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Antonio Quartulli
29824a55c0 batman-adv: split routing API data structure in subobjects
The routing API data structure contains several function
pointers that can easily be grouped together based on the
component they work with.

Split the API in subobjects in order to improve definition readability.

At the same time, remove the "bat_" prefix from the API object and
its fields names. These are batman-adv private structs and there is no
need to always prepend such prefix, which only makes function invocations
much much longer.

Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <a@unstable.cc>
Reviewed-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
2016-07-04 12:37:19 +02:00
Sven Eckelmann
ba412080fb batman-adv: Consolidate logging related functions
There are several places in batman-adv which provide logging related
functions. These should be grouped together in the log.* files to make them
easier to find.

Reported-by: Markus Pargmann <mpa@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
2016-06-30 10:29:43 +02:00
Sven Eckelmann
fcafa5e74b batman-adv: Keep includes ordered by filename
It is easier to detect if a include is already there for a used
functionality when the includes are ordered. Using an alphabetic order
together with the grouping in commit 1e2c2a4fe4 ("batman-adv: Add
required includes to all files") makes includes better manageable.

Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
2016-06-30 10:29:43 +02:00
Antonio Quartulli
3a24a63e74 batman-adv: move GW mode and selection class to private data structure
To reduce the field pollution in our main batadv_priv data structure
we've already created some substructures so that we could group fields
in a convenient manner.

However gw_mode and gw_sel_class are still part of the main object.

More both fields to the GW private substructure.

Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <a@unstable.cc>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
2016-06-30 10:29:43 +02:00
Antonio Quartulli
c149ca72e5 batman-adv: remove useless inline attribute for sysfs helper function
the compiler can optimize functions within the same C file and therefore
there is no need to make it explicit.

Remove the useless inline attribute for __batadv_store_uint_attr()

Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <a@unstable.cc>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
2016-06-30 10:29:43 +02:00
Simon Wunderlich
cd9c7bfbba batman-adv: add detection for complex bridge loops
There are network setups where the current bridge loop avoidance can't
detect bridge loops. The minimal setup affected would consist of two
LANs and two separate meshes, connected in a ring like that:

   A...(mesh1)...B
   |             |
 (LAN1)        (LAN2)
   |             |
   C...(mesh2)...D

Since both the meshes and backbones are separate, the bridge loop
avoidance has not enough information to detect and avoid the loop
in this case. Even if these scenarios can't be fixed easily,
these kind of loops can be detected.

This patch implements a periodic check (running every 60 seconds for
now) which sends a broadcast frame with a random MAC address on
each backbone VLAN. If a broadcast frame with the same MAC address
is received shortly after on the mesh, we know that there must be a
loop and report that incident as well as throw an uevent to let others
handle that problem.

Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <simon.wunderlich@open-mesh.com>
[sven@narfation.org: fix conflicts with current version]
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <a@unstable.cc>
2016-05-10 18:26:45 +08:00
Andrew Lunn
2cd45a0671 batman-adv: Create batman soft interfaces within correct netns.
When creating a soft interface, create it in the same netns as the
hard interface. Replace all references to init_net with the correct
name space for the interface being manipulated.

Suggested-by: Daniel Ehlers <danielehlers@mindeye.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Acked-by: Antonio Quartulli <a@unstable.cc>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <a@unstable.cc>
2016-05-10 18:26:44 +08:00
Antonio Quartulli
0b5ecc6811 batman-adv: add throughput override attribute to hard_ifaces
This attribute is exported to user space to disable the link
throughput auto-detection by setting a fixed value.
The throughput override value is used when batman-adv is
computing the link throughput towards a neighbour.

If the value is set to 0 then batman-adv will try to detect
the throughput by itself.

Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@open-mesh.com>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
2016-02-29 16:05:32 +08:00
Linus Luessing
7f136cd491 batman-adv: ELP - adding sysfs parameter for elp interval
This parameter can be set individually on each interface and
allows the configuration of the elp interval for the link
quality measurements during runtime. Usually it is desirable
to set it to a higher (= slower) value on interfaces which
have a more static characteristic (e.g. wired interfaces)
or very dense neighbourhoods to reduce overhead.

Developed by Linus during a 6 months trainee study period in
Ascom (Switzerland) AG.

Signed-off-by: Linus Luessing <linus.luessing@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
[antonio@open-mesh.com: respin on top of the latest master]
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@open-mesh.com>
2016-02-29 16:05:30 +08:00
Linus Luessing
0744ff8fa8 batman-adv: Add hard_iface specific sysfs wrapper macros for UINT
This allows us to easily add a sysfs parameter for an
unsigned int later, which is not for a batman mesh interface
(e.g. bat0), but for a common interface instead. It allows
reading and writing an atomic_t in hard_iface (instead of
bat_priv compared to the mesh variant).

Developed by Linus during a 6 months trainee study period in
Ascom (Switzerland) AG.

Signed-off-by: Linus Luessing <linus.luessing@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
[antonio@open-mesh.com: rename functions and move macros]
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@open-mesh.com>
2016-02-29 16:05:29 +08:00
Sven Eckelmann
9c3bf08189 batman-adv: Rename batadv_softif_vlan *_free_ref function to *_put
The batman-adv source code is the only place in the kernel which uses the
*_free_ref naming scheme for the *_put functions. Changing it to *_put
makes it more consistent and makes it easier to understand the connection
to the *_get functions.

Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <a@unstable.cc>
2016-02-23 13:49:10 +08:00
Sven Eckelmann
82047ad7fe batman-adv: Rename batadv_hardif *_free_ref function to *_put
The batman-adv source code is the only place in the kernel which uses the
*_free_ref naming scheme for the *_put functions. Changing it to *_put
makes it more consistent and makes it easier to understand the connection
to the *_get functions.

Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <a@unstable.cc>
2016-02-23 13:48:24 +08:00
Sven Eckelmann
6be4d30c18 batman-adv: Convert batadv_softif_vlan to kref
batman-adv uses a self-written reference implementation which is just based
on atomic_t. This is less obvious when reading the code than kref and
therefore increases the change that the reference counting will be missed.

Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <a@unstable.cc>
2016-02-10 23:23:59 +08:00
Sven Eckelmann
0046b0402a batman-adv: update copyright years for 2016
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <a@unstable.cc>
2016-02-02 12:55:10 +08:00
Sven Eckelmann
7afcbbef64 batman-adv: Fix kerneldoc of main functions
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <a@unstable.cc>
2016-02-02 12:40:31 +08:00
Sven Eckelmann
62fe710f6e batman-adv: Fix kerneldoc parsing of return description
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <a@unstable.cc>
2016-02-02 12:40:31 +08:00
Sven Eckelmann
f34ac9d4ec batman-adv: Drop invalid kerneldoc for variable batadv_vlan_attrs
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <a@unstable.cc>
2016-02-02 12:40:29 +08:00
Simon Wunderlich
9e728e8438 batman-adv: only call post function if something changed
Currently, the post function is also called on errors or if there were
no changes, which is redundant for the functions currently using these
facilities.

Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <simon@open-mesh.com>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <a@unstable.cc>
2016-01-09 20:56:00 +08:00
Simon Wunderlich
d68081a240 batman-adv: purge bridge loop avoidance when its disabled
When bridge loop avoidance is disabled through sysfs, the internal
datastructures are not disabled, but only BLA operations are disabled.
To be sure that they are removed, purge the data immediately. That is
especially useful if a firmwares network state is changed, and the BLA
wait periods should restart on the new network.

Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <simon@open-mesh.com>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <a@unstable.cc>
2016-01-09 20:56:00 +08:00
Sven Eckelmann
6b5e971a28 batman-adv: Replace C99 int types with kernel type
(s|u)(8|16|32|64) are the preferred types in the kernel. The use of the
standard C99 types u?int(8|16|32|64)_t are objected by some people and even
checkpatch now warns about using them.

Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com>
2015-08-25 00:12:17 +02:00
Sven Eckelmann
1e2c2a4fe4 batman-adv: Add required includes to all files
The header files could not be build indepdent from each other. This is
happened because headers didn't include the files for things they've used.
This was problematic because the success of a build depended on the
knowledge about the right order of local includes.

Also source files were not including everything they've used explicitly.
Instead they required that transitive includes are always stable. This is
problematic because some transitive includes are not obvious, depend on
config settings and may not be stable in the future.

The order for include blocks are:

 * primary headers (main.h and the *.h file of a *.c file)
 * global linux headers
 * required local headers
 * extra forward declarations for pointers in function/struct declarations

The only exceptions are linux/bitops.h and linux/if_ether.h in packet.h.
This header file is shared with userspace applications like batctl and must
therefore build together with userspace applications. The header
linux/bitops.h is not part of the uapi headers and linux/if_ether.h
conflicts with the musl implementation of netinet/if_ether.h. The
maintainers rejected the use of __KERNEL__ preprocessor checks and thus
these two headers are only in main.h. All files using packet.h first have
to include main.h to work correctly.

Reported-by: Markus Pargmann <mpa@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
2015-06-07 17:07:19 +02:00
Antonio Quartulli
6f70eb7552 batman-adv: split name from variable for uint mesh attributes
Some mesh attributes are behind substructs in the
batadv_priv object and for this reason the name cannot be
used anymore to refer to them.

This patch allows to specify the variable name where the
attribute is stored inside batadv_priv instead of using the
name

Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@open-mesh.com>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
2015-06-07 17:07:18 +02:00
Sven Eckelmann
9f6446c7f9 batman-adv: update copyright years for 2015
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
2015-05-29 10:13:35 +02:00
Antonio Quartulli
8a3f8b6ac5 batman-adv: checkpatch - Please don't use multiple blank lines
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
2015-01-07 17:21:56 +01:00
Himangi Saraogi
b98fe24ca7 batman-adv: Use kasprintf
kasprintf combines kmalloc and sprintf, and takes care of the size
calculation itself.

The semantic patch that makes this change is as follows:

// <smpl>
@@
expression a,flag;
expression list args;
statement S;
@@

  a =
-  \(kmalloc\|kzalloc\)(...,flag)
+  kasprintf(flag,args)
  <... when != a
  if (a == NULL || ...) S
  ...>
- sprintf(a,args);
// </smpl>

Signed-off-by: Himangi Saraogi <himangi774@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-07-07 17:00:31 -07:00
Antonio Quartulli
2b64df2058 batman-adv: remove semi-colon after macro definition
Reported by checkpatch with the following warning:
"WARNING: macros should not use a trailing semicolon"

Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
2014-05-18 15:04:00 +02:00
Antonio Quartulli
f138694b15 batman-adv: add blank line between declarations and the rest of the code
Reported by checkpatch with the following message:
"WARNING: Missing a blank line after declarations"

Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
2014-05-18 15:03:52 +02:00
Linus Lüssing
1d8ab8d3c1 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>
2014-03-22 09:18:57 +01:00
Simon Wunderlich
e19f9759ed batman-adv: update copyright years for 2014
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com>
2014-01-12 14:41:19 +01:00
Antonio Quartulli
c42edfe382 batman-adv: add isolation_mark sysfs attribute
This attribute can be used to set and read the value and the
mask of the skb mark which will be used to classify the
source non-mesh client as ISOLATED. In this way a client can
be advertised as such and the mark can potentially be
restored at the receiving node before delivering the skb.

This can be helpful for creating network wide netfilter
policies.

This sysfs file expects a string of the shape "$mark/$mask".
Where $mark has to be a 32-bit number in any base, while
$mask must be a 32bit mask expressed in hex base. Only bits
in $mark covered by the bitmask are really stored.

Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@open-mesh.com>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
2014-01-08 20:49:42 +01:00
Antonio Quartulli
4e820e72db batman-adv: rename gw_deselect() to gw_reselect()
The function batadv_gw_deselect() is actually not deselecting
anything. It is just informing the GW code to perform a
re-election procedure when possible.
The current gateway is not being touched at all and therefore
the name of this function is rather misleading.

Rename it to batadv_gw_reselect() to batadv_gw_reselect()
to make its behaviour easier to grasp.

Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@open-mesh.com>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
2014-01-08 20:49:41 +01:00
Antonio Quartulli
f316318157 batman-adv: deselect current GW on client mode switch off
When switching from gw_mode client to either off or server
the current selected gateway has to be deselected.
In this way when client mode is enabled again a gateway
re-election is forced and a GW_ADD event is consequently
sent.

The current behaviour instead is to keep the current gateway
leading to no GW_ADD event when gw_mode client is selected
for a second time

Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@open-mesh.com>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com>
2014-01-08 20:49:40 +01:00
Antonio Quartulli
ebf38fb7ab batman-adv: remove FSF address from GPL disclaimer
As suggested by checkpatch, remove all the references to the
FSF address since the kernel already has one reference in
its documentation.

In this way it is easier to update it in case of future
changes.

Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
2014-01-08 20:49:39 +01:00
Antonio Quartulli
b8cbd81d09 batman-adv: make the AP isolation attribute VLAN specific
AP isolation has to be enabled on one VLAN interface only.
This patch moves the AP isolation attribute to the per-vlan
interface attribute set, enabling it to have a different
value depending on the selected vlan.

Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@open-mesh.com>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
2013-10-19 17:28:47 +02:00
Antonio Quartulli
90f4435da4 batman-adv: add sysfs framework for VLAN
Each VLAN can now have its own set of attributes which are
exported through a new subfolder in the sysfs tree.
Each VLAN created on top of a soft_iface will have its own
subfolder.

The subfolder is named "vlan%VID" and it is created inside
the "mesh" sysfs folder belonging to batman-adv.

Attributes corresponding to the untagged LAN are stored in
the root sysfs folder as before.

This patch also creates all the needed macros and data
structures to easily handle new VLAN spacific attributes.

Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@open-mesh.com>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
2013-10-19 17:28:42 +02:00
Simon Wunderlich
9f4980e68b batman-adv: remove vis functionality
This is replaced by a userspace program, we don't need this
functionality to bloat the kernel.

Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com>
2013-10-09 21:22:32 +02:00
Marek Lindner
3f4841ffb3 batman-adv: tvlv - add network coding container
Create network coding container to announce network coding
capabilities (if enabled).

Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com>
2013-10-09 21:22:28 +02:00
Marek Lindner
17cf0ea455 batman-adv: tvlv - add distributed arp table container
Create DAT container to announce DAT capabilities (if enabled).

Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com>
2013-10-09 21:22:27 +02:00
Marek Lindner
414254e342 batman-adv: tvlv - gateway download/upload bandwidth container
Prior to this patch batman-adv read the advertised uplink bandwidth
from userspace and compressed this information into a single byte
called "gateway class".
Now the download & upload bandwidth information is sent as-is. No
userspace change is necessary since the sysfs API always allowed
to specify a bandwidth.

Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
Signed-off-by: Spyros Gasteratos <morfeas3000@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com>
2013-10-09 21:22:27 +02:00
Antonio Quartulli
c6eaa3f067 batman-adv: send GW_DEL event when the gw client mode is deselected
Whenever the GW client mode is deselected, a DEL event has
to be sent in order to tell userspace that the current
gateway has been lost. Send the uevent on state change only
if a gateway was currently selected.

Reported-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@open-mesh.com>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
2013-08-28 11:33:00 +02:00
Matthias Schiffer
ac16d1484e batman-adv: wait for rtnl in batadv_store_mesh_iface instead of failing if it is taken
The rtnl_lock in batadv_store_mesh_iface has been converted to a rtnl_trylock
some time ago to avoid a possible deadlock between rtnl and s_active on removal
of the sysfs nodes.

The behaviour introduced by that was quite confusing as it could lead to the
sysfs store to fail, making batman-adv setup scripts unreliable. As recently the
sysfs removal was postponed to a worker not running with the rtnl taken, the
deadlock can't occur any more and it is safe to change the trylock back to a
lock to make the sysfs store reliable again.

Signed-off-by: Matthias Schiffer <mschiffer@universe-factory.net>
Reviewed-by: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
2013-06-10 08:42:16 +02:00
Sven Eckelmann
a15fd3612d batman-adv: Don't always delete softif when last slave was removed
batman-adv has an unusual way to manage softinterfaces. These will be created
automatically when a user writes to the batman-adv/mesh_iface file in sysfs and
removed when no slave device exists anymore.

This behaviour cannot be changed without breaking compatibility with existing
code. Instead other interfaces should be able to slightly reduce this behaviour
and provide a more common reaction to a removal of a slave interface.

Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
Acked-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
2013-03-27 10:27:32 +01:00
Martin Hundebøll
d353d8d4d9 batman-adv: network coding - add the initial infrastructure code
Network coding exploits the 802.11 shared medium to allow multiple
packets to be sent in a single transmission. In brief, a relay can XOR
two packets, and send the coded packet to two destinations. The
receivers can decode one of the original packets by XOR'ing the coded
packet with the other original packet. This will lead to increased
throughput in topologies where two packets cross one relay.

In a simple topology with three nodes, it takes four transmissions
without network coding to get one packet from Node A to Node B and one
from Node B to Node A:

 1.  Node A  ---- p1 --->  Node R                Node B
 2.  Node A                Node R  <--- p2 ----  Node B
 3.  Node A  <--- p2 ----  Node R                Node B
 4.  Node A                Node R  ---- p1 --->  Node B

With network coding, the relay only needs one transmission, which saves
us one slot of valuable airtime:

 1.  Node A  ---- p1 --->  Node R                Node B
 2.  Node A                Node R  <--- p2 ----  Node B
 3.  Node A  <- p1 x p2 -  Node R  - p1 x p2 ->  Node B

The same principle holds for a topology including five nodes. Here the
packets from Node A and Node B are overheard by Node C and Node D,
respectively. This allows Node R to send a network coded packet to save
one transmission:

   Node A                  Node B

    |     \              /    |
    |      p1          p2     |
    |       \          /      |
    p1       > Node R <       p2
    |                         |
    |         /      \        |
    |    p1 x p2    p1 x p2   |
    v       /          \      v
           /            \
   Node C <              > Node D

More information is available on the open-mesh.org wiki[1].

This patch adds the initial code to support network coding in
batman-adv. It sets up a worker thread to do house keeping and adds a
sysfs file to enable/disable network coding. The feature is disabled by
default, as it requires a wifi-driver with working promiscuous mode, and
also because it adds a small delay at each hop.

[1] http://www.open-mesh.org/projects/batman-adv/wiki/Catwoman

Signed-off-by: Martin Hundebøll <martin@hundeboll.net>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
2013-03-13 22:53:48 +01:00
Marek Lindner
736292c2e8 batman-adv: replace redundant primary_if_get calls
The batadv_priv struct carries a pointer to its own interface
struct. Therefore, it is not necessary to retrieve the soft_iface
via the primary interface.

Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
2013-03-13 22:53:47 +01:00
Antonio Quartulli
0b87393146 batman-adv: update copyright years
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
2013-01-19 21:18:12 +08:00
Sven Eckelmann
170173bf37 batman-adv: Remove instant overwritten variable initialization
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
2012-11-14 21:00:37 +01:00
Antonio Quartulli
33af49ad8a batman-adv: Distributed ARP Table - add runtime switch
This patch adds a runtime switch that enables the user to turn the DAT feature
on or off at runtime

Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
2012-11-07 20:00:22 +01:00
Sven Eckelmann
f03a13a716 batman-adv: Remove unused define BAT_ATTR_HIF_UINT
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
2012-10-29 09:42:21 +01:00
Sven Eckelmann
b706b13b6c batman-adv: Remove bat_ prefix from bat_{debugfs, sysfs}.{c, h}
The "bat_" prefix in the source files implementing the batman-adv sysfs and
debugfs interface doesn't have a special meaning and are only used by these
files and files that implement the actual B.A.T.M.A.N. path finding algorithm.

The prefix is better suited to mark files that are used to implement the main
part of the path finding. All other files should not use it and therefore gets
renamed.

Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
2012-07-01 22:47:22 +02:00