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authorJon Paul Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com>2014-07-16 20:41:00 -0400
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2014-07-16 21:38:18 -0700
commit078bec826f7b73cf2a2397680537bcb7e075b492 (patch)
tree8b30dce59fa8512d15a53cbcc404962c09372047 /net/tipc/msg.c
parent25b660c7e202d533e4985380b24729fd12de2b5e (diff)
tipc: add new functions for multicast and broadcast distribution
We add a new broadcast link transmit function in bclink.c and a new receive function in socket.c. The purpose is to move the branching between external and internal destination down to the link layer, just as we have done with unicast in earlier commits. We also make use of the new link-independent fragmentation support that was introduced in an earlier commit series. This gives a shorter and simpler code path, and makes it possible to obtain copy-free buffer delivery to all node local destination sockets. The new transmission code is added in parallel with the existing one, and will be used by the socket multicast send function in the next commit in this series. Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com> Reviewed-by: Erik Hugne <erik.hugne@ericsson.com> Reviewed-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/tipc/msg.c')
-rw-r--r--net/tipc/msg.c35
1 files changed, 35 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/tipc/msg.c b/net/tipc/msg.c
index ce6d929d66d2..9682296f5e7c 100644
--- a/net/tipc/msg.c
+++ b/net/tipc/msg.c
@@ -417,3 +417,38 @@ int tipc_msg_eval(struct sk_buff *buf, u32 *dnode)
msg_set_destport(msg, dport);
return TIPC_OK;
}
+
+/* tipc_msg_reassemble() - clone a buffer chain of fragments and
+ * reassemble the clones into one message
+ */
+struct sk_buff *tipc_msg_reassemble(struct sk_buff *chain)
+{
+ struct sk_buff *buf = chain;
+ struct sk_buff *frag = buf;
+ struct sk_buff *head = NULL;
+ int hdr_sz;
+
+ /* Copy header if single buffer */
+ if (!buf->next) {
+ hdr_sz = skb_headroom(buf) + msg_hdr_sz(buf_msg(buf));
+ return __pskb_copy(buf, hdr_sz, GFP_ATOMIC);
+ }
+
+ /* Clone all fragments and reassemble */
+ while (buf) {
+ frag = skb_clone(buf, GFP_ATOMIC);
+ if (!frag)
+ goto error;
+ frag->next = NULL;
+ if (tipc_buf_append(&head, &frag))
+ break;
+ if (!head)
+ goto error;
+ buf = buf->next;
+ }
+ return frag;
+error:
+ pr_warn("Failed do clone local mcast rcv buffer\n");
+ kfree_skb(head);
+ return NULL;
+}