linux.git/net/tipc/link.h, branch v4.12

tipc: transfer broadcast nacks in link state messages

2016-09-03T00:10:24+00:00

When we send broadcasts in clusters of more 70-80 nodes, we sometimes
see the broadcast link resetting because of an excessive number of
retransmissions. This is caused by a combination of two factors:

1) A 'NACK crunch", where loss of broadcast packets is discovered
   and NACK'ed by several nodes simultaneously, leading to multiple
   redundant broadcast retransmissions.

2) The fact that the NACKS as such also are sent as broadcast, leading
   to excessive load and packet loss on the transmitting switch/bridge.

This commit deals with the latter problem, by moving sending of
broadcast nacks from the dedicated BCAST_PROTOCOL/NACK message type
to regular unicast LINK_PROTOCOL/STATE messages. We allocate 10 unused
bits in word 8 of the said message for this purpose, and introduce a
new capability bit, TIPC_BCAST_STATE_NACK in order to keep the change
backwards compatible.

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

tipc: let first message on link be a state message

2016-04-15T20:09:06+00:00

According to the link FSM, a received traffic packet can take a link
from state ESTABLISHING to ESTABLISHED, but the link can still not be
fully set up in one atomic operation. This means that even if the the
very first packet on the link is a traffic packet with sequence number
1 (one), it has to be dropped and retransmitted.

This can be avoided if we let the mentioned packet be preceded by a
LINK_PROTOCOL/STATE message, which takes up the endpoint before the
arrival of the traffic.

We add this small feature in this commit.

This is a fully compatible change.

Acked-by: Ying Xue 
Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

tipc: remove pre-allocated message header in link struct

2016-03-07T04:01:20+00:00

Until now, we have kept a pre-allocated protocol message header
aggregated into struct tipc_link. Apart from adding unnecessary
footprint to the link instances, this requires extra code both to
initialize and re-initialize it.

We now remove this sub-optimization. This change also makes it
possible to clean up the function tipc_build_proto_msg() and remove
a couple of small functions that were accessing the mentioned header.
In particular, we can replace all occurrences of the local function
call link_own_addr(link) with the generic tipc_own_addr(net).

Acked-by: Ying Xue 
Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

tipc: fix link attribute propagation bug

2016-02-06T07:45:27+00:00

Changing certain link attributes (link tolerance and link priority)
from the TIPC management tool is supposed to automatically take
effect at both endpoints of the affected link.

Currently the media address is not instantiated for the link and is
used uninstantiated when crafting protocol messages designated for the
peer endpoint. This means that changing a link property currently
results in the property being changed on the local machine but the
protocol message designated for the peer gets lost. Resulting in
property discrepancy between the endpoints.

In this patch we resolve this by using the media address from the
link entry and using the bearer transmit function to send it. Hence,
we can now eliminate the redundant function tipc_link_prot_xmit() and
the redundant field tipc_link::media_addr.

Fixes: 2af5ae372a4b (tipc: clean up unused code and structures)
Reviewed-by: Jon Maloy 
Reported-by: Jason Hu 
Signed-off-by: Richard Alpe 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

tipc: eliminate remnants of hungarian notation

2015-11-20T19:06:10+00:00

The number of variables with Hungarian notation (l_ptr, n_ptr etc.)
has been significantly reduced over the last couple of years.

We now root out the last traces of this practice.
There are no functional changes in this commit.

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

tipc: narrow down interface towards struct tipc_link

2015-11-20T19:06:10+00:00

We move the definition of struct tipc_link from link.h to link.c in
order to minimize its exposure to the rest of the code.

When needed, we define new functions to make it possible for external
entities to access and set data in the link.

Apart from the above, there are no functional changes.

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

tipc: narrow down exposure of struct tipc_node

2015-11-20T19:06:10+00:00

In our effort to have less code and include dependencies between
entities such as node, link and bearer, we try to narrow down
the exposed interface towards the node as much as possible.

In this commit, we move the definition of struct tipc_node, along
with many of its associated function declarations, from node.h to
node.c. We also move some function definitions from link.c and
name_distr.c to node.c, since they access fields in struct tipc_node
that should not be externally visible. The moved functions are renamed
according to new location, and made static whenever possible.

There are no functional changes in this commit.

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

tipc: clean up unused code and structures

2015-10-24T13:56:47+00:00

After the previous changes in this series, we can now remove some
unused code and structures, both in the broadcast, link aggregation
and link code.

There are no functional changes in this commit.

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

tipc: eliminate link's reference to owner node

2015-10-24T13:56:45+00:00

With the recent commit series, we have established a one-way dependency
between the link aggregation (struct tipc_node) instances and their
pertaining tipc_link instances. This has enabled quite significant code
and structure simplifications.

In this commit, we eliminate the field 'owner', which points to an
instance of struct tipc_node, from struct tipc_link, and replace it with
a pointer to struct net, which is the only external reference now needed
by a link instance.

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

tipc: introduce jumbo frame support for broadcast

2015-10-24T13:56:40+00:00

Until now, we have only been supporting a fix MTU size of 1500 bytes
for all broadcast media, irrespective of their actual capability.

We now make the broadcast MTU adaptable to the carrying media, i.e.,
we use the smallest MTU supported by any of the interfaces attached
to TIPC.

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