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2016-06-15tipc: add neighbor monitoring frameworkJon Paul Maloy
TIPC based clusters are by default set up with full-mesh link connectivity between all nodes. Those links are expected to provide a short failure detection time, by default set to 1500 ms. Because of this, the background load for neighbor monitoring in an N-node cluster increases with a factor N on each node, while the overall monitoring traffic through the network infrastructure increases at a ~(N * (N - 1)) rate. Experience has shown that such clusters don't scale well beyond ~100 nodes unless we significantly increase failure discovery tolerance. This commit introduces a framework and an algorithm that drastically reduces this background load, while basically maintaining the original failure detection times across the whole cluster. Using this algorithm, background load will now grow at a rate of ~(2 * sqrt(N)) per node, and at ~(2 * N * sqrt(N)) in traffic overhead. As an example, each node will now have to actively monitor 38 neighbors in a 400-node cluster, instead of as before 399. This "Overlapping Ring Supervision Algorithm" is completely distributed and employs no centralized or coordinated state. It goes as follows: - Each node makes up a linearly ascending, circular list of all its N known neighbors, based on their TIPC node identity. This algorithm must be the same on all nodes. - The node then selects the next M = sqrt(N) - 1 nodes downstream from itself in the list, and chooses to actively monitor those. This is called its "local monitoring domain". - It creates a domain record describing the monitoring domain, and piggy-backs this in the data area of all neighbor monitoring messages (LINK_PROTOCOL/STATE) leaving that node. This means that all nodes in the cluster eventually (default within 400 ms) will learn about its monitoring domain. - Whenever a node discovers a change in its local domain, e.g., a node has been added or has gone down, it creates and sends out a new version of its node record to inform all neighbors about the change. - A node receiving a domain record from anybody outside its local domain matches this against its own list (which may not look the same), and chooses to not actively monitor those members of the received domain record that are also present in its own list. Instead, it relies on indications from the direct monitoring nodes if an indirectly monitored node has gone up or down. If a node is indicated lost, the receiving node temporarily activates its own direct monitoring towards that node in order to confirm, or not, that it is actually gone. - Since each node is actively monitoring sqrt(N) downstream neighbors, each node is also actively monitored by the same number of upstream neighbors. This means that all non-direct monitoring nodes normally will receive sqrt(N) indications that a node is gone. - A major drawback with ring monitoring is how it handles failures that cause massive network partitionings. If both a lost node and all its direct monitoring neighbors are inside the lost partition, the nodes in the remaining partition will never receive indications about the loss. To overcome this, each node also chooses to actively monitor some nodes outside its local domain. Those nodes are called remote domain "heads", and are selected in such a way that no node in the cluster will be more than two direct monitoring hops away. Because of this, each node, apart from monitoring the member of its local domain, will also typically monitor sqrt(N) remote head nodes. - As an optimization, local list status, domain status and domain records are marked with a generation number. This saves senders from unnecessarily conveying unaltered domain records, and receivers from performing unneeded re-adaptations of their node monitoring list, such as re-assigning domain heads. - As a measure of caution we have added the possibility to disable the new algorithm through configuration. We do this by keeping a threshold value for the cluster size; a cluster that grows beyond this value will switch from full-mesh to ring monitoring, and vice versa when it shrinks below the value. This means that if the threshold is set to a value larger than any anticipated cluster size (default size is 32) the new algorithm is effectively disabled. A patch set for altering the threshold value and for listing the table contents will follow shortly. - This change is fully backwards compatible. Acked-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-03-05tipc: add ip/udp media typeErik Hugne
The ip/udp bearer can be configured in a point-to-point mode by specifying both local and remote ip/hostname, or it can be enabled in multicast mode, where links are established to all tipc nodes that have joined the same multicast group. The multicast IP address is generated based on the TIPC network ID, but can be overridden by using another multicast address as remote ip. Signed-off-by: Erik Hugne <erik.hugne@ericsson.com> Reviewed-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com> Reviewed-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-02-09tipc: remove tipc_snprintfRichard Alpe
tipc_snprintf() was heavily utilized by the old netlink API which no longer exists (now netlink compat). In this patch we swap tipc_snprintf() to the identical scnprintf() in the only remaining occurrence. Signed-off-by: Richard Alpe <richard.alpe@ericsson.com> Reviewed-by: Erik Hugne <erik.hugne@ericsson.com> Reviewed-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com> Reviewed-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-02-09tipc: nl compat add noop and remove legacy nl frameworkRichard Alpe
Add TIPC_CMD_NOOP to compat layer and remove the old framework. All legacy nl commands are now converted to the compat layer in netlink_compat.c. Signed-off-by: Richard Alpe <richard.alpe@ericsson.com> Reviewed-by: Erik Hugne <erik.hugne@ericsson.com> Reviewed-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com> Reviewed-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-02-09tipc: move and rename the legacy nl api to "nl compat"Richard Alpe
The new netlink API is no longer "v2" but rather the standard API and the legacy API is now "nl compat". We split them into separate start/stop and put them in different files in order to further distinguish them. Signed-off-by: Richard Alpe <richard.alpe@ericsson.com> Reviewed-by: Erik Hugne <erik.hugne@ericsson.com> Reviewed-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com> Reviewed-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-11-26tipc: remove node subscription infrastructureYing Xue
The node subscribe infrastructure represents a virtual base class, so its users, such as struct tipc_port and struct publication, can derive its implemented functionalities. However, after the removal of struct tipc_port, struct publication is left as its only single user now. So defining an abstract infrastructure for one user becomes no longer reasonable. If corresponding new functions associated with the infrastructure are moved to name_table.c file, the node subscription infrastructure can be removed as well. Signed-off-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com> Reviewed-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-08-23tipc: remove files ref.h and ref.cJon Paul Maloy
The reference table is now 'socket aware' instead of being generic, and has in reality become a socket internal table. In order to be able to minimize the API exposed by the socket layer towards the rest of the stack, we now move the reference table definitions and functions into the file socket.c, and rename the functions accordingly. There are no functional changes in this commit. 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>
2014-08-23tipc: remove source file port.cJon Paul Maloy
In this commit, we move the remaining functions in port.c to socket.c, and give them new names that correspond to their new location. We then remove the file port.c. There are only cosmetic changes to the moved functions. 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>
2014-05-05tipc: purge signal handler infrastructureYing Xue
In the previous commits of this series, we removed all asynchronous actions which were based on the tasklet handler - "tipc_k_signal()". So the moment has now come when we can completely remove the tasklet handler infrastructure. That is done with this commit. Signed-off-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com> Reviewed-by: Erik Hugne <erik.hugne@ericsson.com> Reviewed-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-06-17tipc: introduce new TIPC server infrastructureYing Xue
TIPC has two internal servers, one providing a subscription service for topology events, and another providing the configuration interface. These servers have previously been running in BH context, accessing the TIPC-port (aka native) API directly. Apart from these servers, even the TIPC socket implementation is partially built on this API. As this API may simultaneously be called via different paths and in different contexts, a complex and costly lock policiy is required in order to protect TIPC internal resources. To eliminate the need for this complex lock policiy, we introduce a new, generic service API that uses kernel sockets for message passing instead of the native API. Once the toplogy and configuration servers are converted to use this new service, all code pertaining to the native API can be removed. This entails a significant reduction in code amount and complexity, and opens up for a complete rework of the locking policy in TIPC. The new service also solves another problem: As the current topology server works in BH context, it cannot easily be blocked when sending of events fails due to congestion. In such cases events may have to be silently dropped, something that is unacceptable. Therefore, the new service keeps a dedicated outbound queue receiving messages from BH context. Once messages are inserted into this queue, we will immediately schedule a work from a special workqueue. This way, messages/events from the topology server are in reality sent in process context, and the server can block if necessary. Analogously, there is a new workqueue for receiving messages. Once a notification about an arriving message is received in BH context, we schedule a work from the receive workqueue to do the job of receiving the message in process context. As both sending and receive messages are now finished in processes, subscribed events cannot be dropped any more. As of this commit, this new server infrastructure is built, but not actually yet called by the existing TIPC code, but since the conversion changes required in order to use it are significant, the addition is kept here as a separate commit. Signed-off-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-06-17tipc: change socket buffer overflow control to respect sk_rcvbufYing Xue
As per feedback from the netdev community, we change the buffer overflow protection algorithm in receiving sockets so that it always respects the nominal upper limit set in sk_rcvbuf. Instead of scaling up from a small sk_rcvbuf value, which leads to violation of the configured sk_rcvbuf limit, we now calculate the weighted per-message limit by scaling down from a much bigger value, still in the same field, according to the importance priority of the received message. To allow for administrative tunability of the socket receive buffer size, we create a tipc_rmem sysctl variable to allow the user to configure an even bigger value via sysctl command. It is a size of three (min/default/max) to be consistent with things like tcp_rmem. By default, the value initialized in tipc_rmem[1] is equal to the receive socket size needed by a TIPC_CRITICAL_IMPORTANCE message. This value is also set as the default value of sk_rcvbuf. Originally-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com> Cc: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> Cc: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com> [Ying: added sysctl variation to Jon's original patch] Signed-off-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com> [PG: don't compile sysctl.c if not config'd; add Documentation] Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-04-17tipc: add InfiniBand media typePatrick McHardy
Add InfiniBand media type based on the ethernet media type. The only real difference is that in case of InfiniBand, we need the entire 20 bytes of space reserved for media addresses, so the TIPC media type ID is not explicitly stored in the packet payload. Sample output of tipc-config: # tipc-config -v -addr -netid -nt=all -p -m -b -n -ls node address: <10.1.4> current network id: 4711 Type Lower Upper Port Identity Publication Scope 0 167776257 167776257 <10.1.1:1855512577> 1855512578 cluster 167776260 167776260 <10.1.4:1216454657> 1216454658 zone 1 1 1 <10.1.4:1216479235> 1216479236 node Ports: 1216479235: bound to {1,1} 1216454657: bound to {0,167776260} Media: eth ib Bearers: ib:ib0 Nodes known: <10.1.1>: up Link <broadcast-link> Window:20 packets RX packets:0 fragments:0/0 bundles:0/0 TX packets:0 fragments:0/0 bundles:0/0 RX naks:0 defs:0 dups:0 TX naks:0 acks:0 dups:0 Congestion bearer:0 link:0 Send queue max:0 avg:0 Link <10.1.4:ib0-10.1.1:ib0> ACTIVE MTU:2044 Priority:10 Tolerance:1500 ms Window:50 packets RX packets:80 fragments:0/0 bundles:0/0 TX packets:40 fragments:0/0 bundles:0/0 TX profile sample:22 packets average:54 octets 0-64:100% -256:0% -1024:0% -4096:0% -16384:0% -32768:0% -66000:0% RX states:410 probes:213 naks:0 defs:0 dups:0 TX states:410 probes:197 naks:0 acks:0 dups:0 Congestion bearer:0 link:0 Send queue max:1 avg:0 Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-04-30tipc: compress out gratuitous extra carriage returnsPaul Gortmaker
Some of the comment blocks are floating in limbo between two functions, or between blocks of code. Delete the extra line feeds between any comment and its associated following block of code, to be consistent with the majority of the rest of the kernel. Also delete trailing newlines at EOF and fix a couple trivial typos in existing comments. This is a 100% cosmetic change with no runtime impact. We get rid of over 500 lines of non-code, and being blank line deletes, they won't even show up as noise in git blame. Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2011-01-01tipc: rename dbg.[ch] to log.[ch]Allan Stephens
As the first step in removing obsolete debugging code from TIPC the files that implement TIPC's non-debug-related log buffer subsystem are renamed to better reflect their true nature. Signed-off-by: Allan Stephens <Allan.Stephens@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-01-01tipc: Remove user registry subsystemAllan Stephens
Eliminates routines, data structures, and files that make up TIPC's user registry. The user registry is no longer needed since the native API routines that utilized it no longer exist and there are no longer any internal TIPC services that use it. Signed-off-by: Allan Stephens <Allan.Stephens@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-01-01tipc: Remove prototype code for supporting multiple clustersAllan Stephens
Eliminates routines, data structures, and files that were intended to allow TIPC to support a network containing multiple clusters. Currently, TIPC supports only networks consisting of a single cluster within a single zone, so this code is unnecessary. Signed-off-by: Allan Stephens <Allan.Stephens@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-01-01tipc: Remove prototype code for supporting multiple zonesAllan Stephens
Eliminates routines, data structures, and files that were intended to allows TIPC to support a network containing multiple zones. Currently, TIPC supports only networks consisting of a single cluster within a single zone, so this code is unnecessary. Signed-off-by: Allan Stephens <Allan.Stephens@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-01-12[TIPC] Initial mergePer Liden
TIPC (Transparent Inter Process Communication) is a protocol designed for intra cluster communication. For more information see http://tipc.sourceforge.net Signed-off-by: Per Liden <per.liden@nospam.ericsson.com>