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tipc: make replicast a user selectable option

If the bearer carrying multicast messages supports broadcast, those messages will be sent to all cluster nodes, irrespective of whether these nodes host any actual destinations socket or not. This is clearly wasteful if the cluster is large and there are only a few real destinations for the message being sent. In this commit we extend the eligibility of the newly introduced "replicast" transmit option. We now make it possible for a user to select which method he wants to be used, either as a mandatory setting via setsockopt(), or as a relative setting where we let the broadcast layer decide which method to use based on the ratio between cluster size and the message's actual number of destination nodes. In the latter case, a sending socket must stick to a previously selected method until it enters an idle period of at least 5 seconds. This eliminates the risk of message reordering caused by method change, i.e., when changes to cluster size or number of destinations would otherwise mandate a new method to be used.

Jon Paul Maloy committed 9 years ago

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include/uapi/linux/tipc.h+4−2
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
11 /*
22 * include/uapi/linux/tipc.h: Header for TIPC socket interface
33 *
4− * Copyright (c) 2003-2006, Ericsson AB
4+ * Copyright (c) 2003-2006, 2015-2016 Ericsson AB
55 * Copyright (c) 2005, 2010-2011, Wind River Systems
66 * All rights reserved.
77 *
@@ -220,7 +220,7 @@ struct sockaddr_tipc { · 212 unmodified lines
220220 #define TIPC_DESTNAME 3 /* destination name */
221221
222222 /*
223− * TIPC-specific socket option values
223+ * TIPC-specific socket option names
224224 */
225225
226226 #define TIPC_IMPORTANCE 127 /* Default: TIPC_LOW_IMPORTANCE */
@@ -229,6 +229,8 @@ struct sockaddr_tipc { · 2 unmodified lines
229229 #define TIPC_CONN_TIMEOUT 130 /* Default: 8000 (ms) */
230230 #define TIPC_NODE_RECVQ_DEPTH 131 /* Default: none (read only) */
231231 #define TIPC_SOCK_RECVQ_DEPTH 132 /* Default: none (read only) */
232+#define TIPC_MCAST_BROADCAST 133 /* Default: TIPC selects. No arg */
233+#define TIPC_MCAST_REPLICAST 134 /* Default: TIPC selects. No arg */
232234
233235 /*
234236 * Maximum sizes of TIPC bearer-related names (including terminating NULL)