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Martti MalmiandJohnathan Corgan
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Moves both AEAD layers (ChaCha20-Poly1305, one round per layer per packet) plus the sendmsg syscall off the rx_loop task onto a per-shard worker pool, adds per-peer connect(2)-ed UDP with SO_REUSEPORT, and uses Linux UDP GSO (sendmsg+UDP_SEGMENT — kernel splits one super-skb into N on-the-wire datagrams in a single TX-stack walk) when packets in a batch are uniform-size. Same kernel primitive WireGuard's in-kernel module and BoringTun use to hit 2.5–3.2 Gbps single-stream. Single TCP stream on a 5-node docker-bridge mesh, 5 x 15 s x P=1: A→D: 1379 → 2708 Mbps (1.96x, RTT +0.12 ms) A→E: 1394 → 2663 Mbps (1.91x, RTT +0.11 ms) E→A: 1406 → 2624 Mbps (1.87x, RTT +0.19 ms) Static-peer pairs only — every CoV under 3%, 0 outliers, 0% ICMP loss. The ~+100 µs RTT is the worker queue handoff cost; AEAD + sendmmsg now run on a separate core in exchange. What lands: - src/node/encrypt_worker.rs: std::thread + crossbeam_channel workers; hash-by-destination dispatch pins a TCP flow to one worker so wire ordering is preserved; per-worker sendmmsg(2) batching up to 32; Linux uses sendmsg(2)+UDP_SEGMENT when packets in a group are uniform-size. - src/node/decrypt_worker.rs: receive-side mirror. Each shard owns its session's recv cipher + replay window in a thread-local HashMap (no shared RwLock/Mutex). Sessions are handed off at promote_connection and re-registered on K-bit flip / rekey cutover. - src/node/handlers/session.rs try_send_session_data_pipelined: FSP+FMP both seal in-place in the worker on one wire-buffer alloc; no intermediate inner_plaintext / fsp_payload Vecs. - src/transport/udp/connected_peer.rs + peer_drain.rs: per-peer connect(2)-ed UDP socket with SO_REUSEPORT (set on the listen socket too — without that, EADDRINUSE on activation and every packet falls back to the wildcard path); the worker sends with msg_name=NULL and the kernel uses its cached 5-tuple. Tick- driven activation in handlers/connected_udp.rs, idempotent. - src/transport/udp/mod.rs: mem::replace the recvmmsg backing buffer instead of buf.to_vec() per packet — single pointer swap, no MTU-sized memcpy. - src/protocol/link.rs SessionDatagramRef: zero-copy borrowed view used by handle_session_datagram for the bulk local-delivery path; handle_session_payload takes the borrowed payload directly (no payload[35..].to_vec()). - src/transport/mod.rs TransportAddr::from_socket_addr: collapses the two-alloc from_string(addr.to_string()) pattern to one. - src/node/handlers/rx_loop.rs: decrypt-fallback drain promoted ahead of packet_rx in the select! (TCP ACK starvation fix); interleaved fallback drain every 32 packets inside the rx burst loop. - noise::Session: send_cipher_clone / recv_cipher_clone / recv_replay_snapshot_owned / take_send_counter / accept_replay so off-task workers can hold a cloned cipher + reserved counter while the dispatcher keeps replay/counter sequencing serial. CipherState::cipher_clone returns a refcount-bumped LessSafeKey. AsyncUdpSocket: AsRawFd so workers issue raw sendmmsg / sendmsg without going through the tokio reactor. - Worker pool sizing: both default to num_cpus, overridable via FIPS_ENCRYPT_WORKERS=N / FIPS_DECRYPT_WORKERS=N. Per-peer connected UDP can be disabled via FIPS_CONNECTED_UDP=0. - src/perf_profile.rs: optional per-stage timing reporter under FIPS_PERF=1 (or FIPS_PIPELINE_TRACE=1). Off by default; zero overhead when disabled. - All cfg(unix)-gated. Windows continues on the existing tokio- based send/recv. Decrypt worker session lifecycle: - Node::unregister_decrypt_worker_session mirrors the existing register helper. Wired at the two natural sites that already iterate peers_by_index: the rekey drain-completion block in handlers/rekey.rs (drops the worker entry for the old our_index once the drain window has expired and the cache_key is unreachable to any in-flight OLD-K packet), and remove_active_peer in handlers/dispatch.rs (drops the worker entry for each of the four index slots: current, rekey, pending, previous). Only our_index is normally registered; unregister_session is fire- and-forget for missing entries, so calling unconditionally on all four slots is correct and bounds the cleanup without per- slot accounting. Without these callers the per-worker sessions HashMap and the Node's decrypt_registered_sessions set would grow monotonically per rekey on long-lived peers. Testing: - testing/static/scripts/bench-multirun.sh: multi-run iperf3 + ping bench. N reruns (default 5), median / min / max / CoV % / per-run outlier flag, avg ping RTT, ICMP loss %, TCP retransmit total. Plain client→dest labels + topology header. Pre-bench peer-convergence check (FIPS_BENCH_CONVERGE_SECS, default 15); per-path route verification via stats.bytes_sent deltas — fails fast if traffic exits via a non-static-peer link. - testing/static/docker-compose.yml: passes FIPS_ENCRYPT_WORKERS / FIPS_DECRYPT_WORKERS / FIPS_PERF through to containers for A/B benchmarking without rebuilds. - testing/static/scripts/iperf-test.sh: same plain client→dest labels + topology header (was multihop/direct/N hop, which conflated topology distance with on-wire path). - .config/nextest.toml: synthetic UDP node tests serialized through a max-threads=1 test group. Localhost handshakes drop on shared CI runners under parallel load; one-at-a-time keeps assertions reliable. - src/node/tests/spanning_tree.rs: repair_missing_edge_handshakes — retries up to 5 times for synthetic edges whose msg1 was dropped, with a drain after each edge retry instead of after each attempt's full burst. - src/node/decrypt_worker.rs::tests: two unit tests asserting WorkerMsg::UnregisterSession removes the worker-thread session HashMap entry (handle_msg_unregister_session_removes_entry) and is a no-op for never-seen cache_keys (handle_msg_unregister_session_idempotent_on_unknown_key), which is the safety invariant the unconditional unregister calls at the four index slots in remove_active_peer rely on. - src/node/encrypt_worker.rs::unix_tests pipelined_send_wire_layout_roundtrips_canonical_decoders: mirrors the encoder geometry of try_send_session_data_pipelined (no coords, the common established-session path), runs the worker's real seal + send via flush_direct_batch_sync, and decodes the resulting wire packet using only canonical receive-side decoders (EncryptedHeader::parse, SessionDatagramRef::decode, FSP header parse, noise::open). Any divergence between the hand-rolled encoder offsets (fsp_aad_offset, fsp_plaintext_offset) and the decoders fails at one of the parse / open / decode steps before the inner-plaintext assertion fires. Complements the existing fsp_preseal_runs_before_outer_fmp_seal test which covers the seal-ordering invariant with synthetic headers but does not exercise the wire-layout invariant. CHANGELOG.md [Unreleased] # Changed entry added describing the worker-pool threading model, hash-by-destination dispatch, sendmmsg/UDP_GSO, per-peer connected UDP, the operator-facing env vars, and the bench numbers above. Cherry-picks from mmalmi/master (paths translated from crates/fips-core/src/ to src/): 9b7c723, 0deb5cb, 13f7339, e036c0e, 3740a68, 3792f83, 8510193, 4910b07, e53f545, e4e2896, 5fe4af5, 1d01ada, 8c37008, e12469e, 6eb2860. Co-authored-by: Johnathan Corgan <johnathan@corganlabs.com>
FIPS Testing
Integration and simulation test harnesses for FIPS, using Docker containers running the full protocol stack.
Test Harnesses
static/ -- Static Docker Network
Fixed topologies with manual scripts for building, config generation, connectivity tests (ping, iperf), and network impairment (netem). Useful for deterministic debugging and validating specific topology configurations.
| Topology | Nodes | Transport | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| mesh | 5 | UDP | Sparse mesh, 6 links, multi-hop |
| chain | 5 | UDP | Linear chain, max 4-hop paths |
| mesh-public | 5+1 | UDP | Mesh with external public node |
| tcp-chain | 3 | TCP | Linear chain over TCP (port 8443) |
| rekey | 5 | UDP | Rekey integration test topology |
tor/ -- Tor Transport Integration
End-to-end Tor transport testing with Docker containers running real Tor daemons. Requires internet access for Tor bootstrapping.
| Scenario | Description |
|---|---|
| socks5-outbound | Outbound SOCKS5 connections through Tor to clearnet peer |
| directory-mode | Inbound via HiddenServiceDir onion service (co-located) |
nat/ -- NAT Traversal Lab
Real Docker NAT traversal tests for the Nostr/STUN bootstrap path,
using router containers with iptables-based NAT, a local Nostr relay,
and a local STUN responder.
| Scenario | Description |
|---|---|
| cone | Two NATed peers establish a UDP traversal path |
| symmetric | UDP traversal fails under symmetric NAT, TCP fallback wins |
| lan | Peers on the same LAN prefer local addresses over reflexive |
chaos/ -- Stochastic Simulation
Automated network testing with configurable node counts, topology algorithms (random geometric, Erdos-Renyi, chain, explicit), and fault injection (netem mutation, link flaps, traffic generation, node churn). 20 scenarios covering general stress testing, cost-based parent selection, mixed link technologies (fiber/Bluetooth/WiFi), transport-specific validation (UDP, TCP, Ethernet), and ECN/congestion testing. Scenarios are defined in YAML and executed via a Python harness that manages the full lifecycle: topology generation, Docker orchestration, fault scheduling, log collection, and analysis.