1. 24 Oct, 2015 11 commits
    • Jon Paul Maloy's avatar
      tipc: introduce capability bit for broadcast synchronization · fd556f20
      Jon Paul Maloy authored
      Until now, we have tried to support both the newer, dedicated broadcast
      synchronization mechanism along with the older, less safe, RESET_MSG/
      ACTIVATE_MSG based one. The latter method has turned out to be a hazard
      in a highly dynamic cluster, so we find it safer to disable it completely
      when we find that the former mechanism is supported by the peer node.
      
      For this purpose, we now introduce a new capabability bit,
      TIPC_BCAST_SYNCH, to inform any peer nodes that dedicated broadcast
      syncronization is supported by the present node. The new bit is conveyed
      between peers in the 'capabilities' field of neighbor discovery messages.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com>
      Reviewed-by: default avatarYing Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      fd556f20
    • Jon Paul Maloy's avatar
      tipc: let broadcast transmission use new link transmit function · 2f566124
      Jon Paul Maloy authored
      This commit simplifies the broadcast link transmission function, by
      leveraging previous changes to the link transmission function and the
      broadcast transmission link life cycle.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com>
      Reviewed-by: default avatarYing Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      2f566124
    • Jon Paul Maloy's avatar
      tipc: make struct tipc_link generic to support broadcast · c1ab3f1d
      Jon Paul Maloy authored
      Realizing that unicast is just a special case of broadcast, we also see
      that we can go in the other direction, i.e., that modest changes to the
      current unicast link can make it generic enough to support broadcast.
      
      The following changes are introduced here:
      
      - A new counter ("ackers") in struct tipc_link, to indicate how many
        peers need to ack a packet before it can be released.
      - A corresponding counter in the skb user area, to keep track of how
        many peers a are left to ack before a buffer can be released.
      - A new counter ("acked"), to keep persistent track of how far a peer
        has acked at the moment, i.e., where in the transmission queue to
        start updating buffers when the next ack arrives. This is to avoid
        double acknowledgements from a peer, with inadvertent relase of
        packets as a result.
      - A more generic tipc_link_retrans() function, where retransmit starts
        from a given sequence number, instead of the first packet in the
        transmision queue. This is to minimize the number of retransmitted
        packets on the broadcast media.
      
      When the new functionality is taken into use in the next commits,
      we expect it to have minimal effect on unicast mode performance.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com>
      Reviewed-by: default avatarYing Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      c1ab3f1d
    • Jon Paul Maloy's avatar
      tipc: use explicit allocation of broadcast send link · 32301906
      Jon Paul Maloy authored
      The broadcast link instance (struct tipc_link) used for sending is
      currently aggregated into struct tipc_bclink. This means that we cannot
      use the regular tipc_link_create() function for initiating the link, but
      do instead have to initiate numerous fields directly from the
      bcast_init() function.
      
      We want to reduce dependencies between the broadcast functionality
      and the inner workings of tipc_link. In this commit, we introduce
      a new function tipc_bclink_create() to link.c, and allocate the
      instance of the link separately using this function.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com>
      Reviewed-by: default avatarYing Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      32301906
    • Jon Paul Maloy's avatar
      tipc: make link implementation independent from struct tipc_bearer · 0e05498e
      Jon Paul Maloy authored
      In reality, the link implementation is already independent from
      struct tipc_bearer, in that it doesn't store any reference to it.
      However, we still pass on a pointer to a bearer instance in the
      function tipc_link_create(), just to have it extract some
      initialization information from it.
      
      I later commits, we need to create instances of tipc_link without
      having any associated struct tipc_bearer. To facilitate this, we
      want to extract the initialization data already in the creator
      function in node.c, before calling tipc_link_create(), and pass
      this info on as individual parameters in the call.
      
      This commit introduces this change.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com>
      Reviewed-by: default avatarYing Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      0e05498e
    • Jon Paul Maloy's avatar
      tipc: create broadcast transmission link at namespace init · 5fd9fd63
      Jon Paul Maloy authored
      The broadcast transmission link is currently instantiated when the
      network subsystem is started, i.e., on order from user space via netlink.
      
      This forces the broadcast transmission code to do unnecessary tests for
      the existence of the transmission link, as well in single mode node as
      in network mode.
      
      In this commit, we do instead create the link during initialization of
      the name space, and remove it when it is stopped. The fact that the
      transmission link now has a guaranteed longer life cycle than any of its
      potential clients paves the way for further code simplifcations
      and optimizations.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com>
      Reviewed-by: default avatarYing Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      5fd9fd63
    • Jon Paul Maloy's avatar
      tipc: move broadcast link lock to struct tipc_net · 0043550b
      Jon Paul Maloy authored
      The broadcast lock will need to be acquired outside bcast.c in a later
      commit. For this reason, we move the lock to struct tipc_net. Consistent
      with the changes in the previous commit, we also introducee two new
      functions tipc_bcast_lock() and tipc_bcast_unlock(). The code that is
      currently using tipc_bclink_lock()/unlock() will be phased out during
      the coming commits in this series.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com>
      Reviewed-by: default avatarYing Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      0043550b
    • Jon Paul Maloy's avatar
      tipc: move bcast definitions to bcast.c · 6beb19a6
      Jon Paul Maloy authored
      Currently, a number of structure and function definitions related
      to the broadcast functionality are unnecessarily exposed in the file
      bcast.h. This obscures the fact that the external interface towards
      the broadcast link in fact is very narrow, and causes unnecessary
      recompilations of other files when anything changes in those
      definitions.
      
      In this commit, we move as many of those definitions as is currently
      possible to the file bcast.c.
      
      We also rename the structure 'tipc_bclink' to 'tipc_bc_base', both
      since the name does not correctly describe the contents of this
      struct, and will do so even less in the future, and because we want
      to use the term 'link' more appropriately in the functionality
      introduced later in this series.
      
      Finally, we rename a couple of functions, such as tipc_bclink_xmit()
      and others that will be kept in the future, to include the term 'bcast'
      instead.
      
      There are no functional changes in this commit.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com>
      Reviewed-by: default avatarYing Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      6beb19a6
    • David S. Miller's avatar
      Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net · ba3e2084
      David S. Miller authored
      Conflicts:
      	net/ipv6/xfrm6_output.c
      	net/openvswitch/flow_netlink.c
      	net/openvswitch/vport-gre.c
      	net/openvswitch/vport-vxlan.c
      	net/openvswitch/vport.c
      	net/openvswitch/vport.h
      
      The openvswitch conflicts were overlapping changes.  One was
      the egress tunnel info fix in 'net' and the other was the
      vport ->send() op simplification in 'net-next'.
      
      The xfrm6_output.c conflicts was also a simplification
      overlapping a bug fix.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      ba3e2084
    • David S. Miller's avatar
      Merge branch 'for-upstream' of... · a72c9512
      David S. Miller authored
      Merge branch 'for-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bluetooth/bluetooth-next
      
      Johan Hedberg says:
      
      ====================
      pull request: bluetooth-next 2015-10-22
      
      Here's probably the last bluetooth-next pull request for 4.4. Among
      several other changes it contains the rest of the fixes & cleanups from
      the Bluetooth UnplugFest (that didn't need to be hurried to 4.3).
      
       - Refactoring & cleanups to 6lowpan code
       - New USB ids for two Atheros controllers and BCM43142A0 from Broadcom
       - Fix (quirk) for broken Broadcom BCM2045 controllers
       - Support for latest Apple controllers
       - Improvements to the vendor diagnostic message support
      
      Please let me know if there are any issues pulling. Thanks.
      ====================
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      a72c9512
    • Michael Chan's avatar
      bnxt_en: Fix compile errors when CONFIG_BNXT_SRIOV is not set. · 379a80a1
      Michael Chan authored
      struct bnxt_pf_info needs to be always defined.  Move bnxt_update_vf_mac()
      to bnxt_sriov.c and add some missing #ifdef CONFIG_BNXT_SRIOV.
      Reported-by: default avatarJim Hull <jim.hull@hpe.com>
      Tested-by: default avatarJim Hull <jim.hull@hpe.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarMichael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      379a80a1
  2. 23 Oct, 2015 29 commits