Use freelist capacity instead of freelist size while checking, if
freelist needs to be refilled
Signed-off-by: Hariprasad Shenai <hariprasad@chelsio.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Alexandre TORGUE says:
====================
stmmac: enhance driver performances and update the version
According to Giuseppe, I send the v3 series.
This is a subset of patches to rework the driver in order to improve its
performances and make it more robust under stress conditions.
All patches have been ported on STi mainstream kernel branch and
tested on ARM STiH4xx platforms and newer ones.
This series also updates the driver version and prepares it
to include further development to support new chips.
In detail, these patches are:
o to rework and improve the internal DMA bus settings
Fine tuning is mandatory on some platforms for both
performance and stability issues.
o to rework and optimize the descriptor management.
This will help a lot on performance side and preparing
the inclusion on the GMAC4.x.
o to add a set of optimizations for both xmit and rx functions.
These will help a lot on performance side and making the driver
more robust in case of low memory conditions and under some
stress test, performed for example on IP-STB.
Below some throughput figures obtained on some boxes before and after
the patches.
nuttcp (mbps) iperf (Mbps)
------------------------------------------------------------------
tcp udp tcp udp
tx rx tx rx tx rx tx rx
------------------------------------------
old 680 800 480 506 760 800 600 700
new 830 880 540 630 840 880 700 800
V2: - rx_copybreak is now managed by using ethtool.
V3: - improve comments on PCIe detailing that there are no regressions
- rework some APIs to properly define some params as bool as expected
- rework the formula to get the element inside the ring. Comparing V2,
patches 4 and 13 have been merged because the same formula have been
used. After this rework, no evident benefit has been noticed in terms
of performances so the table above is still valid. Disassembling the
code for SH4 and ARM, with the new formula just an instr is saved
(depending on compiler flags) and this gives us not so relevanti gain,
for example, on SH4 where some instr are executed in the same pipeline
stage.
Ring sizes are now fixed and maybe they can be reworked to be tuned
w/o using stmmaceth= cmdline option. Indeed, nobody change these sizes
and indeed the numbers selected by default respect the budget and
avoid to pass invalid setup. These are the best driver default sizes
for ring and chain.
====================
This patch just updates the driver to the version fully
tested on STi platforms. This version is Oct_2015.
Signed-off-by: Giuseppe Cavallaro <peppe.cavallaro@st.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexandre TORGUE <alexandre.torgue@st.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
There is a threshold now used to also limit the skb allocation
when use zero-copy. This is to avoid that there are incoherence
in the ring due to a failure on skb allocation under very
aggressive testing and under low memory conditions.
Signed-off-by: Giuseppe Cavallaro <peppe.cavallaro@st.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexandre TORGUE <alexandre.torgue@st.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This patch is to allow this driver to copy tiny frames during the reception
process. This is giving more stability while stressing the driver on STi
embedded systems.
Signed-off-by: Giuseppe Cavallaro <peppe.cavallaro@st.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexandre TORGUE <alexandre.torgue@st.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
phy_bus_name can be NULL when "fixed-link" property isn't used.
Then, since "stmmac: do not poll phy handler when attach a switch",
phy_bus_name ptr needs to be checked before strcmp is called.
Signed-off-by: Fabrice Gasnier <fabrice.gasnier@st.com>
Signed-off-by: Giuseppe Cavallaro <peppe.cavallaro@st.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexandre TORGUE <alexandre.torgue@st.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This patch avoids to call the stmmac_adjust_link when
the driver is connected to a switch by using the FIXED_PHY
support. Prior this patch the phydev->irq was set as PHY_POLL
so periodically the phy handler was invoked spending useless
time because the link cannot actually change.
Note that the stmmac_adjust_link will be called just one
time and this guarantees that the ST glue logic will be
setup according to the mode and speed fixed.
Signed-off-by: Giuseppe Cavallaro <peppe.cavallaro@st.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexandre TORGUE <alexandre.torgue@st.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This patch is to fill the first descriptor just before granting
the DMA engine so at the end of the xmit.
The patch takes care about the algorithm adopted to mitigate the
interrupts, then it fixes the last segment in case of no fragments.
Moreover, this new implementation does not pass any "ter" field when
prepare the descriptors because this is not necessary.
The patch also details the memory barrier in the xmit.
As final results, this patch guarantees the same performances
but fixing a case if small datagram are sent. In fact, this
kind of test is impacted if no coalesce is done.
Signed-off-by: Fabrice Gasnier <fabrice.gasnier@st.com>
Signed-off-by: Giuseppe Cavallaro <peppe.cavallaro@st.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexandre TORGUE <alexandre.torgue@st.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The dirty index can be updated out of the loop where all the
tx resources are claimed. This will help on performances too.
Also a useless debug printk has been removed from the main loop.
Signed-off-by: Giuseppe Cavallaro <peppe.cavallaro@st.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexandre TORGUE <alexandre.torgue@st.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This patch "inline" get_tx_owner and get_ls routines. It Results in a
unique read to tdes0, instead of three, to check TX_OWN and LS bits,
and other status bits.
It helps improve driver TX path by removing two uncached read/writes
inside TX clean loop for enhanced descriptors but not for normal ones
because the des1 must be read in any case.
Signed-off-by: Fabrice Gasnier <fabrice.gasnier@st.com>
Acked-by: Giuseppe Cavallaro <peppe.cavallaro@st.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexandre TORGUE <alexandre.torgue@st.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This patch is to optimize the way to manage the TDES inside the
xmit function. When prepare the frame, some settings (e.g. OWN
bit) can be merged. This has been reworked to improve the tx
performances.
Signed-off-by: Fabrice Gasnier <fabrice.gasnier@st.com>
Signed-off-by: Giuseppe Cavallaro <peppe.cavallaro@st.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexandre TORGUE <alexandre.torgue@st.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The RDES0 register can be read several times while doing RX of a
packet.
This patch slightly improves RX path performance by reading rdes0
once for two operation: check rx owner, get rx status bits.
Signed-off-by: Fabrice Gasnier <fabrice.gasnier@st.com>
Acked-by: Giuseppe Cavallaro <peppe.cavallaro@st.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexandre TORGUE <alexandre.torgue@st.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Optimize tx_clean by avoiding a des3 read in stmmac_clean_desc3().
In ring mode, TX, des3 seems only used when xmit a jumbo frame.
In case of normal descriptors, it may also be used for time
stamping.
Clean it in the above two case, without reading it.
Signed-off-by: Fabrice Gasnier <fabrice.gasnier@st.com>
Signed-off-by: Giuseppe Cavallaro <peppe.cavallaro@st.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexandre TORGUE <alexandre.torgue@st.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
last_segment field is read twice from dma descriptors in stmmac_clean().
Add last_segment to dma data so that this flag is from priv
structure in cache instead of memory.
It avoids reading twice from memory for each loop in stmmac_clean().
Signed-off-by: Fabrice Gasnier <fabrice.gasnier@st.com>
Signed-off-by: Giuseppe Cavallaro <peppe.cavallaro@st.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexandre TORGUE <alexandre.torgue@st.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Currently, the code pulls out the length field when
unmapping a buffer directly from the descriptor. This will result
in an uncached read to a dma_alloc_coherent() region. There is no
need to do this, so this patch simply puts the value directly into
a data structure which will hit the cache.
Signed-off-by: Fabrice Gasnier <fabrice.gasnier@st.com>
Signed-off-by: Giuseppe Cavallaro <peppe.cavallaro@st.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexandre TORGUE <alexandre.torgue@st.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This patch is to rework the ring management now optimized.
The indexes into the ring buffer are always incremented, and
the entry is accessed via doing a modulo to find the "real"
position in the ring.
It is inefficient, modulo is an expensive operation.
The formula [(entry + 1) & (size - 1)] is now adopted on
a ring that is power-of-2 in size.
Then, the number of elements cannot be set by command line but
it is fixed.
Signed-off-by: Giuseppe Cavallaro <peppe.cavallaro@st.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexandre TORGUE <alexandre.torgue@st.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This patch completely changes the descriptor layout to improve
the whole performances due to the single read usage of the
descriptors in critical paths.
Signed-off-by: Giuseppe Cavallaro <peppe.cavallaro@st.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexandre TORGUE <alexandre.torgue@st.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This patch restructures the DMA bus settings and this is done
by introducing a new platform structure used for programming
the AXI Bus Mode Register inside the DMA module.
This structure can be populated from device-tree as documented in the
binding txt file.
After initializing the DMA, the AXI register can be optionally tuned
for platform drivers based.
This patch also reworks some parameters to make coherent the DMA
configuration now that AXI register is introduced.
For example, the burst_len is managed by using the mentioned axi
support above; so the snps,burst-len parameter has been removed.
It makes sense to provide the AAL parameter from DT to Address-Aligned
Beats inside the Register0 and review the PBL settings when initialize
the engine.
For PCI glue, rebuilding the story of this setting, it
was added to align a configuration so not for fixing some
known problem. No issue raised after this patch.
It is safe to use the default burst length instead of
tuning it to the maximum value
Signed-off-by: Giuseppe Cavallaro <peppe.cavallaro@st.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexandre TORGUE <alexandre.torgue@st.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This patch is to share the same reset procedure between dwmac100 and
dwmac1000 chips.
This will also help on enhancing the driver and support new chips.
Signed-off-by: Giuseppe Cavallaro <peppe.cavallaro@st.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexandre TORGUE <alexandre.torgue@st.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Santosh Shilimkar says:
====================
RDS: Major clean-up with couple of new features for 4.6
v3:
Re-generated the same series by omitting "-D" option from git format-patch
command. Since first patch has file removals, git apply/am can't deal
with it when formated with '-D' option.
v2:
Dropped module parameter from [PATCH 11/13] as suggested by David Miller
Series is generated against net-next but also applies against Linus's tip
cleanly. Entire patchset is available at below git tree:
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ssantosh/linux.git for_4.6/net-next/rds_v2
The diff-stat looks bit scary since almost ~4K lines of code is
getting removed. Brief summary of the series:
- Drop the stale iWARP support:
RDS iWarp support code has become stale and non testable for
sometime. As discussed and agreed earlier on list, am dropping
its support for good. If new iWarp user(s) shows up in future,
the plan is to adapt existing IB RDMA with special sink case.
- RDS gets SO_TIMESTAMP support
- Long due RDS maintainer entry gets updated
- Some RDS IB code refactoring towards new FastReg Memory registration (FRMR)
- Lastly the initial support for FRMR
RDS IB RDMA performance with FRMR is not yet as good as FMR and I do have
some patches in progress to address that. But they are not ready for 4.6
so I left them out of this series.
Also am keeping eye on new CQ API adaptations like other ULPs doing and
will try to adapt RDS for the same most likely in 4.7+ timeframe.
====================
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Fastreg MR(FRMR) is another method with which one can
register memory to HCA. Some of the newer HCAs supports only fastreg
mr mode, so we need to add support for it to have RDS functional
on them.
Signed-off-by: Santosh Shilimkar <ssantosh@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Avinash Repaka <avinash.repaka@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Fastreg MR(FRMR) memory registration and invalidation makes use
of work request and completion queues for its operation. Patch
allocates extra queue space towards these operation(s).
Signed-off-by: Santosh Shilimkar <ssantosh@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Discovere Fast Memmory Registration support using IB device
IB_DEVICE_MEM_MGT_EXTENSIONS. Certain HCA might support just FRMR
or FMR or both FMR and FRWR. In case both mr type are supported,
default FMR is used.
Default MR is still kept as FMR against what everyone else
is following. Default will be changed to FRMR once the
RDS performance with FRMR is comparable with FMR. The
work is in progress for the same.
Signed-off-by: Santosh Shilimkar <ssantosh@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Drop the RDS connection on RDMA_CM_EVENT_TIMEWAIT_EXIT so that
it can reconnect and resume.
While testing fastreg, this error happened in couple of tests but
was getting un-noticed.
Signed-off-by: Santosh Shilimkar <ssantosh@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Preperatory patch for FRMR support. From connection info,
we can retrieve cm_id which contains qp handled needed for
work request posting.
We also need to drop the RDS connection on QP error states
where connection handle becomes useful.
Signed-off-by: Santosh Shilimkar <ssantosh@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Santosh Shilimkar <ssantosh@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Keep fmr related filed in its own struct. Fastreg MR structure
will be added to the union.
Signed-off-by: Santosh Shilimkar <ssantosh@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
No functional changes. This is in preperation towards adding
fastreg memory resgitration support.
Signed-off-by: Santosh Shilimkar <ssantosh@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This helps to combine asynchronous fastreg MR completion handler
with send completion handler.
No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Santosh Shilimkar <ssantosh@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: Chien Yen <chien.yen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Santosh Shilimkar <ssantosh@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The SO_TIMESTAMP generates time stamp for each incoming RDS messages
User app can enable it by using SO_TIMESTAMP setsocketopt() at
SOL_SOCKET level. CMSG data of cmsg type SO_TIMESTAMP contains the
time stamp in struct timeval format.
Reviewed-by: Sowmini Varadhan <sowmini.varadhan@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Santosh Shilimkar <ssantosh@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
RDS iWarp support code has become stale and non testable. As
indicated earlier, am dropping the support for it.
If new iWarp user(s) shows up in future, we can adapat the RDS IB
transprt for the special RDMA READ sink case. iWarp needs an MR
for the RDMA READ sink.
Signed-off-by: Santosh Shilimkar <ssantosh@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Yuval Mintz says:
====================
qed: update series
This patch series tries to improve general configuration by changing
configuration to better suit B0 boards and allow more available
resources to each physical function.
In additition, it contains some small fixes and semantic changes.
====================
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
In case of problems when initializing the chip, the error flows aren't
being properly done. Specifically, it's possible that the chip would be
left in a configuration allowing it [internally] to access the host
memory, causing fatal problems in the device that would require power
cycle to overcome.
Signed-off-by: Yuval Mintz <Yuval.Mintz@qlogic.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Current statistics logic is meant for L2, not for all future protocols.
Move this content to the proper designated file.
Signed-off-by: Yuval Mintz <Yuval.Mintz@qlogic.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
BB_A0 is a development model that is will not reach actual clients.
In fact, future firmware would simply fail to initialize such chip.
This changes the configuration into B0 instead of A0, and adds a safeguard
against the slim chance someone would actually try this with an A0 adapter
in which case probe would gracefully fail.
Signed-off-by: Yuval Mintz <Yuval.Mintz@qlogic.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Driver learns the inner bar sized from a register configured by management
firmware, but older versions are not setting this register.
But since we know which values were configured back then, use them instead.
Signed-off-by: Ram Amrani <Ram.Amrani@qlogic.com>
Signed-off-by: Yuval Mintz <Yuval.Mintz@qlogic.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The driver calls cfg80211_get_station, which may be part of a
module, so we must not enable BATMAN_ADV_BATMAN_V if
BATMAN_ADV=y and CFG80211=m:
net/built-in.o: In function `batadv_v_elp_get_throughput':
(text+0x5c62c): undefined reference to `cfg80211_get_station'
This clarifies the dependency to cover all combinations.
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Fixes: c833484e5f ("batman-adv: ELP - compute the metric based on the estimated throughput")
Acked-by: Antonio Quartulli <a@unstable.cc>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Use managed resource functions devm_kzalloc and pcim_enable_device
to simplify error handling. Subsequently, remove unnecessary
kfree, pci_disable_device and pci_release_regions.
To be compatible with the change, various gotos are replaced with
direct returns and unneeded labels are dropped.
Also, `sc` was only being freed in the probe function and not the
remove function before the change. By using devm_kzalloc this patch
also fixes this memory leak.
Signed-off-by: Amitoj Kaur Chawla <amitoj1606@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Add a wrapper function to allow stopping SW queues from MVM
as well.
Signed-off-by: Liad Kaufman <liad.kaufman@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
If d0i3 is supported, we have released the initial transport reference
in iwl_op_mode_mvm_start(), so we should take it back in
iwl_op_mode_mvm_stop() to keep it balanced.
Signed-off-by: Luca Coelho <luciano.coelho@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
If d0i3 is not supported by the firmware (or if it's disabled via
module parameters) we shouldn't release the initial transport
reference, so that we won't enter runtime suspend.
Signed-off-by: Luca Coelho <luciano.coelho@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Do not allow entrance into DQA flows until feature is
completely ready and merged.
Signed-off-by: Liad Kaufman <liad.kaufman@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
In 9000 series A0 step the closed_rb_num is not wrapping around
properly. The queue is wrapping around as it should, so we can
W/A it by wrapping the closed_rb_num in the driver.
While at it, extend RX logging and add error handling of other
cases HW values may cause us to access invalid memory locations.
Add also a proper masking of vid value read from HW - this should
not have actual affect, but better to be on the safe side.
Signed-off-by: Sara Sharon <sara.sharon@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Leaving ucode_loaded to true after stop_device() has been called
is a recipe for problems. Flows that are not sync'ed with the
driver life cycle (like debugfs hooks and thermal hooks) must
check that the firmware is loaded before they interact with it.
Therefore we need to keep this variable updated with the real
status of the firmware.
Signed-off-by: Chaya Rachel Ivgi <chaya.rachel.ivgi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
B.A.T.M.A.N. V. Its implementation started quite some years ago,
but due to the big changes being introduced it took a while to be
discussed, designed, worked, re-worked, tested and debugged (well,
we're never done with the latest). The entire operation has
basically been a team work involving all the core contributors
together with other people interested in the project.
The new protocol is divided into two main subcomponents, called
respectively ELP and OGMv2. The former is in charge of
dealing with the neighbour discovery and link quality estimation,
while the latter implements the algorithm that spreads the
metrics around the network and computes optimal paths.
The biggest change introduced with B.A.T.M.A.N. V is the new
metric: the protocol won't rely on packet loss anymore, but it
will use the estimated throughput extracted directly from the
wifi driver (when available) by querying cfg80211.
Batman-adv will also send some unicast probing packets when
an interface is not used for payload traffic to make sure that
such values are current.
The new protocol can be compiled-in or not like other
features we have and when selected will pull in CFG80211 as
dependency for the reason described above.
Thanks to the big work brought up in the past by Marek Lindner,
batman-adv can easily deal several protocol implementations,
therefore compiling in this new version does not exclude the
older.
This means that the user is offered the option to choose
the protocol when creating the mesh interface (default is the
old one to keep backward compatibility).
Along with the protocol there are some sysfs knobs that are
introduced to fine tune some of its behaviours, but users
are recommended to keep the default values unless they know
what they are doing.
The last patch is about advertising our own patchwork platform
(thanks to Sven Eckelmann for having set that up!) in the
MAINTAINERS file.
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Merge tag 'batman-adv-for-davem' of git://git.open-mesh.org/linux-merge
Antonio Quartulli says:
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batman-adv 20160229
this is our (hopefully) latest batch of patches intended for net-next.
With this patchset we finally introduce B.A.T.M.A.N. V: the latest
version of our routing protocol.
Technical documentation describing the protocol in more detail can
be found in our wiki[1][2][3][4].
For what concerns this pull request, you can find the high level
description right below.
[1] https://www.open-mesh.org/projects/batman-adv/wiki/BATMAN_V
[2] https://www.open-mesh.org/projects/batman-adv/wiki/OGMv2
[3] https://www.open-mesh.org/projects/batman-adv/wiki/ELP
[4] https://www.open-mesh.org/projects/batman-adv/wiki/BATMAN_V_Tests
...
With this patchset we finally introduce our new routing protocol:
B.A.T.M.A.N. V. Its implementation started quite some years ago,
but due to the big changes being introduced it took a while to be
discussed, designed, worked, re-worked, tested and debugged (well,
we're never done with the latest). The entire operation has
basically been a team work involving all the core contributors
together with other people interested in the project.
The new protocol is divided into two main subcomponents, called
respectively ELP and OGMv2. The former is in charge of
dealing with the neighbour discovery and link quality estimation,
while the latter implements the algorithm that spreads the
metrics around the network and computes optimal paths.
The biggest change introduced with B.A.T.M.A.N. V is the new
metric: the protocol won't rely on packet loss anymore, but it
will use the estimated throughput extracted directly from the
wifi driver (when available) by querying cfg80211.
Batman-adv will also send some unicast probing packets when
an interface is not used for payload traffic to make sure that
such values are current.
The new protocol can be compiled-in or not like other
features we have and when selected will pull in CFG80211 as
dependency for the reason described above.
Thanks to the big work brought up in the past by Marek Lindner,
batman-adv can easily deal several protocol implementations,
therefore compiling in this new version does not exclude the
older.
This means that the user is offered the option to choose
the protocol when creating the mesh interface (default is the
old one to keep backward compatibility).
Along with the protocol there are some sysfs knobs that are
introduced to fine tune some of its behaviours, but users
are recommended to keep the default values unless they know
what they are doing.
The last patch is about advertising our own patchwork platform
(thanks to Sven Eckelmann for having set that up!) in the
MAINTAINERS file.
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Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
