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2010-03-03Staging: batman-adv: remove obsolete variablesMarek Lindner
This patch removes a variable that became obsolete since the skb handling replaced the packet handling thread. Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-03-03Staging: batman-adv: receive packets directly using skbsSimon Wunderlich
This patch removes the (ugly and racy) packet receiving thread and the kernel socket usage. Instead, packets are received directly by registering the ethernet type and handling skbs instead of self-allocated buffers. Some consequences and comments: * we don't copy the payload data when forwarding/sending/receiving data anymore. This should boost performance. * packets from/to different interfaces can be (theoretically) processed simultaneously. Only the big originator hash lock might be in the way. * no more polling or sleeping/wakeup/scheduling issues when receiving packets * this might introduce new race conditions. * aggregation and vis code still use packet buffers and are not (yet) converted. * all spinlocks were converted to irqsave/restore versions to solve some lifelock issues when preempted. This might be overkill, some of these locks might be reverted later. * skb copies are only done if neccesary to avoid overhead performance differences: * we made some "benchmarks" with intel laptops. * bandwidth on Gigabit Ethernet increased from ~500 MBit/s to ~920 MBit/s * ping latency decresed from ~2ms to ~0.2 ms I did some tests on my 9 node qemu environment and could confirm that usual sending/receiving, forwarding, vis, batctl ping etc works. Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de> Acked-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven.eckelmann@gmx.de> Acked-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de> Acked-by: Linus Lüssing <linus.luessing@web.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-03-03Staging: batman-adv: Split originator handling parts out of routing.cAndrew Lunn
Bug found and fixed in origional version by Linus Luessing. Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Luessing <linus.luessing@web.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-12-11staging: batman-adv meshing protocolAndrew Lunn
B.A.T.M.A.N. (better approach to mobile ad-hoc networking) is a routing protocol for multi-hop ad-hoc mesh networks. The networks may be wired or wireless. See http://www.open-mesh.org/ for more information and user space tools. This is the first submission for inclusion in staging. Signed-off-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>