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authorLinus Lüssing <linus.luessing@web.de>2014-02-15 17:47:52 +0100
committerAntonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com>2014-03-22 09:18:57 +0100
commit1d8ab8d3c176d31530b3ffd4547cf731018e2a45 (patch)
treeb62208972cdfb70a853ff5177c29154fd165bea7 /net/batman-adv/multicast.h
parentbatman-adv: Announce new capability via multicast TVLV (diff)
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batman-adv: Modified forwarding behaviour for multicast packets
With this patch a multicast packet is not always simply flooded anymore, the behaviour for the following cases is changed to reduce unnecessary overhead: If all nodes within the horizon of a certain node have signalized multicast listener announcement capability then an IPv6 multicast packet with a destination of IPv6 link-local scope (excluding ff02::1) coming from the upstream of this node... * ...is dropped if there is no according multicast listener in the translation table, * ...is forwarded via unicast if there is a single node with interested multicast listeners * ...and otherwise still gets flooded. Signed-off-by: Linus Lüssing <linus.luessing@web.de> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch> Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/batman-adv/multicast.h')
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1 files changed, 25 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/batman-adv/multicast.h b/net/batman-adv/multicast.h
index c029eaca7c44..73b5d45819c1 100644
--- a/net/batman-adv/multicast.h
+++ b/net/batman-adv/multicast.h
@@ -18,10 +18,28 @@
#ifndef _NET_BATMAN_ADV_MULTICAST_H_
#define _NET_BATMAN_ADV_MULTICAST_H_
+/**
+ * batadv_forw_mode - the way a packet should be forwarded as
+ * @BATADV_FORW_ALL: forward the packet to all nodes (currently via classic
+ * flooding)
+ * @BATADV_FORW_SINGLE: forward the packet to a single node (currently via the
+ * BATMAN unicast routing protocol)
+ * @BATADV_FORW_NONE: don't forward, drop it
+ */
+enum batadv_forw_mode {
+ BATADV_FORW_ALL,
+ BATADV_FORW_SINGLE,
+ BATADV_FORW_NONE,
+};
+
#ifdef CONFIG_BATMAN_ADV_MCAST
void batadv_mcast_mla_update(struct batadv_priv *bat_priv);
+enum batadv_forw_mode
+batadv_mcast_forw_mode(struct batadv_priv *bat_priv, struct sk_buff *skb,
+ struct batadv_orig_node **mcast_single_orig);
+
void batadv_mcast_init(struct batadv_priv *bat_priv);
void batadv_mcast_free(struct batadv_priv *bat_priv);
@@ -35,6 +53,13 @@ static inline void batadv_mcast_mla_update(struct batadv_priv *bat_priv)
return;
}
+static inline enum batadv_forw_mode
+batadv_mcast_forw_mode(struct batadv_priv *bat_priv, struct sk_buff *skb,
+ struct batadv_orig_node **mcast_single_orig)
+{
+ return BATADV_FORW_ALL;
+}
+
static inline int batadv_mcast_init(struct batadv_priv *bat_priv)
{
return 0;