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Jon Paul Maloy authored
The current link implementation provides several different transmit functions, depending on the characteristics of the message to be sent: if it is an iovec or an sk_buff, if it needs fragmentation or not, if the caller holds the node_lock or not. The permutation of these options gives us an unwanted amount of unnecessarily complex code. As a first step towards simplifying the send path for all messages, we introduce two new send functions at link level, tipc_link_xmit2() and __tipc_link_xmit2(). The former looks up a link to the message destination, and if one is found, it grabs the node lock and calls the second function, which works exclusively inside the node lock protection. If no link is found, and the destination is on the same node, it delivers the message directly to the local destination socket. The new functions take a buffer chain where all packet headers are already prepared, and the correct MTU has been used. These two functions will later replace all other link-level transmit functions. The functions are not backwards compatible, so we have added them as new functions with temporary names. They are tested, but have no users yet. Those will be added later in this series. 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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