1. 14 5月, 2012 3 次提交
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      batman-adv: improve unicast packet (re)routing · 3275e7cc
      Antonio Quartulli 提交于
      In case of a client X roaming from a generic node A to another node B, it is
      possible that a third node C gets A's OGM but not B's. At this point in time, if
      C wants to send data to X it will send a unicast packet destined to A. The
      packet header will contain A's last ttvn (C got A's OGM and so it knows it).
      
      The packet will travel towards A without being intercepted because the ttvn
      contained in its header is the newest for A.
      
      Once A will receive the packet, A's state will not report to be in a "roaming
      phase" (because, after a roaming, once A sends out its OGM, all the changes are
      committed and the node is considered not to be in the roaming state anymore)
      and it will match the ttvn carried by the packet. Therefore there is no reason
      for A to try to alter the packet's route, thus dropping the packet because the
      destination client is not there anymore.
      
      However, C is well aware that it's routing information towards the client X is
      outdated as it received an OGM from A saying that the client roamed away.
      Thanks to this detail, this patch introduces a small change in behaviour: as
      long as C is in the state of not knowing the new location of client X it will
      forward the traffic to its last known location using ttvn-1 of the destination.
      By using an older ttvn node A will be forced to re-route the packet.
      Intermediate nodes are also allowed to update the packet's destination as long
      as they have the information about the client's new location.
      Signed-off-by: NAntonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
      3275e7cc
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      batman-adv: avoid skb_linearise() if not needed · 8710e261
      Antonio Quartulli 提交于
      Whenever we want to access headers only, we do not need to linearise the whole
      packet. Instead we can use pskb_may_pull()
      Signed-off-by: NAntonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
      8710e261
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  14. 20 6月, 2011 5 次提交
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      batman-adv: protect the local and the global trans-tables with rcu · 7683fdc1
      Antonio Quartulli 提交于
      The local and the global translation-tables are now lock free and rcu
      protected.
      Signed-off-by: NAntonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
      Acked-by: NSimon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>
      Signed-off-by: NSven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
      7683fdc1
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      batman-adv: improved roaming mechanism · cc47f66e
      Antonio Quartulli 提交于
      With the current client announcement implementation, in case of roaming,
      an update is triggered on the new AP serving the client. At that point
      the new information is spread around by means of the OGM broadcasting
      mechanism. Until this operations is not executed, no node is able to
      correctly route traffic towards the client. This obviously causes packet
      drops and introduces a delay in the time needed by the client to recover
      its connections.
      
      A new packet type called ROAMING_ADVERTISEMENT is added to account this
      issue.
      
      This message is sent in case of roaming from the new AP serving the
      client to the old one and will contain the client MAC address. In this
      way an out-of-OGM update is immediately committed, so that the old node
      can update its global translation table. Traffic reaching this node will
      then be redirected to the correct destination utilising the fresher
      information. Thus reducing the packet drops and the connection recovery
      delay.
      Signed-off-by: NAntonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
      Signed-off-by: NSven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
      cc47f66e
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      batman-adv: improved client announcement mechanism · a73105b8
      Antonio Quartulli 提交于
      The client announcement mechanism informs every mesh node in the network
      of any connected non-mesh client, in order to find the path towards that
      client from any given point in the mesh.
      
      The old implementation was based on the simple idea of appending a data
      buffer to each OGM containing all the client MAC addresses the node is
      serving. All other nodes can populate their global translation tables
      (table which links client MAC addresses to node addresses) using this
      MAC address buffer and linking it to the node's address contained in the
      OGM. A node that wants to contact a client has to lookup the node the
      client is connected to and its address in the global translation table.
      
      It is easy to understand that this implementation suffers from several
      issues:
       - big overhead (each and every OGM contains the entire list of
         connected clients)
       - high latencies for client route updates due to long OGM trip time and
         OGM losses
      
      The new implementation addresses these issues by appending client
      changes (new client joined or a client left) to the OGM instead of
      filling it with all the client addresses each time. In this way nodes
      can modify their global tables by means of "updates", thus reducing the
      overhead within the OGMs.
      
      To keep the entire network in sync each node maintains a translation
      table version number (ttvn) and a translation table checksum. These
      values are spread with the OGM to allow all the network participants to
      determine whether or not they need to update their translation table
      information.
      
      When a translation table lookup is performed in order to send a packet
      to a client attached to another node, the destination's ttvn is added to
      the payload packet. Forwarding nodes can compare the packet's ttvn with
      their destination's ttvn (this node could have a fresher information
      than the source) and re-route the packet if necessary. This greatly
      reduces the packet loss of clients roaming from one AP to the next.
      Signed-off-by: NAntonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
      Signed-off-by: NMarek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
      Signed-off-by: NSven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
      a73105b8
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      batman-adv: Reduce usage of char · b4e17054
      Sven Eckelmann 提交于
      char was used in different places to store information without really
      using the characteristics of that data type or by ignoring the fact that
      char has not a well defined signedness.
      Signed-off-by: NSven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
      b4e17054
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      batman-adv: count_real_packets() in batman-adv assumes char is signed · b2c44a53
      David Howells 提交于
      count_real_packets() in batman-adv assumes char is signed, and returns -1
      through it:
      
      net/batman-adv/routing.c: In function 'receive_bat_packet':
      net/batman-adv/routing.c:739: warning: comparison is always false due to limited range of data type
      
      Use int instead.
      Signed-off-by: NDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
      [sven@narfation.org: Rebase on top of current version]
      Signed-off-by: NSven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
      b2c44a53
  15. 10 6月, 2011 1 次提交
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