linux/net/tipc
Jon Paul Maloy e0a05ebe26 tipc: send broadcast nack directly upon sequence gap detection
Because of the risk of an excessive number of NACK messages and
retransissions, receivers have until now abstained from sending
broadcast NACKS directly upon detection of a packet sequence number
gap. We have instead relied on such gaps being detected by link
protocol STATE message exchange, something that by necessity delays
such detection and subsequent retransmissions.

With the introduction of unicast NACK transmission and rate control
of retransmissions we can now remove this limitation. We now allow
receiving nodes to send NACKS immediately, while coordinating the
permission to do so among the nodes in order to avoid NACK storms.

Reviewed-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>
2016-09-02 17:10:25 -07:00
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addr.c tipc: simplify include dependencies 2015-05-14 12:24:45 -04:00
addr.h tipc: introduce constants for tipc address validation 2016-07-26 14:26:42 -07:00
bcast.c tipc: transfer broadcast nacks in link state messages 2016-09-02 17:10:24 -07:00
bcast.h tipc: transfer broadcast nacks in link state messages 2016-09-02 17:10:24 -07:00
bearer.c tipc: add the ability to get UDP options via netlink 2016-08-26 21:38:41 -07:00
bearer.h tipc: introduce UDP replicast 2016-08-26 21:38:41 -07:00
core.c tipc: add neighbor monitoring framework 2016-06-15 14:06:28 -07:00
core.h tipc: add neighbor monitoring framework 2016-06-15 14:06:28 -07:00
discover.c tipc: honor msg2addr return value 2016-06-29 05:17:37 -04:00
discover.h tipc: eliminate buffer leak in bearer layer 2016-04-07 17:00:13 -04:00
eth_media.c tipc: make media address offset a common define 2015-02-27 18:18:48 -05:00
ib_media.c tipc: rename media/msg related definitions 2015-02-27 18:18:48 -05:00
Kconfig tipc: add ip/udp media type 2015-03-05 22:08:42 -05:00
link.c tipc: send broadcast nack directly upon sequence gap detection 2016-09-02 17:10:25 -07:00
link.h tipc: transfer broadcast nacks in link state messages 2016-09-02 17:10:24 -07:00
Makefile tipc: add neighbor monitoring framework 2016-06-15 14:06:28 -07:00
monitor.c tipc: fix variable dereference before NULL check 2016-08-10 17:56:52 -07:00
monitor.h tipc: dump monitor attributes 2016-07-26 14:26:42 -07:00
msg.c tipc: unclone unbundled buffers before forwarding 2016-06-22 16:33:35 -04:00
msg.h tipc: transfer broadcast nacks in link state messages 2016-09-02 17:10:24 -07:00
name_distr.c tipc: purge deferred updates from dead nodes 2016-04-11 15:22:20 -04:00
name_distr.h tipc: reduce code dependency between binding table and node layer 2015-11-20 14:06:10 -05:00
name_table.c tipc: move netlink policies to netlink.c 2016-03-07 14:56:41 -05:00
name_table.h tipc: convert legacy nl name table dump to nl compat 2015-02-09 13:20:48 -08:00
net.c tipc: move netlink policies to netlink.c 2016-03-07 14:56:41 -05:00
net.h tipc: add peer removal functionality 2016-08-18 23:36:07 -07:00
netlink_compat.c tipc: fix nl compat regression for link statistics 2016-07-01 16:47:38 -04:00
netlink.c tipc: add UDP remoteip dump to netlink API 2016-08-26 21:38:41 -07:00
netlink.h tipc: make cluster size threshold for monitoring configurable 2016-07-26 14:26:42 -07:00
node.c tipc: transfer broadcast nacks in link state messages 2016-09-02 17:10:24 -07:00
node.h tipc: transfer broadcast nacks in link state messages 2016-09-02 17:10:24 -07:00
server.c tipc: Use kmemdup instead of kmalloc and memcpy 2016-06-27 09:56:58 -04:00
server.h tipc: fix a race condition leading to subscriber refcnt bug 2016-04-14 16:46:46 -04:00
socket.c tipc: fix NULL pointer dereference in shutdown() 2016-08-15 13:55:36 -07:00
socket.h tipc: redesign connection-level flow control 2016-05-03 15:51:16 -04:00
subscr.c tipc: remove an unnecessary NULL check 2016-04-28 16:54:12 -04:00
subscr.h tipc: remove struct tipc_name_seq from struct tipc_subscription 2016-02-06 03:40:43 -05:00
sysctl.c tipc: add name distributor resiliency queue 2014-09-01 17:51:48 -07:00
udp_media.c Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2016-08-30 00:54:02 -04:00
udp_media.h tipc: add UDP remoteip dump to netlink API 2016-08-26 21:38:41 -07:00