From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH] tipc: Increase frequency of load distribution over broadcast link Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 21:27:11 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20100316.212711.66066041.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20100315180223.GC24528@hmsreliant.think-freely.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, allan.stephens@windriver.com To: nhorman@tuxdriver.com Return-path: Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:36000 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752881Ab0CQE0t (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:26:49 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20100315180223.GC24528@hmsreliant.think-freely.org> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Neil Horman Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 14:02:24 -0400 > Forward port commit 29eb572941501c40ac6e62dbc5043bf9ee76ee56 > from git://tipc.cslab.ericsson.net/pub/git/people/allan/tipc.git > > Origional commit message: > Increase frequency of load distribution over broadcast link > > This patch enhances the behavior of TIPC's broadcast link so that it > alternates between redundant bearers (if available) after every > message sent, rather than after every 10 messages. This change helps > to speed up delivery of retransmitted messages by ensuring that > they are not sent repeatedly over a bearer that is no longer working, > but not yet recognized as failed. > > Tested by myself in the latest net-2.6 tree using the tipc sanity test suite > > Origionally-signed-off-by: Allan Stephens > Signed-off-by: Neil Horman Applied.