This patch introduces UDP replicast. A concept where we emulate
multicast by sending multiple unicast messages to configured peers.
The purpose of replicast is mainly to be able to use TIPC in cloud
environments where IP multicast is disabled. Using replicas to unicast
multicast messages is costly
On 08/23/2016 10:41 AM, Richard Alpe wrote:
> This patch introduces UDP replicast. A concept where we emulate
> multicast by sending multiple unicast messages to configured peers.
>
> The purpose of replicast is mainly to be able to use TIPC in cloud
> environments where IP multicast is disabled.
On 2016-08-24 12:08, Jon Maloy wrote:
>
>
> On 08/23/2016 10:41 AM, Richard Alpe wrote:
>> This patch introduces UDP replicast. A concept where we emulate
>> multicast by sending multiple unicast messages to configured peers.
>>
>> The purpose of replicast is mainly to be able to use TIPC in clou
On 08/24/2016 06:57 AM, Richard Alpe wrote:
> On 2016-08-24 12:08, Jon Maloy wrote:
>>
>> On 08/23/2016 10:41 AM, Richard Alpe wrote:
>>> This patch introduces UDP replicast. A concept where we emulate
>>> multicast by sending multiple unicast messages to configured peers.
>>>
>>> The purpose of
> >>> @@ -209,23 +218,79 @@ static int tipc_udp_send_msg(struct net *net,
struct sk_buff *skb,
> >>> if (skb_headroom(skb) < UDP_MIN_HEADROOM) {
> >>> err = pskb_expand_head(skb, UDP_MIN_HEADROOM, 0,
GFP_ATOMIC);
> >>> if (err)
> >>> - goto tx_error;
>
