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KKRainbow 021f523431 refactor(core): separate portable core from native runtime (#2451)
Create easytier-core as the portable owner of configuration,
connectivity, tunnels, peer and routing state, gateways, management,
the data plane, and instance lifecycle. Keep operating-system
integration, native protocol engines, process startup, and presentation
in easytier behind explicit Host capability adapters.

Create easytier-proto to own schemas, generated RPC types, descriptors,
and feature-scoped protocol slices. Remove runtime protobuf reflection
from core while preserving unknown route-peer fields across forwarding.

Normalize instance construction through CoreInstance, CoreHostAdapters,
CoreProcessRuntime, and InstanceManager. Make the runtime config store
the only authoritative mutable configuration after startup.

Move the portable TCP/UDP data plane into core and extract a generic
OperationBroker for completion, cancellation, disposal, and capacity
accounting. Expose the session-based FFI v2 completion API and keep the
WASI guest ABI, wire schemas, and adapters with core.

Migrate CLI, GUI, web, FFI, Android JNI, OHOS, uptime, and mobile
consumers to the shared manager and core state. Add explicit user/web
config ownership and revision-aware web reconciliation.

Preserve configuration, wire, and management behavior while fixing
regressions discovered by the full platform and integration matrix:

- inherit advertised relay capabilities in foreign networks;
- refresh OSPF peer state immediately after runtime config changes;
- restore CLI GlobalCtx event output without forcing GUI logging;
- retain legacy encryption names and standalone RPC tunnel metadata;
- restore ICMP host composition and fragmented UDP handling;
- use portable 64-bit atomics on 32-bit MIPS targets; and
- retain discarded operations until late cancellation completes.

Validate the refactor across 45 GitHub checks, including Linux, macOS,
Windows, FreeBSD, web, GUI, Android, OHOS, feature profiles, and
three-node and subnet-proxy integration tests.

BREAKING CHANGE: internal Rust module paths are not preserved. Legacy
native data-plane APIs are replaced by the session-based FFI v2 API.
The dedicated Android data-plane wrapper is removed.
2026-07-26 15:41:55 +08:00

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Native data-plane ABI v2

The native data-plane ABI is a thin adapter over the instance-owned DataPlaneSession. It does not own sockets, operation state, completion queues, routing policy, or timeouts.

Conventions

  • Every immediate call returns 0 on success or a negative DataPlaneErrorKind value on failure.
  • data_plane_completion_wait returns 1 when a completion is ready, 0 on timeout or session close, and a negative error value on failure.
  • data_plane_completion_drain returns a non-negative descriptor count or a negative error value.
  • Handle zero is invalid.
  • timeout_ms == UINT64_MAX means no deadline. Every other timeout starts when submission is accepted, including time spent waiting for an I/O direction lock.
  • Request and write bytes are copied before a submit call returns.
  • Socket-address fields use native-endian integers. Address bytes are in network order. ABI v2 accepts IPv4 only.

DataPlaneSocketAddr is:

typedef struct {
    uint16_t family;      /* 4 */
    uint16_t port;
    uint8_t address[16];  /* IPv4 uses the first four bytes */
} DataPlaneSocketAddr;

DataPlaneCompletion is:

typedef struct {
    uint64_t operation_id;
    uint16_t operation_kind;
    uint16_t status; /* 0 or DataPlaneErrorKind */
} DataPlaneCompletion;

Lifecycle

One native session may be open for an EasyTier instance at a time:

data_plane_session_open
  -> submit operations
  -> completion_wait
  -> completion_drain
  -> typed result_take
  -> resource_close / operation_free
data_plane_session_close

Closing a native session cancels and discards its outstanding operations and resources and wakes a thread blocked in data_plane_completion_wait.

The resource and operation IDs returned by the ABI belong to that session. They must always be passed together with the same session handle.

Completion and result ownership

Submission returns an operation ID immediately. Completion descriptors carry only the operation ID, operation kind, and terminal status. Draining a descriptor makes its typed result available but does not consume it.

data_plane_result_size reports the TCP-read or UDP-receive payload size. Typed result-take functions consume the result exactly once. If a supplied buffer is too small, they return -BufferTooSmall and leave the result available for a later call.

Call data_plane_operation_free when a drained result is intentionally abandoned. Call data_plane_resource_close for TCP streams, listeners, and UDP sockets.

Operation kinds

Value Operation
1 TCP connect
2 TCP bind
3 TCP accept
4 TCP read
5 TCP write
6 UDP bind
7 UDP receive
8 UDP send

The exported function families are:

  • data_plane_tcp_*_submit
  • data_plane_udp_*_submit
  • data_plane_completion_wait
  • data_plane_completion_drain
  • data_plane_*_result_take
  • data_plane_operation_cancel
  • data_plane_operation_free
  • data_plane_resource_close