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Messages transferred by TIPC are assigned an "importance priority", -an integer value indicating how to treat the message when there is link or destination socket congestion. There is no separate header field for this value. Instead, the message user values have been chosen in ascending order according to perceived importance, so that the message user field can be used for this. This is not a good solution. First, we have many more users than the needed priority levels, so we end up with treating more priority levels than necessary. Second, the user field cannot always accurately reflect the priority of the message. E.g., a message fragment packet should really have the priority of the enveloped user data message, and not the priority of the MSG_FRAGMENTER user. Until now, we have been working around this problem in different ways, but it is now time to implement a consistent way of handling such priorities, although still within the constraint that we cannot allocate any more bits in the regular data message header for this. In this commit, we define a new priority level, TIPC_SYSTEM_IMPORTANCE, that will be the only one used apart from the four (lower) user data levels. All non-data messages map down to this priority. Furthermore, we take some free bits from the MSG_FRAGMENTER header and allocate them to store the priority of the enveloped message. We then adjust the functions msg_importance()/msg_set_importance() so that they read/set the correct header fields depending on user type. This small protocol change is fully compatible, because the code at the receiving end of a link currently reads the importance level only from user data messages, where there is no change. Reviewed-by: Erik Hugne <erik.hugne@ericsson.com> Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> |
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| addr.c | ||
| addr.h | ||
| bcast.c | ||
| bcast.h | ||
| bearer.c | ||
| bearer.h | ||
| core.c | ||
| core.h | ||
| discover.c | ||
| discover.h | ||
| eth_media.c | ||
| ib_media.c | ||
| Kconfig | ||
| link.c | ||
| link.h | ||
| Makefile | ||
| msg.c | ||
| msg.h | ||
| name_distr.c | ||
| name_distr.h | ||
| name_table.c | ||
| name_table.h | ||
| net.c | ||
| net.h | ||
| netlink_compat.c | ||
| netlink.c | ||
| netlink.h | ||
| node.c | ||
| node.h | ||
| server.c | ||
| server.h | ||
| socket.c | ||
| socket.h | ||
| subscr.c | ||
| subscr.h | ||
| sysctl.c | ||
| udp_media.c | ||