linux/net/tipc
Jon Maloy 75da2163db tipc: introduce communication groups
As a preparation for introducing flow control for multicast and datagram
messaging we need a more strictly defined framework than we have now. A
socket must be able keep track of exactly how many and which other
sockets it is allowed to communicate with at any moment, and keep the
necessary state for those.

We therefore introduce a new concept we have named Communication Group.
Sockets can join a group via a new setsockopt() call TIPC_GROUP_JOIN.
The call takes four parameters: 'type' serves as group identifier,
'instance' serves as an logical member identifier, and 'scope' indicates
the visibility of the group (node/cluster/zone). Finally, 'flags' makes
it possible to set certain properties for the member. For now, there is
only one flag, indicating if the creator of the socket wants to receive
a copy of broadcast or multicast messages it is sending via the socket,
and if wants to be eligible as destination for its own anycasts.

A group is closed, i.e., sockets which have not joined a group will
not be able to send messages to or receive messages from members of
the group, and vice versa.

Any member of a group can send multicast ('group broadcast') messages
to all group members, optionally including itself, using the primitive
send(). The messages are received via the recvmsg() primitive. A socket
can only be member of one group at a time.

Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com>
Acked-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2017-10-13 08:46:00 -07:00
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addr.c tipc: simplify include dependencies 2015-05-14 12:24:45 -04:00
addr.h tipc: introduce constants for tipc address validation 2016-07-26 14:26:42 -07:00
bcast.c tipc: improve destination linked list 2017-10-13 08:46:00 -07:00
bcast.h tipc: make replicast a user selectable option 2017-01-20 12:10:17 -05:00
bearer.c tipc: remove unnecessary call to dev_net() 2017-09-06 21:25:52 -07:00
bearer.h Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2017-09-01 17:42:05 -07:00
core.c netns: make struct pernet_operations::id unsigned int 2016-11-18 10:59:15 -05:00
core.h tipc: add ability to order and receive topology events in driver 2017-10-13 08:46:00 -07:00
discover.c tipc: allocate user memory with GFP_KERNEL flag 2017-01-16 13:31:53 -05:00
discover.h tipc: eliminate buffer leak in bearer layer 2016-04-07 17:00:13 -04:00
eth_media.c tipc: make media address offset a common define 2015-02-27 18:18:48 -05:00
group.c tipc: introduce communication groups 2017-10-13 08:46:00 -07:00
group.h tipc: introduce communication groups 2017-10-13 08:46:00 -07:00
ib_media.c tipc: rename media/msg related definitions 2015-02-27 18:18:48 -05:00
Kconfig tipc: add ip/udp media type 2015-03-05 22:08:42 -05:00
link.c tipc: introduce communication groups 2017-10-13 08:46:00 -07:00
link.h tipc: transfer broadcast nacks in link state messages 2016-09-02 17:10:24 -07:00
Makefile tipc: introduce communication groups 2017-10-13 08:46:00 -07:00
monitor.c tipc: improve sanity check for received domain records 2016-11-25 20:06:18 -05:00
monitor.h tipc: dump monitor attributes 2016-07-26 14:26:42 -07:00
msg.c tipc: refactor function filter_rcv() 2017-10-13 08:46:00 -07:00
msg.h tipc: introduce communication groups 2017-10-13 08:46:00 -07:00
name_distr.c tipc: allocate user memory with GFP_KERNEL flag 2017-01-16 13:31:53 -05:00
name_distr.h tipc: reduce code dependency between binding table and node layer 2015-11-20 14:06:10 -05:00
name_table.c tipc: introduce communication groups 2017-10-13 08:46:00 -07:00
name_table.h tipc: introduce communication groups 2017-10-13 08:46:00 -07:00
net.c netlink: pass extended ACK struct where available 2017-04-13 13:58:22 -04:00
net.h tipc: add peer removal functionality 2016-08-18 23:36:07 -07:00
netlink_compat.c net: tipc: constify genl_ops 2017-08-23 22:31:38 -07:00
netlink.c netlink: pass extended ACK struct to parsing functions 2017-04-13 13:58:22 -04:00
netlink.h tipc: make cluster size threshold for monitoring configurable 2016-07-26 14:26:42 -07:00
node.c tipc: add new function for sending multiple small messages 2017-10-13 08:46:00 -07:00
node.h tipc: introduce communication groups 2017-10-13 08:46:00 -07:00
server.c tipc: add ability to order and receive topology events in driver 2017-10-13 08:46:00 -07:00
server.h tipc: add ability to order and receive topology events in driver 2017-10-13 08:46:00 -07:00
socket.c tipc: introduce communication groups 2017-10-13 08:46:00 -07:00
socket.h tipc: redesign connection-level flow control 2016-05-03 15:51:16 -04:00
subscr.c tipc: fix a race condition of releasing subscriber object 2017-08-22 14:25:02 -07:00
subscr.h tipc: adjust the policy of holding subscription kref 2017-03-28 18:03:33 -07:00
sysctl.c tipc: add name distributor resiliency queue 2014-09-01 17:51:48 -07:00
udp_media.c netlink: pass extended ACK struct to parsing functions 2017-04-13 13:58:22 -04:00
udp_media.h tipc: add UDP remoteip dump to netlink API 2016-08-26 21:38:41 -07:00