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authorLinus Lüssing <linus.luessing@web.de>2014-02-15 17:47:52 +0100
committerAntonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com>2014-03-22 09:18:57 +0100
commit1d8ab8d3c176d31530b3ffd4547cf731018e2a45 (patch)
treeb62208972cdfb70a853ff5177c29154fd165bea7 /net/batman-adv/sysfs.c
parent60432d756cf06e597ef9da511402dd059b112447 (diff)
downloadlinux-1d8ab8d3c176d31530b3ffd4547cf731018e2a45.tar.gz
batman-adv: Modified forwarding behaviour for multicast packets
With this patch a multicast packet is not always simply flooded anymore,
the behaviour for the following cases is changed to reduce
unnecessary overhead:

If all nodes within the horizon of a certain node have signalized
multicast listener announcement capability then an IPv6 multicast packet
with a destination of IPv6 link-local scope (excluding ff02::1) coming
from the upstream of this node...

* ...is dropped if there is no according multicast listener in the
  translation table,
* ...is forwarded via unicast if there is a single node with interested
  multicast listeners
* ...and otherwise still gets flooded.

Signed-off-by: Linus Lüssing <linus.luessing@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/batman-adv/sysfs.c')
-rw-r--r--net/batman-adv/sysfs.c6
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/batman-adv/sysfs.c b/net/batman-adv/sysfs.c
index e456bf6bb284..1ebb0d9e2ea5 100644
--- a/net/batman-adv/sysfs.c
+++ b/net/batman-adv/sysfs.c
@@ -539,6 +539,9 @@ BATADV_ATTR_SIF_UINT(gw_sel_class, S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR, 1, BATADV_TQ_MAX_VALUE,
 		     batadv_post_gw_reselect);
 static BATADV_ATTR(gw_bandwidth, S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR, batadv_show_gw_bwidth,
 		   batadv_store_gw_bwidth);
+#ifdef CONFIG_BATMAN_ADV_MCAST
+BATADV_ATTR_SIF_BOOL(multicast_mode, S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR, NULL);
+#endif
 #ifdef CONFIG_BATMAN_ADV_DEBUG
 BATADV_ATTR_SIF_UINT(log_level, S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR, 0, BATADV_DBG_ALL, NULL);
 #endif
@@ -558,6 +561,9 @@ static struct batadv_attribute *batadv_mesh_attrs[] = {
 #ifdef CONFIG_BATMAN_ADV_DAT
 	&batadv_attr_distributed_arp_table,
 #endif
+#ifdef CONFIG_BATMAN_ADV_MCAST
+	&batadv_attr_multicast_mode,
+#endif
 	&batadv_attr_fragmentation,
 	&batadv_attr_routing_algo,
 	&batadv_attr_gw_mode,