tipc: introduce replicast as transport option for multicast

TIPC multicast messages are currently carried over a reliable
'broadcast link', making use of the underlying media's ability to
transport packets as L2 broadcast or IP multicast to all nodes in
the cluster.

When the used bearer is lacking that ability, we can instead emulate
the broadcast service by replicating and sending the packets over as
many unicast links as needed to reach all identified destinations.
We now introduce a new TIPC link-level 'replicast' service that does
this.

Reviewed-by: Parthasarathy Bhuvaragan <parthasarathy.bhuvaragan@ericsson.com>
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>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/net/tipc/msg.h b/net/tipc/msg.h
index f07b51e3f6f1..c843fd2bc48d 100644
--- a/net/tipc/msg.h
+++ b/net/tipc/msg.h
@@ -631,14 +631,11 @@ static inline void msg_set_bc_netid(struct tipc_msg *m, u32 id)
 
 static inline u32 msg_link_selector(struct tipc_msg *m)
 {
+        if (msg_user(m) == MSG_FRAGMENTER)
+                m = (void *)msg_data(m);
         return msg_bits(m, 4, 0, 1);
 }
 
-static inline void msg_set_link_selector(struct tipc_msg *m, u32 n)
-{
-        msg_set_bits(m, 4, 0, 1, n);
-}
-
 /*
  * Word 5
  */
@@ -835,6 +832,8 @@ int tipc_msg_build(struct tipc_msg *mhdr, struct msghdr *m,
                    int offset, int dsz, int mtu, struct sk_buff_head *list);
 bool tipc_msg_lookup_dest(struct net *net, struct sk_buff *skb, int *err);
 bool tipc_msg_reassemble(struct sk_buff_head *list, struct sk_buff_head *rcvq);
+bool tipc_msg_pskb_copy(u32 dst, struct sk_buff_head *msg,
+                        struct sk_buff_head *cpy);
 void __tipc_skb_queue_sorted(struct sk_buff_head *list, u16 seqno,
                              struct sk_buff *skb);