From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/9] tipc: resolve message disordering problem Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2015 16:00:35 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <20150205.160035.485906710491477883.davem@davemloft.net> References: <1423143404-23322-1-git-send-email-jon.maloy@ericsson.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, paul.gortmaker@windriver.com, erik.hugne@ericsson.com, ying.xue@windriver.com, maloy@donjonn.com, tipc-discussion@lists.sourceforge.net To: jon.maloy@ericsson.com Return-path: Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([149.20.54.216]:48996 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753162AbbBFAAg (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Feb 2015 19:00:36 -0500 In-Reply-To: <1423143404-23322-1-git-send-email-jon.maloy@ericsson.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Jon Maloy Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2015 08:36:35 -0500 > When TIPC receives messages from multi-threaded device drivers it may > occasionally deliver messages to their destination sockets in the wrong > order. This happens despite correct resequencing at the link layer, > because the upcall path from link to socket is not protected by any > locks. > > These commits solve this problem by introducing an 'input' message > queue in each link, through which messages must be delivered to the > upper layers. Looks good, series applied, thanks Jon.