Two things kept an exporter from its peer. A table being gathered to
go out anew kept a map of every prefix heard, to let a later word on a
prefix supersede an earlier one, and dressed every set of attributes
before the first UPDATE went: a map insert and a parse-and-encode a
route that the peer waited on. And the session's queue took UPDATEs
one by one, a thousand at most, so the exporter stood at the queue
once a hundred kilobytes were in it, behind a writer that takes a
megabyte: the two took turns instead of running together.
The journal gives a table out shard by shard, each prefix once, and a
change meanwhile comes after the table as news of its own, so there is
no second word to keep track of while gathering: the map is gone, and
a prefix the peer is not to have is simply not gathered, as what it
held of it is withdrawn once the table is through. Each set is dressed
as its turn to go comes, so the first UPDATE goes once the table is
gathered; only when the gathered routes alone would be over the
peer's limit are the sets dressed first, to know which cannot be and
take their routes with them, so that none goes if too many would. The
UPDATEs for a set now go to the session in pieces of 64 KiB or so,
each of whole messages, and the queue takes 64 of those: a few
megabytes ahead of the writer, not a hundred kilobytes. The session
counts the messages in a piece by their headers.
Testing: the byte-for-byte test of the encoded UPDATEs now encodes
thirty thousand routes and checks the pieces are of whole messages
and of the size meant. The server tests, the integration tests, the
kernel tests and every lab phase pass. In the Linux VM, three rounds
alternating with the previous commit, a new peer's first UPDATE comes
1.8 s after its session is up instead of 3.1 s, and it has its four
million routes in 3.8 s instead of 4.1 s; the smaller of the two
routers' tables crosses in 3.0 s instead of 4.2 s and the larger in
5.0 s instead of 5.2 s, at the same CPU time.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
