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| author | Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com> | 2017-10-13 11:04:28 +0200 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2017-10-13 08:46:00 -0700 |
| commit | ee106d7f942dabce1352e01c6fe9ca4a720c2331 (patch) | |
| tree | 411914c242c51f520229cb4506680be7b6c56872 /net/tipc/name_table.h | |
| parent | 27bd9ec027f396457d1a147043c92ff22fc4c71e (diff) | |
tipc: introduce group anycast messaging
In this commit, we make it possible to send connectionless unicast
messages to any member corresponding to the given member identity,
when there is more than one such member. The sender must use a
TIPC_ADDR_NAME address to achieve this effect.
We also perform load balancing between the destinations, i.e., we
primarily select one which has advertised sufficient send window
to not cause a block/EAGAIN delay, if any. This mechanism is
overlayed on the always present round-robin selection.
Anycast messages are subject to the same start synchronization
and flow control mechanism as group broadcast messages.
Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com>
Acked-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/tipc/name_table.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/tipc/name_table.h | 3 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/tipc/name_table.h b/net/tipc/name_table.h index 97646b17a4a2..71926e429446 100644 --- a/net/tipc/name_table.h +++ b/net/tipc/name_table.h @@ -107,6 +107,9 @@ void tipc_nametbl_build_group(struct net *net, struct tipc_group *grp, void tipc_nametbl_lookup_dst_nodes(struct net *net, u32 type, u32 lower, u32 upper, u32 domain, struct tipc_nlist *nodes); +bool tipc_nametbl_lookup(struct net *net, u32 type, u32 instance, u32 domain, + struct list_head *dsts, int *dstcnt, u32 exclude, + bool all); struct publication *tipc_nametbl_publish(struct net *net, u32 type, u32 lower, u32 upper, u32 scope, u32 port_ref, u32 key); |