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2010-03-03Staging: batman-adv: atomic variable for vis-srv activationLinus Luessing
This fixes the bug discovered by Marek Lindner which did not allow turning on the vis-server before an interface has been added. With this patch we are using a global atomic variable for activating and deactiating the vis-server-mode, which can be used before inserting an interface. 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>
2010-03-03Staging: batman-adv: Remove compat.hSimon Wunderlich
Since we are now part of mainline, we don't need compat.h to allow building of the module with old versions of the kernel. 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: splitting /proc vis file into vis_server and vis_dataMarek Lindner
The /proc vis file was used to enable/disable the vis server and to output the vis data at the same time. This behaviour was confusing and lacked a proper method to display the current vis server status. This patch seperates the 2 functionalities: * use vis_server to enable/disable the vis server and to retrieve its status * use vis_data to retrieve the vis raw data (if the server is enabled) 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: Fixes rounding issues in vis.cLinus Lüssing
This patches fixes two rounding issues in vis.c for sending and purging vis packets. Before, the timers and timeouts always got rounded down to seconds, though we want a precision in milliseconds. This also fixes a kernel panic that occures when lowering the timer for sending vis packets (vis_interval) to less than 1000ms in main.c manually. Signed-off-by: Linus Lüssing <linus.luessing@web.de> Acked-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: initialize static hash iteratorsSimon Wunderlich
instead of dynamically registering hash iterators, calling functions are changed to register the iterator objects statically. The two advantages are: * no memory leaks when aborting from hash_iterate() * no calls to kmalloc/kfree, therefore a little faster/safer Tested with 9 QEMU instances, no obvious regression found. Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-03-03Staging: batman-adv: replace internal logging mechanism.Andrew Lunn
batman-adv used its own logging infrastructure. Replace this with standard kernel logging, printk(), with compile time and runtime options to enable/disable different debug levels. 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>