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authorDaniele Furlan <daniele.furlan@gmail.com>2011-06-07 00:45:55 +0200
committerSven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>2011-06-09 20:40:37 +0200
commitd1829fa0c380ccf48a7b96795a6d4a01698d02a6 (patch)
treef9d09ee6e09f700725696a31696168c5c7ec3ba5
parentbb899b89f46eb1fd6f62a4c360f6511b9714e479 (diff)
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batman-adv: accept delayed rebroadcasts to avoid bogus routing under heavy load
When a link is saturated (re)broadcasts of OGMs are delayed. Under heavy load this delay may exceed the orig interval which leads to OGMs being dropped (the code would only accept an OGM rebroadcast if it arrived before the next OGM was broadcasted). With this patch batman-adv will also accept delayed OGMs in order to avoid a bogus influence on the routing metric. Signed-off-by: Daniele Furlan <daniele.furlan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
-rw-r--r--net/batman-adv/routing.c9
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/net/batman-adv/routing.c b/net/batman-adv/routing.c
index 368ceeba8145..934f1f2f86c6 100644
--- a/net/batman-adv/routing.c
+++ b/net/batman-adv/routing.c
@@ -698,17 +698,16 @@ void receive_bat_packet(const struct ethhdr *ethhdr,
/* neighbor has to indicate direct link and it has to
* come via the corresponding interface */
- /* if received seqno equals last send seqno save new
- * seqno for bidirectional check */
+ /* save packet seqno for bidirectional check */
if (has_directlink_flag &&
compare_eth(if_incoming->net_dev->dev_addr,
- batman_packet->orig) &&
- (batman_packet->seqno - if_incoming_seqno + 2 == 0)) {
+ batman_packet->orig)) {
offset = if_incoming->if_num * NUM_WORDS;
spin_lock_bh(&orig_neigh_node->ogm_cnt_lock);
word = &(orig_neigh_node->bcast_own[offset]);
- bit_mark(word, 0);
+ bit_mark(word,
+ if_incoming_seqno - batman_packet->seqno - 2);
orig_neigh_node->bcast_own_sum[if_incoming->if_num] =
bit_packet_count(word);
spin_unlock_bh(&orig_neigh_node->ogm_cnt_lock);