Star64_linux/net/tipc
Jon Maloy 75da2163db tipc: introduce communication groups
As a preparation for introducing flow control for multicast and datagram
messaging we need a more strictly defined framework than we have now. A
socket must be able keep track of exactly how many and which other
sockets it is allowed to communicate with at any moment, and keep the
necessary state for those.

We therefore introduce a new concept we have named Communication Group.
Sockets can join a group via a new setsockopt() call TIPC_GROUP_JOIN.
The call takes four parameters: 'type' serves as group identifier,
'instance' serves as an logical member identifier, and 'scope' indicates
the visibility of the group (node/cluster/zone). Finally, 'flags' makes
it possible to set certain properties for the member. For now, there is
only one flag, indicating if the creator of the socket wants to receive
a copy of broadcast or multicast messages it is sending via the socket,
and if wants to be eligible as destination for its own anycasts.

A group is closed, i.e., sockets which have not joined a group will
not be able to send messages to or receive messages from members of
the group, and vice versa.

Any member of a group can send multicast ('group broadcast') messages
to all group members, optionally including itself, using the primitive
send(). The messages are received via the recvmsg() primitive. A socket
can only be member of one group at a time.

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
..
addr.c
addr.h
bcast.c tipc: improve destination linked list 2017-10-13 08:46:00 -07:00
bcast.h
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
core.h tipc: add ability to order and receive topology events in driver 2017-10-13 08:46:00 -07:00
discover.c
discover.h
eth_media.c
group.c tipc: introduce communication groups 2017-10-13 08:46:00 -07:00
group.h tipc: introduce communication groups 2017-10-13 08:46:00 -07:00
ib_media.c
Kconfig
link.c tipc: introduce communication groups 2017-10-13 08:46:00 -07:00
link.h
Makefile tipc: introduce communication groups 2017-10-13 08:46:00 -07:00
monitor.c
monitor.h
msg.c tipc: refactor function filter_rcv() 2017-10-13 08:46:00 -07:00
msg.h tipc: introduce communication groups 2017-10-13 08:46:00 -07:00
name_distr.c
name_distr.h
name_table.c tipc: introduce communication groups 2017-10-13 08:46:00 -07:00
name_table.h tipc: introduce communication groups 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
netlink.c netlink: pass extended ACK struct to parsing functions 2017-04-13 13:58:22 -04:00
netlink.h
netlink_compat.c net: tipc: constify genl_ops 2017-08-23 22:31:38 -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 communication groups 2017-10-13 08:46:00 -07:00
socket.h
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