linux/net/tipc
Jon Maloy ee106d7f94 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>
2017-10-13 08:46:00 -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: improve destination linked list 2017-10-13 08:46:00 -07:00
bcast.h tipc: make replicast a user selectable option 2017-01-20 12:10:17 -05:00
bearer.c tipc: remove unnecessary call to dev_net() 2017-09-06 21:25:52 -07:00
bearer.h Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2017-09-01 17:42:05 -07:00
core.c netns: make struct pernet_operations::id unsigned int 2016-11-18 10:59:15 -05:00
core.h tipc: add ability to order and receive topology events in driver 2017-10-13 08:46:00 -07:00
discover.c tipc: allocate user memory with GFP_KERNEL flag 2017-01-16 13:31:53 -05:00
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
group.c tipc: introduce group anycast messaging 2017-10-13 08:46:00 -07:00
group.h tipc: introduce group anycast messaging 2017-10-13 08:46:00 -07:00
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: introduce communication groups 2017-10-13 08:46:00 -07:00
link.h tipc: transfer broadcast nacks in link state messages 2016-09-02 17:10:24 -07:00
Makefile tipc: introduce communication groups 2017-10-13 08:46:00 -07:00
monitor.c tipc: improve sanity check for received domain records 2016-11-25 20:06:18 -05:00
monitor.h tipc: dump monitor attributes 2016-07-26 14:26:42 -07:00
msg.c tipc: refactor function filter_rcv() 2017-10-13 08:46:00 -07:00
msg.h tipc: introduce group unicast messaging 2017-10-13 08:46:00 -07:00
name_distr.c tipc: allocate user memory with GFP_KERNEL flag 2017-01-16 13:31:53 -05:00
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: introduce group anycast messaging 2017-10-13 08:46:00 -07:00
name_table.h tipc: introduce group anycast messaging 2017-10-13 08:46:00 -07:00
net.c netlink: pass extended ACK struct where available 2017-04-13 13:58:22 -04:00
net.h tipc: add peer removal functionality 2016-08-18 23:36:07 -07:00
netlink_compat.c net: tipc: constify genl_ops 2017-08-23 22:31:38 -07:00
netlink.c netlink: pass extended ACK struct to parsing functions 2017-04-13 13:58:22 -04:00
netlink.h tipc: make cluster size threshold for monitoring configurable 2016-07-26 14:26:42 -07:00
node.c tipc: add new function for sending multiple small messages 2017-10-13 08:46:00 -07:00
node.h tipc: introduce communication groups 2017-10-13 08:46:00 -07:00
server.c tipc: add ability to order and receive topology events in driver 2017-10-13 08:46:00 -07:00
server.h tipc: add ability to order and receive topology events in driver 2017-10-13 08:46:00 -07:00
socket.c tipc: introduce group anycast messaging 2017-10-13 08:46:00 -07:00
socket.h tipc: redesign connection-level flow control 2016-05-03 15:51:16 -04:00
subscr.c tipc: fix a race condition of releasing subscriber object 2017-08-22 14:25:02 -07:00
subscr.h tipc: adjust the policy of holding subscription kref 2017-03-28 18:03:33 -07:00
sysctl.c
udp_media.c netlink: pass extended ACK struct to parsing functions 2017-04-13 13:58:22 -04:00
udp_media.h tipc: add UDP remoteip dump to netlink API 2016-08-26 21:38:41 -07:00