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authorChristian Franke <chris@opensourcerouting.org>2018-05-10 17:37:05 +0200
committerChristian Franke <chris@opensourcerouting.org>2018-09-05 11:38:13 +0200
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parentfabricd: implement asymmetric metric for tier 0 as per Section 6.2 (diff)
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fabricd: reimplement LSP transmission logic
Before this commit, isisd/fabricd maintained a bitfield for each LSP to track the SRM bit for each circuit, which specifies whether an LSP needs to be sent on that circuit. Every second, it would scan over all LSPs in `lsp_tick` and queue them up for transmission accordingly. This design has two drawbacks: a) it scales poorly b) it adds unacceptable latency to the update process: each router takes a random amount of time between 0 and 1 seconds to forward an update. In a network with a diamter of 10, it might already take 10 seconds for an update to traverse the network. To mitigate this, a new design was chosen. Instead of tracking SRM in a bitfield, have one tx_queue per circuit and declare that an LSP is in that queue if and only if it would have SRM set for that circuit. This way, we can track SRM similarly as we did before, however, on insertion into the LSP queue, we can add a timer for (re)transmission, alleviating the need for a periodic scan with LSP tick and reducing the latency for forwarding of updates. Signed-off-by: Christian Franke <chris@opensourcerouting.org>
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+/*
+ * IS-IS Rout(e)ing protocol - LSP TX Queuing logic
+ *
+ * Copyright (C) 2018 Christian Franke
+ *
+ * This file is part of FreeRangeRouting (FRR)
+ *
+ * FRR is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
+ * under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the
+ * Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any
+ * later version.
+ *
+ * FRR is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
+ * WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
+ * General Public License for more details.
+ *
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
+ * with this program; see the file COPYING; if not, write to the Free Software
+ * Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA
+ */
+#ifndef ISIS_TX_QUEUE_H
+#define ISIS_TX_QUEUE_H
+
+enum isis_tx_type {
+ TX_LSP_NORMAL = 0,
+ TX_LSP_CIRCUIT_SCOPED
+};
+
+struct isis_tx_queue;
+
+struct isis_tx_queue *isis_tx_queue_new(void *arg,
+ void(*send_event)(void *arg,
+ struct isis_lsp *,
+ enum isis_tx_type));
+
+void isis_tx_queue_free(struct isis_tx_queue *queue);
+
+void isis_tx_queue_add(struct isis_tx_queue *queue,
+ struct isis_lsp *lsp,
+ enum isis_tx_type type);
+
+void isis_tx_queue_del(struct isis_tx_queue *queue, struct isis_lsp *lsp);
+
+unsigned long isis_tx_queue_len(struct isis_tx_queue *queue);
+
+void isis_tx_queue_clean(struct isis_tx_queue *queue);
+
+#endif