]> git.baikalelectronics.ru Git - kernel.git/commit
tipc: delay delete of link when failover is needed
authorJon Paul Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com>
Thu, 13 Feb 2014 22:29:16 +0000 (17:29 -0500)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Thu, 13 Feb 2014 22:57:07 +0000 (17:57 -0500)
commitcc6bfccd93f7941b28a47c048f82d9d8b5e713fd
treeebc054f8e172f038efd53cd977e78eb1ac3f78e6
parent43f7e8ae01352c3723465a06cd4e7f175f0d9da3
tipc: delay delete of link when failover is needed

When a bearer is disabled, all its attached links are deleted.
Ideally, we should do link failover to redundant links on other bearers,
if there are any, in such cases. This would be consistent with current
behavior when a link is reset, but not deleted. However, due to the
complexity involved, and the (wrongly) perceived low demand for this
feature, it was never implemented until now.

We mark the doomed link for deletion with a new flag, but wait until the
failover process is finished before we actually delete it. With the
improved link tunnelling/failover code introduced earlier in this commit
series, it is now easy to identify a spot in the code where the failover
is finished and it is safe to delete the marked link. Moreover, the test
for the flag and the deletion can be done synchronously, and outside the
most time critical data path.

Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com>
Reviewed-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
net/tipc/bearer.c
net/tipc/link.c
net/tipc/link.h
net/tipc/node.c