1. 07 Dec, 2012 5 commits
    • Ying Xue's avatar
      tipc: introduce non-blocking socket connect · 584d24b3
      Ying Xue authored
      TIPC has so far only supported blocking connect(), meaning that a call
      to connect() doesn't return until either the connection is fully
      established, or an error occurs. This has proved insufficient for many
      users, so we now introduce non-blocking connect(), analogous to how
      this is done in TCP and other protocols.
      
      With this feature, if a connection cannot be established instantly,
      connect() will return the error code "-EINPROGRESS".
      If the user later calls connect() again, he will either have the
      return code "-EALREADY" or "-EISCONN", depending on whether the
      connection has been established or not.
      
      The user must have explicitly set the socket to be non-blocking
      (SOCK_NONBLOCK or O_NONBLOCK, depending on method used), so unless
      for some reason they had set this already (the socket would anyway
      remain blocking in current TIPC) this change should be completely
      backwards compatible.
      
      It is also now possible to call select() or poll() to wait for the
      completion of a connection.
      
      An effect of the above is that the actual completion of a connection
      may now be performed asynchronously, independent of the calls from
      user space. Therefore, we now execute this code in BH context, in
      the function filter_rcv(), which is executed upon reception of
      messages in the socket.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarYing Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com>
      [PG: minor refactoring for improved connect/disconnect function names]
      Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
      584d24b3
    • Ying Xue's avatar
      tipc: consolidate connection-oriented message reception in one function · 7e6c131e
      Ying Xue authored
      Handling of connection-related message reception is currently scattered
      around at different places in the code. This makes it harder to verify
      that things are handled correctly in all possible scenarios.
      So we consolidate the existing processing of connection-oriented
      message reception in a single routine.  In the process, we convert the
      chain of if/else into a switch/case for improved readability.
      
      A cast on the socket_state in the switch is needed to avoid compile
      warnings on 32 bit, like "net/tipc/socket.c:1252:2: warning: case value
      ‘4294967295’ not in enumerated type".  This happens because existing
      tipc code pseudo extends the default linux socket state values with:
      
      	#define SS_LISTENING    -1      /* socket is listening */
      	#define SS_READY        -2      /* socket is connectionless */
      
      It may make sense to add these as _positive_ values to the existing
      socket state enum list someday, vs. these already existing defines.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarYing Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com>
      [PG: add cast to fix warning; remove returns from middle of switch]
      Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
      7e6c131e
    • Paul Gortmaker's avatar
      tipc: standardize across connect/disconnect function naming · bc879117
      Paul Gortmaker authored
      Currently we have tipc_disconnect and tipc_disconnect_port.  It is
      not clear from the names alone, what they do or how they differ.
      It turns out that tipc_disconnect just deals with the port locking
      and then calls tipc_disconnect_port which does all the work.
      
      If we rename as follows: tipc_disconnect_port --> __tipc_disconnect
      then we will be following typical linux convention, where:
      
         __tipc_disconnect: "raw" function that does all the work.
      
         tipc_disconnect: wrapper that deals with locking and then calls
      		    the real core __tipc_disconnect function
      
      With this, the difference is immediately evident, and locking
      violations are more apt to be spotted by chance while working on,
      or even just while reading the code.
      
      On the connect side of things, we currently only have the single
      "tipc_connect2port" function.  It does both the locking at enter/exit,
      and the core of the work.  Pending changes will make it desireable to
      have the connect be a two part locking wrapper + worker function,
      just like the disconnect is already.
      
      Here, we make the connect look just like the updated disconnect case,
      for the above reason, and for consistency.  In the process, we also
      get rid of the "2port" suffix that was on the original name, since
      it adds no descriptive value.
      
      On close examination, one might notice that the above connect
      changes implicitly move the call to tipc_link_get_max_pkt() to be
      within the scope of tipc_port_lock() protected region; when it was
      not previously.  We don't see any issues with this, and it is in
      keeping with __tipc_connect doing the work and tipc_connect just
      handling the locking.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
      bc879117
    • Jon Maloy's avatar
      tipc: change sk_receive_queue upper limit · e643df15
      Jon Maloy authored
      The sk_recv_queue upper limit for connectionless sockets has empirically
      turned out to be too low. When we double the current limit we get much
      fewer rejected messages and no noticable negative side-effects.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
      e643df15
    • Ying Xue's avatar
      tipc: eliminate aggregate sk_receive_queue limit · 9da3d475
      Ying Xue authored
      As a complement to the per-socket sk_recv_queue limit, TIPC keeps a
      global atomic counter for the sum of sk_recv_queue sizes across all
      tipc sockets. When incremented, the counter is compared to an upper
      threshold value, and if this is reached, the message is rejected
      with error code TIPC_OVERLOAD.
      
      This check was originally meant to protect the node against
      buffer exhaustion and general CPU overload. However, all experience
      indicates that the feature not only is redundant on Linux, but even
      harmful. Users run into the limit very often, causing disturbances
      for their applications, while removing it seems to have no negative
      effects at all. We have also seen that overall performance is
      boosted significantly when this bottleneck is removed.
      
      Furthermore, we don't see any other network protocols maintaining
      such a mechanism, something strengthening our conviction that this
      control can be eliminated.
      
      As a result, the atomic variable tipc_queue_size is now unused
      and so it can be deleted.  There is a getsockopt call that used
      to allow reading it; we retain that but just return zero for
      maximum compatibility.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarYing Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com>
      Cc: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
      [PG: phase out tipc_queue_size as pointed out by Neil Horman]
      Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
      9da3d475
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