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Commit 4a992bbd authored by Jeremy Kerr's avatar Jeremy Kerr Committed by David S. Miller
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mctp: Implement message fragmentation & reassembly



This change implements MCTP fragmentation (based on route & device MTU),
and corresponding reassembly.

The MCTP specification only allows for fragmentation on the originating
message endpoint, and reassembly on the destination endpoint -
intermediate nodes do not need to reassemble/refragment.  Consequently,
we only fragment in the local transmit path, and reassemble
locally-bound packets. Messages are required to be in-order, so we
simply cancel reassembly on out-of-order or missing packets.

In the fragmentation path, we just break up the message into MTU-sized
fragments; the skb structure is a simple copy for now, which we can later
improve with a shared data implementation.

For reassembly, we keep track of incoming message fragments using the
existing tag infrastructure, allocating a key on the (src,dest,tag)
tuple, and reassembles matching fragments into a skb->frag_list.

Signed-off-by: default avatarJeremy Kerr <jk@codeconstruct.com.au>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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