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<entry>
<title>tipc: replace name table service range array with rb tree</title>
<updated>2018-04-01T02:19:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jon Maloy</name>
<email>jon.maloy@ericsson.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-03-29T21:20:41+00:00</published>
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The current design of the binding table has an unnecessary memory
consuming and complex data structure. It aggregates the service range
items into an array, which is expanded by a factor two every time it
becomes too small to hold a new item. Furthermore, the arrays never
shrink when the number of ranges diminishes.

We now replace this array with an RB tree that is holding the range
items as tree nodes, each range directly holding a list of bindings.

This, along with a few name changes, improves both readability and
volume of the code, as well as reducing memory consumption and hopefully
improving cache hit rate.

Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy &lt;jon.maloy@ericsson.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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The current design of the binding table has an unnecessary memory
consuming and complex data structure. It aggregates the service range
items into an array, which is expanded by a factor two every time it
becomes too small to hold a new item. Furthermore, the arrays never
shrink when the number of ranges diminishes.

We now replace this array with an RB tree that is holding the range
items as tree nodes, each range directly holding a list of bindings.

This, along with a few name changes, improves both readability and
volume of the code, as well as reducing memory consumption and hopefully
improving cache hit rate.

Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy &lt;jon.maloy@ericsson.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>tipc: handle collisions of 32-bit node address hash values</title>
<updated>2018-03-23T17:12:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jon Maloy</name>
<email>jon.maloy@ericsson.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-03-22T19:42:51+00:00</published>
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When a 32-bit node address is generated from a 128-bit identifier,
there is a risk of collisions which must be discovered and handled.

We do this as follows:
- We don't apply the generated address immediately to the node, but do
  instead initiate a 1 sec trial period to allow other cluster members
  to discover and handle such collisions.

- During the trial period the node periodically sends out a new type
  of message, DSC_TRIAL_MSG, using broadcast or emulated broadcast,
  to all the other nodes in the cluster.

- When a node is receiving such a message, it must check that the
  presented 32-bit identifier either is unused, or was used by the very
  same peer in a previous session. In both cases it accepts the request
  by not responding to it.

- If it finds that the same node has been up before using a different
  address, it responds with a DSC_TRIAL_FAIL_MSG containing that
  address.

- If it finds that the address has already been taken by some other
  node, it generates a new, unused address and returns it to the
  requester.

- During the trial period the requesting node must always be prepared
  to accept a failure message, i.e., a message where a peer suggests a
  different (or equal)  address to the one tried. In those cases it
  must apply the suggested value as trial address and restart the trial
  period.

This algorithm ensures that in the vast majority of cases a node will
have the same address before and after a reboot. If a legacy user
configures the address explicitly, there will be no trial period and
messages, so this protocol addition is completely backwards compatible.

Acked-by: Ying Xue &lt;ying.xue@windriver.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy &lt;jon.maloy@ericsson.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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When a 32-bit node address is generated from a 128-bit identifier,
there is a risk of collisions which must be discovered and handled.

We do this as follows:
- We don't apply the generated address immediately to the node, but do
  instead initiate a 1 sec trial period to allow other cluster members
  to discover and handle such collisions.

- During the trial period the node periodically sends out a new type
  of message, DSC_TRIAL_MSG, using broadcast or emulated broadcast,
  to all the other nodes in the cluster.

- When a node is receiving such a message, it must check that the
  presented 32-bit identifier either is unused, or was used by the very
  same peer in a previous session. In both cases it accepts the request
  by not responding to it.

- If it finds that the same node has been up before using a different
  address, it responds with a DSC_TRIAL_FAIL_MSG containing that
  address.

- If it finds that the address has already been taken by some other
  node, it generates a new, unused address and returns it to the
  requester.

- During the trial period the requesting node must always be prepared
  to accept a failure message, i.e., a message where a peer suggests a
  different (or equal)  address to the one tried. In those cases it
  must apply the suggested value as trial address and restart the trial
  period.

This algorithm ensures that in the vast majority of cases a node will
have the same address before and after a reboot. If a legacy user
configures the address explicitly, there will be no trial period and
messages, so this protocol addition is completely backwards compatible.

Acked-by: Ying Xue &lt;ying.xue@windriver.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy &lt;jon.maloy@ericsson.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>tipc: add 128-bit node identifier</title>
<updated>2018-03-23T17:12:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jon Maloy</name>
<email>jon.maloy@ericsson.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-03-22T19:42:50+00:00</published>
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We add a 128-bit node identity, as an alternative to the currently used
32-bit node address.

For the sake of compatibility and to minimize message header changes
we retain the existing 32-bit address field. When not set explicitly by
the user, this field will be filled with a hash value generated from the
much longer node identity, and be used as a shorthand value for the
latter.

We permit either the address or the identity to be set by configuration,
but not both, so when the address value is set by a legacy user the
corresponding 128-bit node identity is generated based on the that value.

Acked-by: Ying Xue &lt;ying.xue@windriver.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy &lt;jon.maloy@ericsson.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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We add a 128-bit node identity, as an alternative to the currently used
32-bit node address.

For the sake of compatibility and to minimize message header changes
we retain the existing 32-bit address field. When not set explicitly by
the user, this field will be filled with a hash value generated from the
much longer node identity, and be used as a shorthand value for the
latter.

We permit either the address or the identity to be set by configuration,
but not both, so when the address value is set by a legacy user the
corresponding 128-bit node identity is generated based on the that value.

Acked-by: Ying Xue &lt;ying.xue@windriver.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy &lt;jon.maloy@ericsson.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>tipc: allow closest-first lookup algorithm when legacy address is configured</title>
<updated>2018-03-23T17:12:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jon Maloy</name>
<email>jon.maloy@ericsson.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-03-22T19:42:48+00:00</published>
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The removal of an internal structure of the node address has an unwanted
side effect.
- Currently, if a user is sending an anycast message with destination
  domain 0, the tipc_namebl_translate() function will use the 'closest-
  first' algorithm to first look for a node local destination, and only
  when no such is found, will it resort to the cluster global 'round-
  robin' lookup algorithm.
- Current users can get around this, and enforce unconditional use of
  global round-robin by indicating a destination as Z.0.0 or Z.C.0.
- This option disappears when we make the node address flat, since the
  lookup algorithm has no way of recognizing this case. So, as long as
  there are node local destinations, the algorithm will always select
  one of those, and there is nothing the sender can do to change this.

We solve this by eliminating the 'closest-first' option, which was never
a good idea anyway, for non-legacy users, but only for those. To
distinguish between legacy users and non-legacy users we introduce a new
flag 'legacy_addr_format' in struct tipc_core, to be set when the user
configures a legacy-style Z.C.N node address. Hence, when a legacy user
indicates a zero lookup domain 'closest-first' is selected, and in all
other cases we use 'round-robin'.

Acked-by: Ying Xue &lt;ying.xue@windriver.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy &lt;jon.maloy@ericsson.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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The removal of an internal structure of the node address has an unwanted
side effect.
- Currently, if a user is sending an anycast message with destination
  domain 0, the tipc_namebl_translate() function will use the 'closest-
  first' algorithm to first look for a node local destination, and only
  when no such is found, will it resort to the cluster global 'round-
  robin' lookup algorithm.
- Current users can get around this, and enforce unconditional use of
  global round-robin by indicating a destination as Z.0.0 or Z.C.0.
- This option disappears when we make the node address flat, since the
  lookup algorithm has no way of recognizing this case. So, as long as
  there are node local destinations, the algorithm will always select
  one of those, and there is nothing the sender can do to change this.

We solve this by eliminating the 'closest-first' option, which was never
a good idea anyway, for non-legacy users, but only for those. To
distinguish between legacy users and non-legacy users we introduce a new
flag 'legacy_addr_format' in struct tipc_core, to be set when the user
configures a legacy-style Z.C.N node address. Hence, when a legacy user
indicates a zero lookup domain 'closest-first' is selected, and in all
other cases we use 'round-robin'.

Acked-by: Ying Xue &lt;ying.xue@windriver.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy &lt;jon.maloy@ericsson.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>tipc: remove zone publication list in name table</title>
<updated>2018-03-17T21:11:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jon Maloy</name>
<email>jon.maloy@ericsson.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-03-15T15:48:52+00:00</published>
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As a consequence of the previous commit we nan now eliminate zone scope
related lists in the name table. We start with name_table::publ_list[3],
which can now be replaced with two lists, one for node scope publications
and one for cluster scope publications.

Acked-by: Ying Xue &lt;ying.xue@windriver.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy &lt;jon.maloy@ericsson.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<pre>
As a consequence of the previous commit we nan now eliminate zone scope
related lists in the name table. We start with name_table::publ_list[3],
which can now be replaced with two lists, one for node scope publications
and one for cluster scope publications.

Acked-by: Ying Xue &lt;ying.xue@windriver.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy &lt;jon.maloy@ericsson.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>tipc: rename tipc_server to tipc_topsrv</title>
<updated>2018-02-16T20:26:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jon Maloy</name>
<email>jon.maloy@ericsson.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-02-15T09:40:51+00:00</published>
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We rename struct tipc_server to struct tipc_topsrv. This reflect its now
specialized role as topology server. Accoringly, we change or add function
prefixes to make it clearer which functionality those belong to.

There are no functional changes in this commit.

Acked-by: Ying.Xue &lt;ying.xue@windriver.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy &lt;jon.maloy@ericsson.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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We rename struct tipc_server to struct tipc_topsrv. This reflect its now
specialized role as topology server. Accoringly, we change or add function
prefixes to make it clearer which functionality those belong to.

There are no functional changes in this commit.

Acked-by: Ying.Xue &lt;ying.xue@windriver.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy &lt;jon.maloy@ericsson.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: tipc: remove unused hardirq.h</title>
<updated>2018-01-09T01:59:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Yang Shi</name>
<email>yang.s@alibaba-inc.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-01-08T19:52:54+00:00</published>
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Preempt counter APIs have been split out, currently, hardirq.h just
includes irq_enter/exit APIs which are not used by TIPC at all.

So, remove the unused hardirq.h.

Signed-off-by: Yang Shi &lt;yang.s@alibaba-inc.com&gt;
Acked-by: Ying Xue &lt;ying.xue@windriver.com&gt;
Tested-by: Ying Xue &lt;ying.xue@windriver.com&gt;
Cc: Jon Maloy &lt;jon.maloy@ericsson.com&gt;
Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Preempt counter APIs have been split out, currently, hardirq.h just
includes irq_enter/exit APIs which are not used by TIPC at all.

So, remove the unused hardirq.h.

Signed-off-by: Yang Shi &lt;yang.s@alibaba-inc.com&gt;
Acked-by: Ying Xue &lt;ying.xue@windriver.com&gt;
Tested-by: Ying Xue &lt;ying.xue@windriver.com&gt;
Cc: Jon Maloy &lt;jon.maloy@ericsson.com&gt;
Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>tipc: add ability to order and receive topology events in driver</title>
<updated>2017-10-13T15:46:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jon Maloy</name>
<email>jon.maloy@ericsson.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-10-13T09:04:17+00:00</published>
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As preparation for introducing communication groups, we add the ability
to issue topology subscriptions and receive topology events from kernel
space. This will make it possible for group member sockets to keep track
of other group members.

Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy &lt;jon.maloy@ericsson.com&gt;
Acked-by: Ying Xue &lt;ying.xue@windriver.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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As preparation for introducing communication groups, we add the ability
to issue topology subscriptions and receive topology events from kernel
space. This will make it possible for group member sockets to keep track
of other group members.

Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy &lt;jon.maloy@ericsson.com&gt;
Acked-by: Ying Xue &lt;ying.xue@windriver.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>netns: make struct pernet_operations::id unsigned int</title>
<updated>2016-11-18T15:59:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexey Dobriyan</name>
<email>adobriyan@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-11-17T01:58:21+00:00</published>
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Make struct pernet_operations::id unsigned.

There are 2 reasons to do so:

1)
This field is really an index into an zero based array and
thus is unsigned entity. Using negative value is out-of-bound
access by definition.

2)
On x86_64 unsigned 32-bit data which are mixed with pointers
via array indexing or offsets added or subtracted to pointers
are preffered to signed 32-bit data.

"int" being used as an array index needs to be sign-extended
to 64-bit before being used.

	void f(long *p, int i)
	{
		g(p[i]);
	}

  roughly translates to

	movsx	rsi, esi
	mov	rdi, [rsi+...]
	call 	g

MOVSX is 3 byte instruction which isn't necessary if the variable is
unsigned because x86_64 is zero extending by default.

Now, there is net_generic() function which, you guessed it right, uses
"int" as an array index:

	static inline void *net_generic(const struct net *net, int id)
	{
		...
		ptr = ng-&gt;ptr[id - 1];
		...
	}

And this function is used a lot, so those sign extensions add up.

Patch snipes ~1730 bytes on allyesconfig kernel (without all junk
messing with code generation):

	add/remove: 0/0 grow/shrink: 70/598 up/down: 396/-2126 (-1730)

Unfortunately some functions actually grow bigger.
This is a semmingly random artefact of code generation with register
allocator being used differently. gcc decides that some variable
needs to live in new r8+ registers and every access now requires REX
prefix. Or it is shifted into r12, so [r12+0] addressing mode has to be
used which is longer than [r8]

However, overall balance is in negative direction:

	add/remove: 0/0 grow/shrink: 70/598 up/down: 396/-2126 (-1730)
	function                                     old     new   delta
	nfsd4_lock                                  3886    3959     +73
	tipc_link_build_proto_msg                   1096    1140     +44
	mac80211_hwsim_new_radio                    2776    2808     +32
	tipc_mon_rcv                                1032    1058     +26
	svcauth_gss_legacy_init                     1413    1429     +16
	tipc_bcbase_select_primary                   379     392     +13
	nfsd4_exchange_id                           1247    1260     +13
	nfsd4_setclientid_confirm                    782     793     +11
		...
	put_client_renew_locked                      494     480     -14
	ip_set_sockfn_get                            730     716     -14
	geneve_sock_add                              829     813     -16
	nfsd4_sequence_done                          721     703     -18
	nlmclnt_lookup_host                          708     686     -22
	nfsd4_lockt                                 1085    1063     -22
	nfs_get_client                              1077    1050     -27
	tcf_bpf_init                                1106    1076     -30
	nfsd4_encode_fattr                          5997    5930     -67
	Total: Before=154856051, After=154854321, chg -0.00%

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Make struct pernet_operations::id unsigned.

There are 2 reasons to do so:

1)
This field is really an index into an zero based array and
thus is unsigned entity. Using negative value is out-of-bound
access by definition.

2)
On x86_64 unsigned 32-bit data which are mixed with pointers
via array indexing or offsets added or subtracted to pointers
are preffered to signed 32-bit data.

"int" being used as an array index needs to be sign-extended
to 64-bit before being used.

	void f(long *p, int i)
	{
		g(p[i]);
	}

  roughly translates to

	movsx	rsi, esi
	mov	rdi, [rsi+...]
	call 	g

MOVSX is 3 byte instruction which isn't necessary if the variable is
unsigned because x86_64 is zero extending by default.

Now, there is net_generic() function which, you guessed it right, uses
"int" as an array index:

	static inline void *net_generic(const struct net *net, int id)
	{
		...
		ptr = ng-&gt;ptr[id - 1];
		...
	}

And this function is used a lot, so those sign extensions add up.

Patch snipes ~1730 bytes on allyesconfig kernel (without all junk
messing with code generation):

	add/remove: 0/0 grow/shrink: 70/598 up/down: 396/-2126 (-1730)

Unfortunately some functions actually grow bigger.
This is a semmingly random artefact of code generation with register
allocator being used differently. gcc decides that some variable
needs to live in new r8+ registers and every access now requires REX
prefix. Or it is shifted into r12, so [r12+0] addressing mode has to be
used which is longer than [r8]

However, overall balance is in negative direction:

	add/remove: 0/0 grow/shrink: 70/598 up/down: 396/-2126 (-1730)
	function                                     old     new   delta
	nfsd4_lock                                  3886    3959     +73
	tipc_link_build_proto_msg                   1096    1140     +44
	mac80211_hwsim_new_radio                    2776    2808     +32
	tipc_mon_rcv                                1032    1058     +26
	svcauth_gss_legacy_init                     1413    1429     +16
	tipc_bcbase_select_primary                   379     392     +13
	nfsd4_exchange_id                           1247    1260     +13
	nfsd4_setclientid_confirm                    782     793     +11
		...
	put_client_renew_locked                      494     480     -14
	ip_set_sockfn_get                            730     716     -14
	geneve_sock_add                              829     813     -16
	nfsd4_sequence_done                          721     703     -18
	nlmclnt_lookup_host                          708     686     -22
	nfsd4_lockt                                 1085    1063     -22
	nfs_get_client                              1077    1050     -27
	tcf_bpf_init                                1106    1076     -30
	nfsd4_encode_fattr                          5997    5930     -67
	Total: Before=154856051, After=154854321, chg -0.00%

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>tipc: add neighbor monitoring framework</title>
<updated>2016-06-15T21:06:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jon Paul Maloy</name>
<email>jon.maloy@ericsson.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-06-14T00:46:22+00:00</published>
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TIPC based clusters are by default set up with full-mesh link
connectivity between all nodes. Those links are expected to provide
a short failure detection time, by default set to 1500 ms. Because
of this, the background load for neighbor monitoring in an N-node
cluster increases with a factor N on each node, while the overall
monitoring traffic through the network infrastructure increases at
a ~(N * (N - 1)) rate. Experience has shown that such clusters don't
scale well beyond ~100 nodes unless we significantly increase failure
discovery tolerance.

This commit introduces a framework and an algorithm that drastically
reduces this background load, while basically maintaining the original
failure detection times across the whole cluster. Using this algorithm,
background load will now grow at a rate of ~(2 * sqrt(N)) per node, and
at ~(2 * N * sqrt(N)) in traffic overhead. As an example, each node will
now have to actively monitor 38 neighbors in a 400-node cluster, instead
of as before 399.

This "Overlapping Ring Supervision Algorithm" is completely distributed
and employs no centralized or coordinated state. It goes as follows:

- Each node makes up a linearly ascending, circular list of all its N
  known neighbors, based on their TIPC node identity. This algorithm
  must be the same on all nodes.

- The node then selects the next M = sqrt(N) - 1 nodes downstream from
  itself in the list, and chooses to actively monitor those. This is
  called its "local monitoring domain".

- It creates a domain record describing the monitoring domain, and
  piggy-backs this in the data area of all neighbor monitoring messages
  (LINK_PROTOCOL/STATE) leaving that node. This means that all nodes in
  the cluster eventually (default within 400 ms) will learn about
  its monitoring domain.

- Whenever a node discovers a change in its local domain, e.g., a node
  has been added or has gone down, it creates and sends out a new
  version of its node record to inform all neighbors about the change.

- A node receiving a domain record from anybody outside its local domain
  matches this against its own list (which may not look the same), and
  chooses to not actively monitor those members of the received domain
  record that are also present in its own list. Instead, it relies on
  indications from the direct monitoring nodes if an indirectly
  monitored node has gone up or down. If a node is indicated lost, the
  receiving node temporarily activates its own direct monitoring towards
  that node in order to confirm, or not, that it is actually gone.

- Since each node is actively monitoring sqrt(N) downstream neighbors,
  each node is also actively monitored by the same number of upstream
  neighbors. This means that all non-direct monitoring nodes normally
  will receive sqrt(N) indications that a node is gone.

- A major drawback with ring monitoring is how it handles failures that
  cause massive network partitionings. If both a lost node and all its
  direct monitoring neighbors are inside the lost partition, the nodes in
  the remaining partition will never receive indications about the loss.
  To overcome this, each node also chooses to actively monitor some
  nodes outside its local domain. Those nodes are called remote domain
  "heads", and are selected in such a way that no node in the cluster
  will be more than two direct monitoring hops away. Because of this,
  each node, apart from monitoring the member of its local domain, will
  also typically monitor sqrt(N) remote head nodes.

- As an optimization, local list status, domain status and domain
  records are marked with a generation number. This saves senders from
  unnecessarily conveying  unaltered domain records, and receivers from
  performing unneeded re-adaptations of their node monitoring list, such
  as re-assigning domain heads.

- As a measure of caution we have added the possibility to disable the
  new algorithm through configuration. We do this by keeping a threshold
  value for the cluster size; a cluster that grows beyond this value
  will switch from full-mesh to ring monitoring, and vice versa when
  it shrinks below the value. This means that if the threshold is set to
  a value larger than any anticipated cluster size (default size is 32)
  the new algorithm is effectively disabled. A patch set for altering the
  threshold value and for listing the table contents will follow shortly.

- This change is fully backwards compatible.

Acked-by: Ying Xue &lt;ying.xue@windriver.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy &lt;jon.maloy@ericsson.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<pre>
TIPC based clusters are by default set up with full-mesh link
connectivity between all nodes. Those links are expected to provide
a short failure detection time, by default set to 1500 ms. Because
of this, the background load for neighbor monitoring in an N-node
cluster increases with a factor N on each node, while the overall
monitoring traffic through the network infrastructure increases at
a ~(N * (N - 1)) rate. Experience has shown that such clusters don't
scale well beyond ~100 nodes unless we significantly increase failure
discovery tolerance.

This commit introduces a framework and an algorithm that drastically
reduces this background load, while basically maintaining the original
failure detection times across the whole cluster. Using this algorithm,
background load will now grow at a rate of ~(2 * sqrt(N)) per node, and
at ~(2 * N * sqrt(N)) in traffic overhead. As an example, each node will
now have to actively monitor 38 neighbors in a 400-node cluster, instead
of as before 399.

This "Overlapping Ring Supervision Algorithm" is completely distributed
and employs no centralized or coordinated state. It goes as follows:

- Each node makes up a linearly ascending, circular list of all its N
  known neighbors, based on their TIPC node identity. This algorithm
  must be the same on all nodes.

- The node then selects the next M = sqrt(N) - 1 nodes downstream from
  itself in the list, and chooses to actively monitor those. This is
  called its "local monitoring domain".

- It creates a domain record describing the monitoring domain, and
  piggy-backs this in the data area of all neighbor monitoring messages
  (LINK_PROTOCOL/STATE) leaving that node. This means that all nodes in
  the cluster eventually (default within 400 ms) will learn about
  its monitoring domain.

- Whenever a node discovers a change in its local domain, e.g., a node
  has been added or has gone down, it creates and sends out a new
  version of its node record to inform all neighbors about the change.

- A node receiving a domain record from anybody outside its local domain
  matches this against its own list (which may not look the same), and
  chooses to not actively monitor those members of the received domain
  record that are also present in its own list. Instead, it relies on
  indications from the direct monitoring nodes if an indirectly
  monitored node has gone up or down. If a node is indicated lost, the
  receiving node temporarily activates its own direct monitoring towards
  that node in order to confirm, or not, that it is actually gone.

- Since each node is actively monitoring sqrt(N) downstream neighbors,
  each node is also actively monitored by the same number of upstream
  neighbors. This means that all non-direct monitoring nodes normally
  will receive sqrt(N) indications that a node is gone.

- A major drawback with ring monitoring is how it handles failures that
  cause massive network partitionings. If both a lost node and all its
  direct monitoring neighbors are inside the lost partition, the nodes in
  the remaining partition will never receive indications about the loss.
  To overcome this, each node also chooses to actively monitor some
  nodes outside its local domain. Those nodes are called remote domain
  "heads", and are selected in such a way that no node in the cluster
  will be more than two direct monitoring hops away. Because of this,
  each node, apart from monitoring the member of its local domain, will
  also typically monitor sqrt(N) remote head nodes.

- As an optimization, local list status, domain status and domain
  records are marked with a generation number. This saves senders from
  unnecessarily conveying  unaltered domain records, and receivers from
  performing unneeded re-adaptations of their node monitoring list, such
  as re-assigning domain heads.

- As a measure of caution we have added the possibility to disable the
  new algorithm through configuration. We do this by keeping a threshold
  value for the cluster size; a cluster that grows beyond this value
  will switch from full-mesh to ring monitoring, and vice versa when
  it shrinks below the value. This means that if the threshold is set to
  a value larger than any anticipated cluster size (default size is 32)
  the new algorithm is effectively disabled. A patch set for altering the
  threshold value and for listing the table contents will follow shortly.

- This change is fully backwards compatible.

Acked-by: Ying Xue &lt;ying.xue@windriver.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy &lt;jon.maloy@ericsson.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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