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* tipc: Ensure both nodes recognize loss of contact between themAllan Stephens2011-09-181-2/+8
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Enhances TIPC to ensure that a node that loses contact with a neighboring node does not allow contact to be re-established until it sees that its peer has also recognized the loss of contact. Previously, nodes that were connected by two or more links could encounter a situation in which node A would lose contact with node B on all of its links, purge its name table of names published by B, and then fail to repopulate those names once contact with B was restored. This would happen because B was able to re-establish one or more links so quickly that it never reached a point where it had no links to A -- meaning that B never saw a loss of contact with A, and consequently didn't re-publish its names to A. This problem is now prevented by enhancing the cleanup done by TIPC following a loss of contact with a neighboring node to ensure that node A ignores all messages sent by B until it receives a LINK_PROTOCOL message that indicates B has lost contact with A, thereby preventing the (re)establishment of links between the nodes. The loss of contact is recognized when a RESET or ACTIVATE message is received that has a "redundant link exists" field of 0, indicating that B's sending link endpoint is in a reset state and that B has no other working links. Additionally, TIPC now suppresses the sending of (most) link protocol messages to a neighboring node while it is cleaning up after an earlier loss of contact with that node. This stops the peer node from prematurely activating its link endpoint, which would prevent TIPC from later activating its own end. TIPC still allows outgoing RESET messages to occur during cleanup, to avoid problems if its own node recognizes the loss of contact first and tries to notify the peer of the situation. Finally, TIPC now recognizes an impending loss of contact with a peer node as soon as it receives a RESET message on a working link that is the peer's only link to the node, and ensures that the link protocol suppression mentioned above goes into effect right away -- that is, even before its own link endpoints have failed. This is necessary to ensure correct operation when there are redundant links between the nodes, since otherwise TIPC would send an ACTIVATE message upon receiving a RESET on its first link and only begin suppressing when a RESET on its second link was received, instead of initiating suppression with the first RESET message as it needs to. Note: The reworked cleanup code also eliminates a check that prevented a link endpoint's discovery object from responding to incoming messages while stale name table entries are being purged. This check is now unnecessary and would have slowed down re-establishment of communication between the nodes in some situations. Signed-off-by: Allan Stephens <allan.stephens@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
* tipc: Optimizations to link creation codeAllan Stephens2011-03-131-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Enhances link creation code as follows: 1) Detects illegal attempts to add a requested link earlier in the link creation process. This prevents TIPC from wasting time initializing a link object it then throws away, and also eliminates the code needed to do the throwing away. 2) Passes in the node object associated with the requested link. This allows TIPC to eliminate a search to locate the node object, as well as code that attempted to create the node if it doesn't exist. Signed-off-by: Allan Stephens <Allan.Stephens@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
* tipc: cosmetic - function names are not to be full sentencesPaul Gortmaker2011-03-131-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | Function names like "tipc_node_has_redundant_links" are unweildy and result in long lines even for simple lines. The "has" doesn't contribute any value add, so dropping that is a slight step in the right direction. This is a cosmetic change, basic result of: for i in `grep -l tipc_node_has_ *` ; do sed -i s/tipc_node_has_/tipc_node_/ $i ; done Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
* tipc: Convert node object array to a hash tableAllan Stephens2011-03-131-10/+20
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Replaces the dynamically allocated array of pointers to the cluster's node objects with a static hash table. Hash collisions are resolved using chaining, with a typical hash chain having only a single node, to avoid degrading performance during processing of incoming packets. The conversion to a hash table reduces the memory requirements for TIPC's node table to approximately the same size it had prior to the previous commit. In addition to the hash table itself, TIPC now also maintains a linked list for the node objects, sorted by ascending network address. This list allows TIPC to continue sending responses to user space applications that request node and link information in sorted order. The list also improves performance when name table update messages are sent by making it easier to identify the nodes that must be notified. Signed-off-by: Allan Stephens <allan.stephens@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
* tipc: Split up unified structure of network-related variablesAllan Stephens2011-03-131-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Converts the fields of the global "tipc_net" structure into individual variables. Since the struct was never referenced as a complete unit, its existence was pointless. This will facilitate upcoming changes to TIPC's node table and simpify upcoming relocation of the variables so they are only visible to the files that actually use them. This change is essentially cosmetic in nature, and doesn't affect the operation of TIPC. Signed-off-by: Allan Stephens <allan.stephens@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
* tipc: Remove prototype code for supporting multiple clustersAllan Stephens2011-01-011-4/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | Eliminates routines, data structures, and files that were intended to allow TIPC to support a network containing multiple clusters. Currently, TIPC supports only networks consisting of a single cluster within a single zone, so this code is unnecessary. Signed-off-by: Allan Stephens <Allan.Stephens@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* tipc: Remove prototype code for supporting inter-cluster routingAllan Stephens2011-01-011-21/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | Eliminates routines and data structures that were intended to allow TIPC to route messages to other clusters. Currently, TIPC supports only networks consisting of a single cluster within a single zone, so this code is unnecessary. Signed-off-by: Allan Stephens <Allan.Stephens@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* tipc: Remove prototype code for supporting multiple zonesAllan Stephens2011-01-011-1/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | Eliminates routines, data structures, and files that were intended to allows TIPC to support a network containing multiple zones. Currently, TIPC supports only networks consisting of a single cluster within a single zone, so this code is unnecessary. Signed-off-by: Allan Stephens <Allan.Stephens@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* tipc: cleanup function namespacestephen hemminger2010-10-161-1/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Do some cleanups of TIPC based on make namespacecheck 1. Don't export unused symbols 2. Eliminate dead code 3. Make functions and variables local 4. Rename buf_acquire to tipc_buf_acquire since it is used in several files Compile tested only. This make break out of tree kernel modules that depend on TIPC routines. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Acked-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com> Acked-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* tipc: Prevent missing name table entries when link flip-flops rapidlyAllan Stephens2010-08-181-0/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Ensure that TIPC does not re-establish communication with a neighboring node until it has finished updating all data structures containing information about that node to reflect the earlier loss of contact. Previously, it was possible for TIPC to perform its purge of name table entries relating to the node once contact had already been re-established, resulting in the unwanted removal of valid name table entries. Signed-off-by: Allan Stephens <allan.stephens@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* tipc: Don't use structure names which easily globally conflict.David S. Miller2008-09-031-21/+21
| | | | | | | | | | | Andrew Morton reported a build failure on sparc32, because TIPC uses names like "struct node" and there is a like named data structure defined in linux/node.h This just regexp replaces "struct node*" to "struct tipc_node*" to avoid this and any future similar problems. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [NET] TIPC: Fix whitespace errors.YOSHIFUJI Hideaki2007-02-111-4/+4
| | | | | Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [TIPC]: Fixed link switchover bugsAllan Stephens2006-06-261-0/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | Incorporates several related fixes: - switchover now occurs when switching from an active link to a standby link - failure of a standby link no longer initiates switchover - links now display correct # of received packtes following reactivation Signed-off-by: Allan Stephens <allan.stephens@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Per Liden <per.liden@ericsson.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [TIPC]: Fix simple sparse warningsSam Ravnborg2006-03-211-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Tried to run the new tipc stack through sparse. Following patch fixes all cases where 0 was used as replacement of NULL. Use NULL to document this is a pointer and to silence sparse. This brough sparse warning count down with 127 to 24 warnings. Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Signed-off-by: Per Liden <per.liden@ericsson.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [TIPC] Avoid polluting the global namespacePer Liden2006-01-181-25/+25
| | | | | | This patch adds a tipc_ prefix to all externally visible symbols. Signed-off-by: Per Liden <per.liden@ericsson.com>
* [TIPC] More updates of file headersPer Liden2006-01-121-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | Updated copyright notice to include the year the file was actually created. Information about file creation dates was extracted from the files in the old CVS repository at tipc.sourceforge.net. Signed-off-by: Per Liden <per.liden@nospam.ericsson.com>
* [TIPC] Update of file headersPer Liden2006-01-121-2/+1
| | | | | | | The copyright statements from different parts of Ericsson have been merged into one. Signed-off-by: Per Liden <per.liden@nospam.ericsson.com>
* [TIPC] License header updatePer Liden2006-01-121-19/+23
| | | | | | | | The license header in each file now more clearly state that this code is licensed under a dual BSD/GPL. Before this was only evident if you looked at the MODULE_LICENSE line in core.c. Signed-off-by: Per Liden <per.liden@nospam.ericsson.com>
* [TIPC] Initial mergePer Liden2006-01-121-0/+141
TIPC (Transparent Inter Process Communication) is a protocol designed for intra cluster communication. For more information see http://tipc.sourceforge.net Signed-off-by: Per Liden <per.liden@nospam.ericsson.com>