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Commit 86e39e04 authored by Paolo Abeni's avatar Paolo Abeni Committed by David S. Miller
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mptcp: keep track of local endpoint still available for each msk



Include into the path manager status a bitmap tracking the list
of local endpoints still available - not yet used - for the
relevant mptcp socket.

Keep such map updated at endpoint creation/deletion time, so
that we can easily skip already used endpoint at local address
selection time.

The endpoint used by the initial subflow is lazyly accounted at
subflow creation time: the usage bitmap is be up2date before
endpoint selection and we avoid such unneeded task in some relevant
scenarios - e.g. busy servers accepting incoming subflows but
not creating any additional ones nor annuncing additional addresses.

Overall this allows for fair local endpoints usage in case of
subflow failure.

As a side effect, this patch also enforces that each endpoint
is used at most once for each mptcp connection.

Signed-off-by: default avatarPaolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMat Martineau <mathew.j.martineau@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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