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| author | Jon Paul Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com> | 2014-07-17 02:41:00 +0200 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2014-07-17 06:38:18 +0200 |
| commit | 078bec826f7b73cf2a2397680537bcb7e075b492 (patch) | |
| tree | 8b30dce59fa8512d15a53cbcc404962c09372047 /net/tipc/socket.h | |
| parent | tipc: let internal link users call the new link send function (diff) | |
| download | linux-078bec826f7b73cf2a2397680537bcb7e075b492.tar.xz linux-078bec826f7b73cf2a2397680537bcb7e075b492.zip | |
tipc: add new functions for multicast and broadcast distribution
We add a new broadcast link transmit function in bclink.c and a new
receive function in socket.c. The purpose is to move the branching
between external and internal destination down to the link layer,
just as we have done with unicast in earlier commits. We also make
use of the new link-independent fragmentation support that was
introduced in an earlier commit series.
This gives a shorter and simpler code path, and makes it possible
to obtain copy-free buffer delivery to all node local destination
sockets.
The new transmission code is added in parallel with the existing one,
and will be used by the socket multicast send function in the next
commit in this series.
Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com>
Reviewed-by: Erik Hugne <erik.hugne@ericsson.com>
Reviewed-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/tipc/socket.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/tipc/socket.h | 2 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/tipc/socket.h b/net/tipc/socket.h index 2cdede9eda1b..43b75b3ceced 100644 --- a/net/tipc/socket.h +++ b/net/tipc/socket.h @@ -85,4 +85,6 @@ static inline int tipc_sk_conn_cong(struct tipc_sock *tsk) int tipc_sk_rcv(struct sk_buff *buf); +void tipc_sk_mcast_rcv(struct sk_buff *buf); + #endif |