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Commit a91d55d1 authored by Tuong Lien's avatar Tuong Lien Committed by David S. Miller
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tipc: enable broadcast retrans via unicast



In some environment, broadcast traffic is suppressed at high rate (i.e.
a kind of bandwidth limit setting). When it is applied, TIPC broadcast
can still run successfully. However, when it comes to a high load, some
packets will be dropped first and TIPC tries to retransmit them but the
packet retransmission is intentionally broadcast too, so making things
worse and not helpful at all.

This commit enables the broadcast retransmission via unicast which only
retransmits packets to the specific peer that has really reported a gap
i.e. not broadcasting to all nodes in the cluster, so will prevent from
being suppressed, and also reduce some overheads on the other peers due
to duplicates, finally improve the overall TIPC broadcast performance.

Note: the functionality can be turned on/off via the sysctl file:

echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/tipc/bc_retruni
echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/tipc/bc_retruni

Default is '0', i.e. the broadcast retransmission still works as usual.

Acked-by: default avatarYing Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com>
Acked-by: default avatarJon Maloy <jmaloy@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarTuong Lien <tuong.t.lien@dektech.com.au>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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