kernel.git/net/tipc/link.h, branch linux-3.14.y

tipc: make link start event synchronous

2014-01-07T23:44:26Z

When a link is created we delay the start event by launching it to be executed later in a tasklet. As we hold all the necessary locks at the moment of creation, and there is no risk of deadlock or contention, this delay serves no purpose in the current code. We remove this obsolete indirection step, and the associated function link_start(). At the same time, we rename the function tipc_link_stop() to the more appropriate tipc_link_purge_queues(). Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy Reviewed-by: Paul Gortmaker Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

tipc: rename functions related to link failover and improve comments

2014-01-07T23:44:25Z

The functionality related to link addition and failover is unnecessarily hard to understand and maintain. We try to improve this by renaming some of the functions, at the same time adding or improving the explanatory comments around them. Names such as "tipc_rcv()" etc. also align better with what is used in other networking components. The changes in this commit are purely cosmetic, no functional changes are made. Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy Reviewed-by: Ying Xue Reviewed-by: Paul Gortmaker Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

tipc: make local function static

2014-01-05T01:18:50Z

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

tipc: remove unused 'blocked' flag from tipc_link struct

2013-12-11T05:17:43Z

In early versions of TIPC it was possible to administratively block individual links through the use of the member flag 'blocked'. This functionality was deemed redundant, and since commit 7368dd ("tipc: clean out all instances of #if 0'd unused code"), this flag has been unused. In the current code, a link only needs to be blocked for sending and reception if it is subject to an ongoing link failover. In that case, it is sufficient to check if the number of expected failover packets is non-zero, something which is done via the funtion 'link_blocked()'. This commit finally removes the redundant 'blocked' flag completely. Signed-off-by: Ying Xue Reviewed-by: Paul Gortmaker Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

tipc: message reassembly using fragment chain

2013-11-07T23:30:11Z

When the first fragment of a long data data message is received on a link, a reassembly buffer large enough to hold the data from this and all subsequent fragments of the message is allocated. The payload of each new fragment is copied into this buffer upon arrival. When the last fragment is received, the reassembled message is delivered upwards to the port/socket layer. Not only is this an inefficient approach, but it may also cause bursts of reassembly failures in low memory situations. since we may fail to allocate the necessary large buffer in the first place. Furthermore, after 100 subsequent such failures the link will be reset, something that in reality aggravates the situation. To remedy this problem, this patch introduces a different approach. Instead of allocating a big reassembly buffer, we now append the arriving fragments to a reassembly chain on the link, and deliver the whole chain up to the socket layer once the last fragment has been received. This is safe because the retransmission layer of a TIPC link always delivers packets in strict uninterrupted order, to the reassembly layer as to all other upper layers. Hence there can never be more than one fragment chain pending reassembly at any given time in a link, and we can trust (but still verify) that the fragments will be chained up in the correct order. Signed-off-by: Erik Hugne Reviewed-by: Paul Gortmaker Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

tipc: remove iovec length parameter from all sending functions

2013-10-18T17:20:42Z

tipc_msg_build() now copies message data from iovec to skb_buff using memcpy_fromiovecend(), which doesn't need to be passed the iovec length to perform the copying. So we remove the parameter indicating iovec length in all functions where TIPC messages are built and sent. Signed-off-by: Ying Xue Reviewed-by: Paul Gortmaker Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

tipc: remove the bearer congestion mechanism

2012-11-22T01:07:25Z

Currently at the TIPC bearer layer there is the following congestion mechanism: Once sending packets has failed via that bearer, the bearer will be flagged as being in congested state at once. During bearer congestion, all packets arriving at link will be queued on the link's outgoing buffer. When we detect that the state of bearer congestion has relaxed (e.g. some packets are received from the bearer) we will try our best to push all packets in the link's outgoing buffer until the buffer is empty, or until the bearer is congested again. However, in fact the TIPC bearer never receives any feedback from the device layer whether a send was successful or not, so it must always assume it was successful. Therefore, the bearer congestion mechanism as it exists currently is of no value. But the bearer blocking state is still useful for us. For example, when the physical media goes down/up, we need to change the state of the links bound to the bearer. So the code maintaing the state information is not removed. Signed-off-by: Ying Xue Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker

tipc: remove print_buf and deprecated log buffer code

2012-07-13T23:34:43Z

The internal log buffer handling functions can now safely be removed since there is no code using it anymore. Requests to interact with the internal tipc log buffer over netlink (in config.c) will report 'obsolete command'. This represents the final removal of any references to a struct print_buf, and the removal of the struct itself. We also get rid of a TIPC specific Kconfig in the process. Finally, log.h is removed since it is not needed anymore. Signed-off-by: Erik Hugne Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker

tipc: factor stats struct out of the larger link struct

2012-07-12T13:53:57Z

This is done to improve readability, and so that we can give the struct a name that will allow us to declare a local pointer to it in code, instead of having to always redirect through the link struct to get to it. Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker

tipc: compress out gratuitous extra carriage returns

2012-04-30T19:53:56Z

Some of the comment blocks are floating in limbo between two functions, or between blocks of code. Delete the extra line feeds between any comment and its associated following block of code, to be consistent with the majority of the rest of the kernel. Also delete trailing newlines at EOF and fix a couple trivial typos in existing comments. This is a 100% cosmetic change with no runtime impact. We get rid of over 500 lines of non-code, and being blank line deletes, they won't even show up as noise in git blame. Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker