17 Dec, 2011

1 commit

  • I didn't resolve the merge properly during the last pull of the net
    tree into net-next.

    The code in the final resolution should set flags to TT_CLIENT_ROAM
    not TT_CLIENT_PENDING.

    Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

    David S. Miller
     

16 Dec, 2011

1 commit


07 Dec, 2011

2 commits

  • When receiving a DEL change for a client due to a roaming event (change is
    marked with TT_CLIENT_ROAM), each node has to check if the client roamed
    to itself or somewhere else.

    In the latter case the global entry is kept to avoid having no route at all
    otherwise we can safely delete the global entry

    Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli

    Antonio Quartulli
     
  • In case of a client roaming from node A to node B, the latter have to mark the
    corresponding global entry with TT_CLIENT_ROAM (instead of TT_CLIENT_PENDING).

    Marking a global entry with TT_CLIENT_PENDING will end up in keeping such entry
    forever (because this flag is only meant to be used with local entries and it is
    never checked on global ones).

    In the worst case (all the clients roaming to the same node A) the local and the
    global table will contain exactly the same clients. Batman-adv will continue to
    work, but the memory usage is duplicated.

    Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli

    Antonio Quartulli
     

20 Nov, 2011

7 commits

  • if hash_add() fails, we should remove the structure to avoid memory
    leaks.

    Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich
    Acked-by: Antonio Quartulli
    Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann

    Simon Wunderlich
     
  • The tt_local_reset_flags() is actually used for one use case only. It is not
    generalised enough to be used indifferent situations. This patch make it general
    enough in order to let other code use it whenever a flag set is requested over
    the whole hash table (passed as parameter). The function is now called
    tt_set_flags()

    Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli
    Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann

    Antonio Quartulli
     
  • Several functions in the translation table management code assume that the
    tt_global_entry and tt_local_entry structures have the same initial fields such
    as 'addr' and 'hash_entry'. To improve the code readability and to avoid
    mistakes in later changes, a common substructure that substitute the shared
    fields has been introduced (struct tt_common_entry).

    Thanks to this modification, it has also been possible to slightly reduce the
    code length by merging some functions like compare_ltt/gtt() and
    tt_local/global_hash_find()

    Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli
    Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann

    Antonio Quartulli
     
  • When the translation tables (global and local) are written for debugfs,
    it is not neccesary to allocate a buffer, we can directly use
    seq_printf() to print them out.

    This might actually be safer if the table changes between size
    calculation and traversal, and we can't estimate the required size
    wrong.

    Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich
    Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann

    Simon Wunderlich
     
  • There are two reasons for this fix:
    - the result of choose_orig() and vis_choose() is an index and therefore it can't
    be negative. Hence it is correct to make the return type unsigned too.

    - sizeof(int) may not be the same on ALL the architectures. Since we plan to use
    choose_orig() as DHT hash function, we need to guarantee that, given the same
    argument, the result is the same. Then it is correct to explicitly express
    the size of the return type (and the second argument). Since the expected
    length is currently 4, uint32_t is the most convenient choice.

    Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli
    Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann

    Antonio Quartulli
     
  • get_orig_node() tries to retrieve an orig_node object based on a mac address
    and creates it if not present. This is not the wanted behaviour in the
    translation table code as we don't want to create new orig_code objects but
    expect a NULL pointer if the object does not exist.

    Reported-by: Simon Wunderlich
    Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli
    Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann

    Antonio Quartulli
     
  • When deleting the entries, tt_global_del_orig() has to print the message passed
    as argument instead of a static one.

    Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli
    Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann

    Antonio Quartulli
     

30 Oct, 2011

1 commit


25 Oct, 2011

3 commits


19 Oct, 2011

2 commits

  • In the TT_RESPONSE packet, the number of carried entries is not correctly set.
    This leads to a wrong interpretation of the packet payload on the receiver side
    causing random entries to be added to the global translation table. Therefore
    the latter gets always corrupted, triggering a table recovery all the time.

    Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli
    Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner

    Antonio Quartulli
     
  • Currently the counter of tt_local_entry structures (tt_local_num) is incremented
    each time the tt_local_reset_flags() is invoked causing the node to send wrong
    TT_REPONSE packets containing a copy of non-initialised memory thus corrupting
    other nodes global translation table and making higher level communication
    impossible.

    Reported-by: Junkeun Song
    Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli
    Acked-by: Junkeun Song
    Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner

    Antonio Quartulli
     

22 Aug, 2011

6 commits


08 Jul, 2011

2 commits

  • To keep consistency of other originator tables, new clients detected as
    roamed, are kept in the global table but are marked as TT_CLIENT_PENDING
    They are purged only when the new ttvn is received by the corresponding
    originator. Moreover they need to be considered as removed in case of global
    transtable lookup.

    Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli
    Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner

    Antonio Quartulli
     
  • To keep transtable consistency among all the nodes, an originator must
    not send not yet announced clients within a full table TT_RESPONSE.
    Instead, deleted client have to be kept in the table in order to be sent
    within an immediate TT_RESPONSE. In this way all the nodes in the
    network will always provide the same response for the same request.

    All the modification are committed at the next ttvn increment event.

    Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli
    Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner

    Antonio Quartulli
     

05 Jul, 2011

2 commits

  • now tt_local_event() takes a flags argument instead of a sequence of
    boolean values which would grow up with the time.

    Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli
    Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner

    Antonio Quartulli
     
  • The tt_local_entry structure now has a 'flags' field. This helps to
    unify the flags format to all the client related structures (tt_global_entry
    and tt_change). The 'never_purge' field is now encoded in the 'flags' one.
    To optimise the usage of this field, its length has been increased to 16bit
    in order to use the eight leading bits (from 0 to 7) to store flags that
    have to be sent on the wire, while the eight ending ones are used for local
    computation only.

    Moreover 'enum tt_change_flags' is now called 'enum tt_client_flags' and the
    defined values apply to the tt_local_entry, tt_global_entry and the tt_change
    'flags' field.

    Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli
    Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner

    Antonio Quartulli
     

20 Jun, 2011

3 commits

  • The local and the global translation-tables are now lock free and rcu
    protected.

    Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli
    Acked-by: Simon Wunderlich
    Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann

    Antonio Quartulli
     
  • 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: Antonio Quartulli
    Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann

    Antonio Quartulli
     
  • 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: Antonio Quartulli
    Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner
    Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann

    Antonio Quartulli
     

30 May, 2011

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12 Feb, 2011

1 commit