tipc: remove the bearer congestion mechanism

Currently at the TIPC bearer layer there is the following congestion
mechanism:

Once sending packets has failed via that bearer, the bearer will be
flagged as being in congested state at once. During bearer congestion,
all packets arriving at link will be queued on the link's outgoing
buffer.  When we detect that the state of bearer congestion has
relaxed (e.g. some packets are received from the bearer) we will try
our best to push all packets in the link's outgoing buffer until the
buffer is empty, or until the bearer is congested again.

However, in fact the TIPC bearer never receives any feedback from the
device layer whether a send was successful or not, so it must always
assume it was successful. Therefore, the bearer congestion mechanism
as it exists currently is of no value.

But the bearer blocking state is still useful for us. For example,
when the physical media goes down/up, we need to change the state of
the links bound to the bearer.  So the code maintaing the state
information is not removed.

Signed-off-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 21 deletions

diff --git a/net/tipc/bearer.h b/net/tipc/bearer.h
index dd4c2abf08e7..39f1192d04bf 100644
--- a/net/tipc/bearer.h
+++ b/net/tipc/bearer.h
@@ -120,7 +120,6 @@ struct tipc_media {
  * @identity: array index of this bearer within TIPC bearer array
  * @link_req: ptr to (optional) structure making periodic link setup requests
  * @links: list of non-congested links associated with bearer
- * @cong_links: list of congested links associated with bearer
  * @active: non-zero if bearer structure is represents a bearer
  * @net_plane: network plane ('A' through 'H') currently associated with bearer
  * @nodes: indicates which nodes in cluster can be reached through bearer
@@ -143,7 +142,6 @@ struct tipc_bearer {
         u32 identity;
         struct tipc_link_req *link_req;
         struct list_head links;
-        struct list_head cong_links;
         int active;
         char net_plane;
         struct tipc_node_map nodes;
@@ -185,39 +183,23 @@ struct sk_buff *tipc_media_get_names(void);
 struct sk_buff *tipc_bearer_get_names(void);
 void tipc_bearer_add_dest(struct tipc_bearer *b_ptr, u32 dest);
 void tipc_bearer_remove_dest(struct tipc_bearer *b_ptr, u32 dest);
-void tipc_bearer_schedule(struct tipc_bearer *b_ptr, struct tipc_link *l_ptr);
 struct tipc_bearer *tipc_bearer_find(const char *name);
 struct tipc_bearer *tipc_bearer_find_interface(const char *if_name);
 struct tipc_media *tipc_media_find(const char *name);
-int tipc_bearer_resolve_congestion(struct tipc_bearer *b_ptr,
-                                   struct tipc_link *l_ptr);
-int tipc_bearer_congested(struct tipc_bearer *b_ptr, struct tipc_link *l_ptr);
+int tipc_bearer_blocked(struct tipc_bearer *b_ptr);
 void tipc_bearer_stop(void);
-void tipc_bearer_lock_push(struct tipc_bearer *b_ptr);
-
 
 /**
  * tipc_bearer_send- sends buffer to destination over bearer
  *
- * Returns true (1) if successful, or false (0) if unable to send
- *
  * IMPORTANT:
  * The media send routine must not alter the buffer being passed in
  * as it may be needed for later retransmission!
- *
- * If the media send routine returns a non-zero value (indicating that
- * it was unable to send the buffer), it must:
- *   1) mark the bearer as blocked,
- *   2) call tipc_continue() once the bearer is able to send again.
- * Media types that are unable to meet these two critera must ensure their
- * send routine always returns success -- even if the buffer was not sent --
- * and let TIPC's link code deal with the undelivered message.
  */
-static inline int tipc_bearer_send(struct tipc_bearer *b_ptr,
-                                   struct sk_buff *buf,
+static inline void tipc_bearer_send(struct tipc_bearer *b, struct sk_buff *buf,
                                    struct tipc_media_addr *dest)
 {
-        return !b_ptr->media->send_msg(buf, b_ptr, dest);
+        b->media->send_msg(buf, b, dest);
 }
 
 #endif  /* _TIPC_BEARER_H */