Fixes the following sparse warning:

net/ipv4/tcp.c:1736:6: warning:
 symbol 'tcp_recv_timestamp' was not declared. Should it be static?
Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <weiyongjun1@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Fix to return a negative error code from the xdp_rxq_info_reg() error
handling case instead of 0, as done elsewhere in this function.

Fixes: 0ddf5432 ("xdp/mlx5: setup xdp_rxq_info")
Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <weiyongjun1@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

We'd come in with SGE_FL_BUFFER_SIZE[0] and [1] both equal to 64KB and
the extant logic would flag that as an error. This was already fixed in
cxgb4 driver with "92ddcc7b cxgb4: Fix some small bugs in
t4_sge_init_soft() when our Page Size is 64KB".

Original Work by: Casey Leedom <leedom@chelsio.com>
Signed-off-by: Arjun Vynipadath <arjun@chelsio.com>
Signed-off-by: Ganesh Goudar <ganeshgr@chelsio.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Fixes: fc72d1d5 ("tuntap: XDP transmission")
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Acked-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

The commit e817f856 ("xdp: generic XDP handling of xdp_rxq_info")
removed some ifdef CONFIG_SYSFS in net/core/dev.c, but forgot to
remove the corresponding ifdef's in include/linux/netdevice.h.

Fixes: e817f856 ("xdp: generic XDP handling of xdp_rxq_info")
Reported-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Signed-off-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

The internal PHYs in the mv88e6390 switch have a temperature sensor.
It uses a different register layout to other PHY currently supported.
It also has an errata, in that some reads of the sensor result in bad
values. So a number of reads need to be made, and the average taken.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Andy Gospodarek says:

====================
net: create dynamic software irq moderation library

This converts the dynamic interrupt moderation library from the mlx5e
driver into a library so it can be used by any driver.  The penultimate
patch in this set adds support for this new dynamic interrupt moderation
library in the bnxt_en driver and the last patch creates an entry in the
MAINTAINERS file for this library.

The main purpose of this code is to allow an administrator to make sure
that default coalesce settings are optimized for low latency, but
quickly adapt to handle high throughput/bulk traffic by altering how
much time passes before popping an interrupt.

For any new driver the following changes would be needed to use this
library:

- add elements in ring struct to track items needed by this library
- create function that can be called to actually set coalesce settings
  for the driver

Credit to Rob Rice and Lee Reed for doing some of the initial proof of
concept and testing for this patch and Tal Gilboa and Or Gerlitz for
their comments, etc on this set.

v4: Fix build breakage for VF representers noticed by kbuild test robot.
Thanks for being so courteous, kbuild test robot!

v3: bnxt_en fix from Michael Chan, comment suggestion from Vasundhara
Volam, and small mlx5e header file fix from Tal Gilboa.

v2: Spelling fixes from Stephen Hemminger, bnxt_en suggestions from
Michael Chan, spelling and formatting fixes from Or Gerlitz, and
spelling and mlx5e changes suggested by Tal Gilboa.
====================
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Signed-off-by: Andy Gospodarek <gospo@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Tal Gilboa <talgi@mellanox.com>
Acked-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

This implements the changes needed for the bnxt_en driver to add support
for dynamic interrupt moderation per ring.

This does add additional counters in the receive path, but testing shows
that any additional instructions are offset by throughput gain when the
default configuration is for low latency.
Signed-off-by: Andy Gospodarek <gospo@broadcom.com>
Acked-by: Michael Chan <michael.chan@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Simplify the arguments net_dim() by formatting them into a struct
net_dim_sample before calling the function.
Signed-off-by: Andy Gospodarek <gospo@broadcom.com>
Suggested-by: Tal Gilboa <talgi@mellanox.com>
Acked-by: Tal Gilboa <talgi@mellanox.com>
Acked-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

This move allows drivers to add private structure elements to track the
number of packets, bytes, and interrupts events per ring.  A driver
also defines a workqueue handler to act on this collected data once per
poll and modify the coalescing parameters per ring.
Signed-off-by: Andy Gospodarek <gospo@broadcom.com>
Acked-by: Tal Gilboa <talgi@mellanox.com>
Acked-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Change all appropriate mlx5_am* and MLX5_AM* references to net_dim and
NET_DIM, respectively, in code that handles dynamic interrupt
moderation.  Also change all references from 'am' to 'dim' when used as
local variables and add generic profile references.
Signed-off-by: Andy Gospodarek <gospo@broadcom.com>
Acked-by: Tal Gilboa <talgi@mellanox.com>
Acked-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

These functions were identified as ones that could be made generic and
used by multiple drivers.  Most of the contents of en_rx_am.c are moved
to net_dim.c.
Signed-off-by: Andy Gospodarek <gospo@broadcom.com>
Acked-by: Tal Gilboa <talgi@mellanox.com>
Acked-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

More movement to help make this code more generic.
Signed-off-by: Andy Gospodarek <gospo@broadcom.com>
Acked-by: Tal Gilboa <talgi@mellanox.com>
Acked-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

This makes mlx5e_am_sample more generic so that it can be called easily
from a driver that does not use the same data structure to store these
values in a single structure.
Signed-off-by: Andy Gospodarek <gospo@broadcom.com>
Acked-by: Tal Gilboa <talgi@mellanox.com>
Acked-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Move these to newly created file to prepare to move these functions to a
library.
Signed-off-by: Andy Gospodarek <gospo@broadcom.com>
Acked-by: Tal Gilboa <talgi@mellanox.com>
Acked-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Create new header file to prepare to move code that handles irq
moderation to a library that lives in a header file.
Signed-off-by: Andy Gospodarek <gospo@broadcom.com>
Acked-by: Tal Gilboa <talgi@mellanox.com>
Acked-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Ido Schimmel says:

====================
ipv6: Add support for non-equal-cost multipath

This set aims to add support for IPv6 non-equal-cost multipath routes.
The first three patches convert multipath selection to use the
hash-threshold method (RFC 2992) instead of modulo-N. The same method is
employed by the IPv4 routing code since commit 0e884c78 ("ipv4: L3
hash-based multipath").

Unlike modulo-N, with hash-threshold only the flows near the region
boundaries are affected when a nexthop is added or removed. In addition,
it allows us to easily add support for non-equal-cost multipath in the
last patch by sizing the different regions according to the provided
weights.
====================
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

The use of hash-threshold instead of modulo-N makes it trivial to add
support for non-equal-cost multipath.

Instead of dividing the multipath hash function's output space equally
between the nexthops, each nexthop is assigned a region size which is
proportional to its weight.
Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com>
Acked-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Now that each nexthop stores its region boundary in the multipath hash
function's output space, we can use hash-threshold instead of modulo-N
in multipath selection.

This reduces the number of checks we need to perform during lookup, as
dead and linkdown nexthops are assigned a negative region boundary. In
addition, in contrast to modulo-N, only flows near region boundaries are
affected when a nexthop is added or removed.
Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com>
Acked-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

The hash thresholds assigned to IPv6 nexthops are in the range of
[-1, 2^31 - 1], where a negative value is assigned to nexthops that
should not be considered during multipath selection.

Therefore, in a similar fashion to IPv4, we need to use the upper
31-bits of the multipath hash for multipath selection.
Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com>
Acked-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Before we convert IPv6 to use hash-threshold instead of modulo-N, we
first need each nexthop to store its region boundary in the hash
function's output space.

The boundary is calculated by dividing the output space equally between
the different active nexthops. That is, nexthops that are not dead or
linkdown.

The boundaries are rebalanced whenever a nexthop is added or removed to
a multipath route and whenever a nexthop becomes active or inactive.
Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com>
Acked-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

This patch tries to batched used ring update during RX. This is pretty
fit for the case when guest is much faster (e.g dpdk based
backend). In this case, used ring is almost empty:

- we may get serious cache line misses/contending on both used ring
  and used idx.
- at most 1 packet could be dequeued at one time, batching in guest
  does not make much effect.

Update used ring in a batch can help since guest won't access the used
ring until used idx was advanced for several descriptors and since we
advance used ring for every N packets, guest will only need to access
used idx for every N packet since it can cache the used idx. To have a
better interaction for both batch dequeuing and dpdk batching,
VHOST_RX_BATCH was used as the maximum number of descriptors that
could be batched.

Test were done between two machines with 2.40GHz Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU
E5-2630 connected back to back through ixgbe. Traffic were generated
on one remote ixgbe through MoonGen and measure the RX pps through
testpmd in guest when do xdp_redirect_map from local ixgbe to
tap. RX pps were increased from 3.05 Mpps to 4.00 Mpps (about 31%
improvement).

One possible concern for this is the implications for TCP (especially
latency sensitive workload). Result[1] does not show obvious changes
for most of the netperf test (RR, TX, and RX). And we do get some
improvements for RX on some specific size.

Guest RX:

size/sessions/+thu%/+normalize%
   64/     1/   +2%/   +2%
   64/     2/   +2%/   -1%
   64/     4/   +1%/   +1%
   64/     8/    0%/    0%
  256/     1/   +6%/   -3%
  256/     2/   -3%/   +2%
  256/     4/  +11%/  +11%
  256/     8/    0%/    0%
  512/     1/   +4%/    0%
  512/     2/   +2%/   +2%
  512/     4/    0%/   -1%
  512/     8/   -8%/   -8%
 1024/     1/   -7%/  -17%
 1024/     2/   -8%/   -7%
 1024/     4/   +1%/    0%
 1024/     8/    0%/    0%
 2048/     1/  +30%/  +14%
 2048/     2/  +46%/  +40%
 2048/     4/    0%/    0%
 2048/     8/    0%/    0%
 4096/     1/  +23%/  +22%
 4096/     2/  +26%/  +23%
 4096/     4/    0%/   +1%
 4096/     8/    0%/    0%
16384/     1/   -2%/   -3%
16384/     2/   +1%/   -4%
16384/     4/   -1%/   -3%
16384/     8/    0%/   -1%
65535/     1/  +15%/   +7%
65535/     2/   +4%/   +7%
65535/     4/    0%/   +1%
65535/     8/    0%/    0%

TCP_RR:

size/sessions/+thu%/+normalize%
    1/     1/    0%/   +1%
    1/    25/   +2%/   +1%
    1/    50/   +4%/   +1%
   64/     1/    0%/   -4%
   64/    25/   +2%/   +1%
   64/    50/    0%/   -1%
  256/     1/    0%/    0%
  256/    25/    0%/    0%
  256/    50/   +4%/   +2%

Guest TX:

size/sessions/+thu%/+normalize%
   64/     1/   +4%/   -2%
   64/     2/   -6%/   -5%
   64/     4/   +3%/   +6%
   64/     8/    0%/   +3%
  256/     1/  +15%/  +16%
  256/     2/  +11%/  +12%
  256/     4/   +1%/    0%
  256/     8/   +5%/   +5%
  512/     1/   -1%/   -6%
  512/     2/    0%/   -8%
  512/     4/   -2%/   +4%
  512/     8/   +6%/   +9%
 1024/     1/   +3%/   +1%
 1024/     2/   +3%/   +9%
 1024/     4/    0%/   +7%
 1024/     8/    0%/   +7%
 2048/     1/   +8%/   +2%
 2048/     2/   +3%/   -1%
 2048/     4/   -1%/  +11%
 2048/     8/   +3%/   +9%
 4096/     1/   +8%/   +8%
 4096/     2/    0%/   -7%
 4096/     4/   +4%/   +4%
 4096/     8/   +2%/   +5%
16384/     1/   -3%/   +1%
16384/     2/   -1%/  -12%
16384/     4/   -1%/   +5%
16384/     8/    0%/   +1%
65535/     1/    0%/   -3%
65535/     2/   +5%/  +16%
65535/     4/   +1%/   +2%
65535/     8/   +1%/   -1%
Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

mlx5-updates-2018-01-08

Four patches from Or that add Hairpin support to mlx5:
===========================================================
From:  Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@mellanox.com>

We refer the ability of NIC HW to fwd packet received on one port to
the other port (also from a port to itself) as hairpin. The application API
is based
on ingress tc/flower rules set on the NIC with the mirred redirect
action. Other actions can apply to packets during the redirect.

Hairpin allows to offload the data-path of various SW DDoS gateways,
load-balancers, etc to HW. Packets go through all the required
processing in HW (header re-write, encap/decap, push/pop vlan) and
then forwarded, CPU stays at practically zero usage. HW Flow counters
are used by the control plane for monitoring and accounting.

Hairpin is implemented by pairing a receive queue (RQ) to send queue (SQ).
All the flows that share <recv NIC, mirred NIC> are redirected through
the same hairpin pair. Currently, only header-rewrite is supported as a
packet modification action.

I'd like to thanks Elijah Shakkour <elijahs@mellanox.com> for implementing this
functionality
on HW simulator, before it was avail in the FW so the driver code could be
tested early.
===========================================================

From Feras three patches that provide very small changes that allow IPoIB
to support RX timestamping for child interfaces, simply by hooking the mlx5e
timestamping PTP ioctl to IPoIB child interface netdev profile.

One patch from Gal to fix a spilling mistake.

Two patches from Eugenia adds drop counters to VF statistics
to be reported as part of VF statistics in netlink (iproute2) and
implemented them in mlx5 eswitch.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Peng Li says:

====================
code improvements in HNS3 driver

This patchset fixes 2 comments for community review.
[patch 1/2] reverts "net: hns3: Add packet statistics of netdev"
reported by Jakub Kicinski and David Miller.
[patch 2/2] reports the function type the same line with
hns3_nic_get_stats64, reported by Andrew Lunn.
====================
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

The function type should be on the same line with the function
name, or it may cause display error if a patch edit the
function. There is am example following:
https://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg476141.htmlSigned-off-by: Peng Li <lipeng321@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

This reverts commit 84910007.

It is duplicate to add statistics of netdev for ethtool -S.
Signed-off-by: Peng Li <lipeng321@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Jassi Brar says:

====================
Socionext Synquacer NETSEC driver

Changes since v5
	# Removed helper macros
	# Removed 'inline' qualifier
	# Changed multiline empty comment to single line
	# Added 'clock-names' property in DT binding example
	# Ignore 'clock-names' property in driver until f/ws in the wild are
	  upgraded or we support instance that take in more than one clock.
	# Rebased the patchset onto net-next

Changes since v4
        # Fixed ucode indexing as a word, instead of byte
        # Removed redundant clocks, keep only phy rate reference clock
          and expect it to be 'phy_ref_clk'

Changes since v3
        # Discard 'socionext,snq-mdio', and simply use 'mdio' subnode.
        # Use ioremap on ucode region as well, instead of memremap.

Changes since v2
        # Use 'mdio' subnode in DT bindings.
        # Use phy_interface_mode_is_rgmii(), instead of open coding the check.
        # Use readl/b with eeprom_base pointer.
        # Unregister mdio bus upon failure in probe.

Changes since v1
        # Switched from using memremap to ioremap
        # Implemented ndo_do_ioctl callback
        # Defined optional 'dma-coherent' DT property
====================
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Add entry for the Socionext Netsec controller driver and DT bindings.
Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Jassi Brar <jaswinder.singh@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

This driver adds support for Socionext "netsec" IP Gigabit
Ethernet + PHY IP used in the Synquacer SC2A11 SoC.
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Jassi Brar <jaswinder.singh@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

This patch adds documentation for Device-Tree bindings for the
Socionext NetSec Controller driver.
Reviewed-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jassi Brar <jaswinder.singh@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Jeff Kirsher says:

====================
10GbE Intel Wired LAN Driver Updates 2018-01-09

This series contains updates to ixgbe and ixgbevf only.

Emil fixes an issue with "wake on LAN"(WoL) where we need to ensure we
enable the reception of multicast packets so that WoL works for IPv6
magic packets.  Cleaned up code no longer needed with the update to
adaptive ITR.

Paul update the driver to advertise the highest capable link speed
when a module gets inserted.  Also extended the displaying of firmware
version to include the iSCSI and OEM block in the EEPROM to better
identify firmware versions/images.

Tonghao Zhang cleans up a code comment that no longer applies since
InterruptThrottleRate has been removed from the driver.

Alex fixes SR-IOV and MACVLAN offload interaction, where the MACVLAN
offload was incorrectly configuring several filters with the wrong
pool value which resulted in MACLVAN interfaces not being able to
receive traffic that had to pass over the physical interface.  Fixed
transmit hangs and dropped receive frames when the number of VFs
changed.  Added support for RSS on MACVLAN pools for X550 devices.
Fixed up the MACVLAN limitations so we can now support 63 offloaded
devices.  Cleaned up MACVLAN code that is no longer needed with the
recent changes and fixes.
====================
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Heiner Kallweit says:

====================
r8169: improve runtime pm

On my system with two network ports I found that runtime PM didn't
suspend the unused port. Therefore I checked runtime pm in this driver
in somewhat more detail and this series improves runtime pm in general
and solves the mentioned issue.

Tested on a system with RTL8168evl (MAC version 34).
====================
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

So far rpm doesn't cover cases like unused ports which are never
brought up. If they are active at probe time they remain in this state.
Included in this patch:

- Let the idle notification check whether we can suspend and let it
  schedule the suspend. This way we don't need to have calls to
  pm_schedule_suspend in different places.

- At the end of rtl_open and rtl_init_one send an idle notification
  to allow suspending if the link is down. If a cable is plugged in
  aneg is finished before the suspend timer expires and the suspend
  request is cancelled.

- Change rtl8169_runtime_suspend to power down the chip if the
  interface is down.

Successfully tested on a RTL8168evl (mac version 34).
Signed-off-by: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

This patch partially reverts commit e4fbce74 "r8169: Fix runtime
power management" from 2010. At that time the suspend delay was 100ms
and therefore suspending happened during initial aneg. Currently
suspend delay is 5s, so suspend starts after aneg and the issue
doesn't exist any longer. On my system aneg takes almost 3s, to be on
the safe side let's increase the suspend delay to 10s.
Signed-off-by: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

This patch reverts commit 2a15cd2f "r8169: runtime resume before
shutdown" from 2012. Few months after this change the underlying issue
was solved in the PCI core with commit 3ff2de9b "PCI/PM: Resume
device before shutdown".
Signed-off-by: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Jon Maloy says:

====================
tipc: improvements to group messaging

We make a number of simplifications and improvements to the group
messaging service. They aim at readability/maintainability of the code
as well as scalability.

The series is based on commit f9c935db ("tipc: fix problems with
multipoint-to-point flow control) which has been applied to 'net' but
not yet to 'net-next'.
====================
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

The current criteria for returning POLLOUT from a group member socket is
too simplistic. It basically returns POLLOUT as soon as the group has
external destinations, something obviously leading to a lot of spinning
during destination congestion situations. At the same time, the internal
congestion handling is unnecessarily complex.

We now change this as follows.

- We introduce an 'open' flag in  struct tipc_group. This flag is used
  only to help poll() get the setting of POLLOUT right, and *not* for
  congeston handling as such. This means that a user can choose to
  ignore an  EAGAIN for a destination and go on sending messages to
  other destinations in the group if he wants to.

- The flag is set to false every time we return EAGAIN on a send call.

- The flag is set to true every time any member, i.e., not necessarily
  the member that caused EAGAIN, is removed from the small_win list.

- We remove the group member 'usr_pending' flag. The size of the send
  window and presence in the 'small_win' list is sufficient criteria
  for recognizing congestion.

This solution seems to be a reasonable compromise between 'anycast',
which is normally not waiting for POLLOUT for a specific destination,
and the other three send modes, which are.
Acked-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>

When a member joins a group, it also indicates a binding scope. This
makes it possible to create both node local groups, invisible to other
nodes, as well as cluster global groups, visible everywhere.

In order to avoid that different members end up having permanently
differing views of group size and memberhip, we must inhibit locally
and globally bound members from joining the same group.

We do this by using the binding scope as an additional separator between
groups. I.e., a member must ignore all membership events from sockets
using a different scope than itself, and all lookups for message
destinations must require an exact match between the message's lookup
scope and the potential target's binding scope.

Apart from making it possible to create local groups using the same
identity on different nodes, a side effect of this is that it now also
becomes possible to create a cluster global group with the same identity
across the same nodes, without interfering with the local groups.
Acked-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>

Currently, when a user is subscribing for binding table publications,
he will receive a PUBLISH event for all already existing matching items
in the binding table.

However, a group socket making a subscriptions doesn't need this initial
status update from the binding table, because it has already scanned it
during the join operation. Worse, the multiplicatory effect of issuing
mutual events for dozens or hundreds group members within a short time
frame put a heavy load on the topology server, with the end result that
scale out operations on a big group tend to take much longer than needed.

We now add a new filter option, TIPC_SUB_NO_STATUS, for topology server
subscriptions, so that this initial avalanche of events is suppressed.
This change, along with the previous commit, significantly improves the
range and speed of group scale out operations.

We keep the new option internal for the tipc driver, at least for now.
Acked-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>