tipc: introduce group anycast messaging
In this commit, we make it possible to send connectionless unicast messages to any member corresponding to the given member identity, when there is more than one such member. The sender must use a TIPC_ADDR_NAME address to achieve this effect. We also perform load balancing between the destinations, i.e., we primarily select one which has advertised sufficient send window to not cause a block/EAGAIN delay, if any. This mechanism is overlayed on the always present round-robin selection. Anycast messages are subject to the same start synchronization and flow control mechanism as group broadcast messages. Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com> Acked-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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