linux-stable.git/net/tipc/link.c, branch v4.2

tipc: purge backlog queue counters when broadcast link is reset

2015-06-28T23:43:02+00:00

In commit 1f66d161ab3d8b518903fa6c3f9c1f48d6919e74
("tipc: introduce starvation free send algorithm")
we introduced a counter per priority level for buffers
in the link backlog queue. We also introduced a new
function tipc_link_purge_backlog(), to reset these
counters to zero when the link is reset.

Unfortunately, we missed to call this function when
the broadcast link is reset, with the result that the
values of these counters might be permanently skewed
when new nodes are attached. This may in the worst case
lead to permananent, but spurious, broadcast link
congestion, where no broadcast packets can be sent at
all.

We fix this bug with this commit.

Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

tipc: fix bug in link protocol message create function

2015-05-26T23:43:03+00:00

In commit dd3f9e70f59f43a5712eba9cf3ee4f1e6999540c
("tipc: add packet sequence number at instant of transmission") we
made a change with the consequence that packets in the link backlog
queue don't contain valid sequence numbers.

However, when we create a link protocol message, we still use the
sequence number of the first packet in the backlog, if there is any,
as "next_sent" indicator in the message. This may entail unnecessary
retransissions or stale packet transmission when there is very low
traffic on the link.

This commit fixes this issue by only using the current value of
tipc_link::snd_nxt as indicator.

Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

tipc: add packet sequence number at instant of transmission

2015-05-14T16:24:46+00:00

Currently, the packet sequence number is updated and added to each
packet at the moment a packet is added to the link backlog queue.
This is wasteful, since it forces the code to traverse the send
packet list packet by packet when adding them to the backlog queue.
It would be better to just splice the whole packet list into the
backlog queue when that is the right action to do.

In this commit, we do this change. Also, since the sequence numbers
cannot now be assigned to the packets at the moment they are added
the backlog queue, we do instead calculate and add them at the moment
of transmission, when the backlog queue has to be traversed anyway.
We do this in the function tipc_link_push_packet().

Reviewed-by: Erik Hugne 
Reviewed-by: Ying Xue 
Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

tipc: improve link congestion algorithm

2015-05-14T16:24:46+00:00

The link congestion algorithm used until now implies two problems.

- It is too generous towards lower-level messages in situations of high
  load by giving "absolute" bandwidth guarantees to the different
  priority levels. LOW traffic is guaranteed 10%, MEDIUM is guaranted
  20%, HIGH is guaranteed 30%, and CRITICAL is guaranteed 40% of the
  available bandwidth. But, in the absence of higher level traffic, the
  ratio between two distinct levels becomes unreasonable. E.g. if there
  is only LOW and MEDIUM traffic on a system, the former is guaranteed
  1/3 of the bandwidth, and the latter 2/3. This again means that if
  there is e.g. one LOW user and 10 MEDIUM users, the  former will have
  33.3% of the bandwidth, and the others will have to compete for the
  remainder, i.e. each will end up with 6.7% of the capacity.

- Packets of type MSG_BUNDLER are created at SYSTEM importance level,
  but only after the packets bundled into it have passed the congestion
  test for their own respective levels. Since bundled packets don't
  result in incrementing the level counter for their own importance,
  only occasionally for the SYSTEM level counter, they do in practice
  obtain SYSTEM level importance. Hence, the current implementation
  provides a gap in the congestion algorithm that in the worst case
  may lead to a link reset.

We now refine the congestion algorithm as follows:

- A message is accepted to the link backlog only if its own level
  counter, and all superior level counters, permit it.

- The importance of a created bundle packet is set according to its
  contents. A bundle packet created from messges at levels LOW to
  CRITICAL is given importance level CRITICAL, while a bundle created
  from a SYSTEM level message is given importance SYSTEM. In the latter
  case only subsequent SYSTEM level messages are allowed to be bundled
  into it.

This solves the first problem described above, by making the bandwidth
guarantee relative to the total number of users at all levels; only
the upper limit for each level remains absolute. In the example
described above, the single LOW user would use 1/11th of the bandwidth,
the same as each of the ten MEDIUM users, but he still has the same
guarantee against starvation as the latter ones.

The fix also solves the second problem. If the CRITICAL level is filled
up by bundle packets of that level, no lower level packets will be
accepted any more.

Suggested-by: Gergely Kiss 
Reviewed-by: Ying Xue 
Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

tipc: simplify link supervision checkpointing

2015-05-14T16:24:46+00:00

We change the sequence number checkpointing that is performed
by the timer in order to discover if the peer is active. Currently,
we store a checkpoint of the next expected sequence number "rcv_nxt"
at each timer expiration, and compare it to the current expected
number at next timeout expiration. Instead, we now use the already
existing field "silent_intv_cnt" for this task. We step the counter
at each timeout expiration, and zero it at each valid received packet.
If no valid packet has been received from the peer after "abort_limit"
number of silent timer intervals, the link is declared faulty and reset.

We also remove the multiple instances of timer activation from inside
the FSM function "link_state_event()", and now do it at only one place;
at the end of the timer function itself.

Reviewed-by: Erik Hugne 
Reviewed-by: Ying Xue 
Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

tipc: rename fields in struct tipc_link

2015-05-14T16:24:46+00:00

We rename some fields in struct tipc_link, in order to give them more
descriptive names:

next_in_no -> rcv_nxt
next_out_no-> snd_nxt
fsm_msg_cnt-> silent_intv_cnt
cont_intv  -> keepalive_intv
last_retransmitted -> last_retransm

There are no functional changes in this commit.

Reviewed-by: Erik Hugne 
Reviewed-by: Ying Xue 
Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

tipc: simplify packet sequence number handling

2015-05-14T16:24:46+00:00

Although the sequence number in the TIPC protocol is 16 bits, we have
until now stored it internally as an unsigned 32 bits integer.
We got around this by always doing explicit modulo-65535 operations
whenever we need to access a sequence number.

We now make the incoming and outgoing sequence numbers to unsigned
16-bit integers, and remove the modulo operations where applicable.

We also move the arithmetic inline functions for 16 bit integers
to core.h, and the function buf_seqno() to msg.h, so they can easily
be accessed from anywhere in the code.

Reviewed-by: Erik Hugne 
Reviewed-by: Ying Xue 
Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

tipc: simplify link timer handling

2015-05-14T16:24:45+00:00

Prior to this commit, the link timer has been running at a "continuity
interval" of configured link tolerance/4. When a timer wakes up and
discovers that there has been no sign of life from the peer during the
previous interval, it divides its own timer interval by another factor
four, and starts sending one probe per new interval. When the configured
link tolerance time has passed without answer, i.e. after 16 unacked
probes, the link is declared faulty and reset.

This is unnecessary complex. It is sufficient to continue with the
original continuity interval, and instead reset the link after four
missed probe responses. This makes the timer handling in the link
simpler, and opens up for some planned later changes in this area.
This commit implements this change.

Reviewed-by: Richard Alpe 
Reviewed-by: Erik Hugne 
Reviewed-by: Ying Xue 
Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

tipc: simplify resetting and disabling of bearers

2015-05-14T16:24:45+00:00

Since commit 4b475e3f2f8e4e241de101c8240f1d74d0470494
("tipc: eliminate delayed link deletion at link failover") the extra
boolean parameter "shutting_down" is not any longer needed for the
functions bearer_disable() and tipc_link_delete_list().

Furhermore, the function tipc_link_reset_links(), called from
bearer_reset()  is now unnecessary. We can just as well delete
all the links, as we do in bearer_disable(), and start over with
creating new links.

This commit introduces those changes.

Reviewed-by: Erik Hugne 
Reviewed-by: Ying Xue 
Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

tipc: add broadcast link window set/get to nl api

2015-05-09T20:40:02+00:00

Add the ability to get or set the broadcast link window through the
new netlink API. The functionality was unintentionally missing from
the new netlink API. Adding this means that we also fix the breakage
in the old API when coming through the compat layer.

Fixes: 37e2d4843f9e (tipc: convert legacy nl link prop set to nl compat)
Reported-by: Tomi Ollila 
Signed-off-by: Richard Alpe 
Reviewed-by: Erik Hugne 
Reviewed-by: Ying Xue 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller