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    tipc: eliminate race condition at dual link establishment · 8b4ed863
    Jon Paul Maloy authored
    Despite recent improvements, the establishment of dual parallel
    links still has a small glitch where messages can bypass each
    other. When the second link in a dual-link configuration is
    established, part of the first link's traffic will be steered over
    to the new link. Although we do have a mechanism to ensure that
    packets sent before and after the establishment of the new link
    arrive in sequence to the destination node, this is not enough.
    The arriving messages will still be delivered upwards in different
    threads, something entailing a risk of message disordering during
    the transition phase.
    
    To fix this, we introduce a synchronization mechanism between the
    two parallel links, so that traffic arriving on the new link cannot
    be added to its input queue until we are guaranteed that all
    pre-establishment messages have been delivered on the old, parallel
    link.
    
    This problem seems to always have been around, but its occurrence is
    so rare that it has not been noticed until recent intensive testing.
    Reviewed-by: default avatarYing Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarErik Hugne <erik.hugne@ericsson.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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