
Differential Revision
D23075: Bring back redirect route expiration.
Parents
rS356983: Make in_pcbladdr() require network epoch entered by its callers. Together
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