TIPC has two internal servers, one providing a subscription
service for topology events, and another providing the
configuration interface. These servers have previously been running
in BH context, accessing the TIPC-port (aka native) API directly.
Apart from these servers, even the TIPC socket implementation is
partially built on this API.
As this API may simultaneously be called via different paths and in
different contexts, a complex and costly lock policiy is required
in order to protect TIPC internal resources.
To eliminate the need for this complex lock policiy, we introduce
a new, generic service API that uses kernel sockets for message
passing instead of the native API. Once the toplogy and configuration
servers are converted to use this new service, all code pertaining
to the native API can be removed. This entails a significant
reduction in code amount and complexity, and opens up for a complete
rework of the locking policy in TIPC.
The new service also solves another problem:
As the current topology server works in BH context, it cannot easily
be blocked when sending of events fails due to congestion. In such
cases events may have to be silently dropped, something that is
unacceptable. Therefore, the new service keeps a dedicated outbound
queue receiving messages from BH context. Once messages are
inserted into this queue, we will immediately schedule a work from a
special workqueue. This way, messages/events from the topology server
are in reality sent in process context, and the server can block
if necessary.
Analogously, there is a new workqueue for receiving messages. Once a
notification about an arriving message is received in BH context, we
schedule a work from the receive workqueue to do the job of
receiving the message in process context.
As both sending and receive messages are now finished in processes,
subscribed events cannot be dropped any more.
As of this commit, this new server infrastructure is built, but
not actually yet called by the existing TIPC code, but since the
conversion changes required in order to use it are significant,
the addition is kept here as a separate commit.
Signed-off-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
As per feedback from the netdev community, we change the buffer
overflow protection algorithm in receiving sockets so that it
always respects the nominal upper limit set in sk_rcvbuf.
Instead of scaling up from a small sk_rcvbuf value, which leads to
violation of the configured sk_rcvbuf limit, we now calculate the
weighted per-message limit by scaling down from a much bigger value,
still in the same field, according to the importance priority of the
received message.
To allow for administrative tunability of the socket receive buffer
size, we create a tipc_rmem sysctl variable to allow the user to
configure an even bigger value via sysctl command. It is a size of
three (min/default/max) to be consistent with things like tcp_rmem.
By default, the value initialized in tipc_rmem[1] is equal to the
receive socket size needed by a TIPC_CRITICAL_IMPORTANCE message.
This value is also set as the default value of sk_rcvbuf.
Originally-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com>
Cc: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com>
[Ying: added sysctl variation to Jon's original patch]
Signed-off-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com>
[PG: don't compile sysctl.c if not config'd; add Documentation]
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Add InfiniBand media type based on the ethernet media type.
The only real difference is that in case of InfiniBand, we need the entire
20 bytes of space reserved for media addresses, so the TIPC media type ID is
not explicitly stored in the packet payload.
Sample output of tipc-config:
# tipc-config -v -addr -netid -nt=all -p -m -b -n -ls
node address: <10.1.4>
current network id: 4711
Type Lower Upper Port Identity Publication Scope
0 167776257 167776257 <10.1.1:1855512577> 1855512578 cluster
167776260 167776260 <10.1.4:1216454657> 1216454658 zone
1 1 1 <10.1.4:1216479235> 1216479236 node
Ports:
1216479235: bound to {1,1}
1216454657: bound to {0,167776260}
Media:
eth
ib
Bearers:
ib:ib0
Nodes known:
<10.1.1>: up
Link <broadcast-link>
Window:20 packets
RX packets:0 fragments:0/0 bundles:0/0
TX packets:0 fragments:0/0 bundles:0/0
RX naks:0 defs:0 dups:0
TX naks:0 acks:0 dups:0
Congestion bearer:0 link:0 Send queue max:0 avg:0
Link <10.1.4:ib0-10.1.1:ib0>
ACTIVE MTU:2044 Priority:10 Tolerance:1500 ms Window:50 packets
RX packets:80 fragments:0/0 bundles:0/0
TX packets:40 fragments:0/0 bundles:0/0
TX profile sample:22 packets average:54 octets
0-64:100% -256:0% -1024:0% -4096:0% -16384:0% -32768:0% -66000:0%
RX states:410 probes:213 naks:0 defs:0 dups:0
TX states:410 probes:197 naks:0 acks:0 dups:0
Congestion bearer:0 link:0 Send queue max:1 avg:0
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Some of the comment blocks are floating in limbo between two
functions, or between blocks of code. Delete the extra line
feeds between any comment and its associated following block
of code, to be consistent with the majority of the rest of
the kernel. Also delete trailing newlines at EOF and fix
a couple trivial typos in existing comments.
This is a 100% cosmetic change with no runtime impact. We get
rid of over 500 lines of non-code, and being blank line deletes,
they won't even show up as noise in git blame.
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
As the first step in removing obsolete debugging code from TIPC the
files that implement TIPC's non-debug-related log buffer subsystem
are renamed to better reflect their true nature.
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>
Eliminates routines, data structures, and files that make up TIPC's
user registry. The user registry is no longer needed since the native
API routines that utilized it no longer exist and there are no longer
any internal TIPC services that use it.
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>
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>
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 (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>
Ying Xue
Patrick McHardy
Paul Gortmaker
Allan Stephens
Per Liden