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Jon Paul Maloy authored
Fragmentation at message sending is currently performed in two places in link.c, depending on whether data to be transmitted is delivered in the form of an iovec or as a big sk_buff. Those functions are also tightly entangled with the send functions that are using them. We now introduce a re-entrant, standalone function, tipc_msg_build2(), that builds a packet chain directly from an iovec. Each fragment is sized according to the MTU value given by the caller, and is prepended with a correctly built fragment header, when needed. The function is independent from who is calling and where the chain will be delivered, as long as the caller is able to indicate a correct MTU. The function is tested, but not called by anybody yet. Since it is incompatible with the existing tipc_msg_build(), and we cannot yet remove that function, we have given it a temporary name. Signed-off-by:
Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com> Reviewed-by:
Erik Hugne <erik.hugne@ericsson.com> Reviewed-by:
Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com> Signed-off-by:
David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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