1. 09 Feb, 2012 2 commits
  2. 08 Feb, 2012 14 commits
  3. 07 Feb, 2012 17 commits
  4. 06 Feb, 2012 7 commits
    • Allan Stephens's avatar
      tipc: Minor optimization to rejection of connection-based messages · dff10e9e
      Allan Stephens authored
      Modifies message rejection logic so that TIPC doesn't attempt to
      send a FIN message to the rejecting port if it is known in advance
      that there is no such message because the rejecting port doesn't exist.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAllan Stephens <allan.stephens@windriver.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
      dff10e9e
    • Allan Stephens's avatar
      tipc: Eliminate alteration of publication key during name table purging · 3175bd9a
      Allan Stephens authored
      Removes code that alters the publication key of a name table entry
      that is being forcibly purged from TIPC's name table after contact
      with the publishing node has been lost.
      
      Current TIPC ensures that all defunct names are purged before
      re-establishing contact with a failed node.  There used to be a risk
      that the publication might be accidentally deleted because it might be
      re-added to the name table before the purge operation was completed.
      But now there is no longer a need to ensure that the new key is different
      than the old one.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAllan Stephens <allan.stephens@windriver.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
      3175bd9a
    • Allan Stephens's avatar
      tipc: Prevent loss of fragmented messages over broadcast link · 63e7f1ac
      Allan Stephens authored
      Modifies broadcast link so that an incoming fragmented message is not
      lost if reassembly cannot begin because there currently is no buffer
      big enough to hold the entire reassembled message. The broadcast link
      now ignores the first fragment completely, which causes the sending node
      to retransmit the first fragment so that reassembly can be re-attempted.
      
      Previously, the sender would have had no reason to retransmit the 1st
      fragment, so we would never have a chance to re-try the allocation.
      
      To do this cleanly without duplicaton, a new bclink_accept_pkt()
      function is introduced.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAllan Stephens <allan.stephens@windriver.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
      63e7f1ac
    • Allan Stephens's avatar
      tipc: Prevent loss of fragmented messages over unicast links · b76b27ca
      Allan Stephens authored
      Modifies unicast link endpoint logic so an incoming fragmented message
      is not lost if reassembly cannot begin because there is no buffer big
      enough to hold the entire reassembled message. The link endpoint now
      ignores the first fragment completely, which causes the sending node to
      retransmit the first fragment so that reassembly can be re-attempted.
      
      Previously, the sender would have had no reason to retransmit the 1st
      fragment, so we would never have a chance to re-try the allocation.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAllan Stephens <allan.stephens@windriver.com>
      b76b27ca
    • Allan Stephens's avatar
      tipc: Remove obsolete broadcast tag capability · 1ec2bb08
      Allan Stephens authored
      Eliminates support for the broadcast tag field, which is no longer
      used by broadcast link NACK messages.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAllan Stephens <allan.stephens@windriver.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
      1ec2bb08
    • Allan Stephens's avatar
      tipc: Major redesign of broadcast link ACK/NACK algorithms · 7a54d4a9
      Allan Stephens authored
      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: default avatarAllan Stephens <allan.stephens@windriver.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
      7a54d4a9
    • Allan Stephens's avatar
      tipc: Add missing locks in broadcast link statistics accumulation · b98158e3
      Allan Stephens authored
      Ensures that all attempts to update broadcast link statistics are done
      only while holding the lock that protects the link's main data structures,
      to prevent interference by simultaneous updates caused by messages
      arriving on other interfaces.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAllan Stephens <allan.stephens@windriver.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
      b98158e3