tipc: drop tunneled packet duplicates at reception
In commit 8b4ed863 ("tipc: eliminate race condition at dual link establishment") we introduced a parallel link synchronization mechanism that guarentees sequential delivery even for users switching from an old to a newly established link. The new mechanism makes it unnecessary to deliver the tunneled duplicate packets back to the old link, as we are currently doing. It is now sufficient to use the last tunneled packet's inner sequence number as synchronization point between the two parallel links, whereafter it can be dropped. In this commit, we drop the duplicate packets arriving on the new link, after updating the synchronization point at each new arrival. Although it would now have been sufficient for the other endpoint to only tunnel the last packet in its send queue, and not the entire queue, we must still do this to maintain compatibility with older nodes. This commit makes it possible to get rid if some complex interaction between the two parallel links. Reviewed-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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