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Allan Stephens
7a54d4a99d tipc: Major redesign of broadcast link ACK/NACK algorithms
Completely redesigns broadcast link ACK and NACK mechanisms to prevent
spurious retransmit requests in dual LAN networks, and to prevent the
broadcast link from stalling due to the failure of a receiving node to
acknowledge receiving a broadcast message or request its retransmission.

Note: These changes only impact the timing of when ACK and NACK messages
are sent, and not the basic broadcast link protocol itself, so inter-
operability with nodes using the "classic" algorithms is maintained.

The revised algorithms are as follows:

1) An explicit ACK message is still sent after receiving 16 in-sequence
messages, and implicit ACK information continues to be carried in other
unicast link message headers (including link state messages).  However,
the timing of explicit ACKs is now based on the receiving node's absolute
network address rather than its relative network address to ensure that
the failure of another node does not delay the ACK beyond its 16 message
target.

2) A NACK message is now typically sent only when a message gap persists
for two consecutive incoming link state messages; this ensures that a
suspected gap is not confirmed until both LANs in a dual LAN network have
had an opportunity to deliver the message, thereby preventing spurious NACKs.
A NACK message can also be generated by the arrival of a single link state
message, if the deferred queue is so big that the current message gap
cannot be the result of "normal" mis-ordering due to the use of dual LANs
(or one LAN using a bonded interface). Since link state messages typically
arrive at different nodes at different times the problem of multiple nodes
issuing identical NACKs simultaneously is inherently avoided.

3) Nodes continue to "peek" at NACK messages sent by other nodes. If
another node requests retransmission of a message gap suspected (but not
yet confirmed) by the peeking node, the peeking node forgets about the
gap and does not generate a duplicate retransmit request. (If the peeking
node subsequently fails to receive the lost message, later link state
messages will cause it to rediscover and confirm the gap and send another
NACK.)

4) Message gap "equality" is now determined by the start of the gap only.
This is sufficient to deal with the most common cases of message loss,
and eliminates the need for complex end of gap computations.

5) A peeking node no longer tries to determine whether it should send a
complementary NACK, since the most common cases of message loss don't
require it to be sent. Consequently, the node no longer examines the
"broadcast tag" field of a NACK message when peeking.

Signed-off-by: Allan Stephens <allan.stephens@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2012-02-06 16:59:18 -05:00
Paul Gortmaker
4584310b4a tipc: rename struct port_list to struct tipc_port_list
Make this rename so that it is consistent with the majority
of the other tipc structs and to assist in removing any
ambiguity with other similar names in other subsystems.

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2011-12-29 21:53:29 -05:00
Allan Stephens
cd3decdfd1 tipc: Ensure broadcast link spinlock is held when updating node map
Fixes oversight that allowed broadcast link node map to be updated without
first taking the broadcast link spinlock that protects the map. As part
of this fix the node map has been incorporated into the broadcast link
structure to make the need for such protection more evident.

Signed-off-by: Allan Stephens <allan.stephens@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2011-12-27 11:33:48 -05:00
Allan Stephens
c47e9b9188 tipc: Eliminate dynamic allocation of broadcast link data structures
Creates global variables to hold the broadcast link's pseudo-bearer and
pseudo-link structures, rather than allocating them dynamically. There
is only a single instance of each structure, and changing over to static
allocation allows elimination of code to handle the cases where dynamic
allocation was unsuccessful.

The memset in the teardown code may look like they aren't used, but
the same teardown code is run when there is a non-fatal error at
init-time, so that stale data isn't present when the user fixes the
cause of the soft error.

Signed-off-by: Allan Stephens <allan.stephens@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2011-12-27 11:33:47 -05:00
Allan Stephens
23f0ff906a tipc: Remove non-executable code to handle broadcast bearer congestion
Eliminates code associated with the sending of unsent broadcast link
traffic when the broadcast pseudo-bearer becomes unblocked following a
temporary congestion situation. This code is non-executable because the
broadcast pseudo-bearer never becomes blocked [see tipc_bcbearer_send()].

Signed-off-by: Allan Stephens <allan.stephens@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2011-09-01 11:16:36 -04:00
Allan Stephens
01d83eddc5 tipc: Clean up tracking of node requesting a broadcast retransmit
Allows the broadcast link to track the node that is requesting a retransmit
in a new field dedicated to that purpose. This replaces the existing
mechanism that (ab)uses an existing node structure linked list field to do
the tracking.

Signed-off-by: Allan Stephens <Allan.Stephens@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2011-02-23 18:05:12 -05:00
Allan Stephens
8f92df6ad4 tipc: Remove prototype code for supporting multiple clusters
Eliminates routines, data structures, and files that were intended
to allow TIPC to support a network containing multiple clusters.
Currently, TIPC supports only networks consisting of a single cluster
within a single zone, so this code is unnecessary.

Signed-off-by: Allan Stephens <Allan.Stephens@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-01-01 13:57:49 -08:00
stephen hemminger
31e3c3f6f1 tipc: cleanup function namespace
Do some cleanups of TIPC based on make namespacecheck
  1. Don't export unused symbols
  2. Eliminate dead code
  3. Make functions and variables local
  4. Rename buf_acquire to tipc_buf_acquire since it is used in several files

Compile tested only.
This make break out of tree kernel modules that depend on TIPC routines.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Acked-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com>
Acked-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-10-16 11:13:24 -07:00
Allan Stephens
43608edc2d tipc: Reduce footprint by un-inlining port list routines
Converts port list inline routines that are more than one line into
standard functions, thereby eliminating a significant amount of
repeated code.

Signed-off-by: Allan Stephens <allan.stephens@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-05-12 23:02:27 -07:00
Allan Stephens
3e22e62b62 tipc: Reduce footprint by un-inlining nmap routines
Converts nmap inline routines that are more than one line into standard
functions, thereby eliminating a significant amount of repeated code.

Signed-off-by: Allan Stephens <allan.stephens@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-05-12 23:02:27 -07:00
Allan Stephens
c68ca7b720 tipc: add tipc_ prefix to fcns targeted for un-inlining
These functions have enough code in them such that they
seem like sensible targets for un-inlining.  Prior to doing
that, this adds the tipc_ prefix to the functions, so that
in the event of a panic dump or similar, the subsystem from
which the functions come from is immediately clear.

Signed-off-by: Allan Stephens <allan.stephens@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-05-12 23:02:25 -07:00
Stephen Hemminger
4b704d59d6 tipc: fix non-const printf format arguments
Fix warnings from current gcc about using non-const strings as printf
args in TIPC. Compile tested only (not a TIPC user).

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-18 19:11:29 -07:00
Julia Lawall
6c614a5020 net/tipc/bcast.h: use ARRAY_SIZE
ARRAY_SIZE is more concise to use when the size of an array is divided by
the size of its type or the size of its first element.

The semantic patch that makes this change is as follows:
(http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/)

// <smpl>
@i@
@@

#include <linux/kernel.h>

@depends on i using "paren.iso"@
type T;
T[] E;
@@

- (sizeof(E)/sizeof(T))
+ ARRAY_SIZE(E)
// </smpl>

Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-01-11 00:06:33 -08:00
David S. Miller
6c00055a81 tipc: Don't use structure names which easily globally conflict.
Andrew Morton reported a build failure on sparc32, because TIPC
uses names like "struct node" and there is a like named data
structure defined in linux/node.h

This just regexp replaces "struct node*" to "struct tipc_node*"
to avoid this and any future similar problems.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-09-02 23:38:32 -07:00
Ilpo Järvinen
86121fe5b4 [TIPC]: Kill unused static inline (x5)
All these static inlines are unused:

in_own_zone     1 (net/tipc/addr.h)
msg_dataoctet   1 (net/tipc/msg.h)
msg_direct      1 (include/net/tipc/tipc_msg.h)
msg_options     1 (include/net/tipc/tipc_msg.h)
tipc_nmap_get   1 (net/tipc/bcast.h)

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-02-07 18:17:13 -08:00
YOSHIFUJI Hideaki
c430728526 [NET] TIPC: Fix whitespace errors.
Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-02-10 23:20:15 -08:00
Allan Stephens
a10bd924a4 [TIPC]: Enhanced & cleaned up system messages; fixed 2 obscure memory leaks.
Signed-off-by: Allan Stephens <allan.stephens@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Per Liden <per.liden@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-06-25 23:52:17 -07:00
Per Liden
4323add677 [TIPC] Avoid polluting the global namespace
This patch adds a tipc_ prefix to all externally visible symbols.

Signed-off-by: Per Liden <per.liden@ericsson.com>
2006-01-18 00:45:16 +01:00
Per Liden
9da1c8b694 [TIPC] Update of file headers
The copyright statements from different parts of Ericsson
have been merged into one.

Signed-off-by: Per Liden <per.liden@nospam.ericsson.com>
2006-01-12 14:06:38 -08:00
Per Liden
9ea1fd3c1a [TIPC] License header update
The license header in each file now more clearly state that this
code is licensed under a dual BSD/GPL. Before this was only
evident if you looked at the MODULE_LICENSE line in core.c.

Signed-off-by: Per Liden <per.liden@nospam.ericsson.com>
2006-01-12 14:06:36 -08:00
Per Liden
b97bf3fd8f [TIPC] Initial merge
TIPC (Transparent Inter Process Communication) is a protocol designed for
intra cluster communication. For more information see
http://tipc.sourceforge.net

Signed-off-by: Per Liden <per.liden@nospam.ericsson.com>
2006-01-12 14:06:31 -08:00