Hi Ying,
(Mail forwarded. For some reason some of your mails only show up in my private 
mailbox, and not in Ericsson’s)

It basically goes like this:

tipc_rcv()
{
         ….
        node_write_lock()
        tipc_node_up(&xmitq1)
              build_bcast_sync_msg(&xmitq1) //pkt #1
        node_write_unlock()
               named_node_up()
                       named_distribute(&xmitq2)
                               tipc_node_xmit(&xmitq2)
                                     bearer_xmit(&xmitq2)  //pkt #2
                       named_distribute(&xmitq2)
                               tipc_node_xmit(&xmitq2)
                                     bearer_xmit(&xmitq2)    //pkt #3
          bearer_xmit(&xmitq1)                 //pkt #1
}

We could of course have fixed this by passing the same queue along everywhere, 
but it is too intrusive for such a small problem.

///jon


From: Jon Maloy [mailto:ma...@donjonn.com]
Sent: Tuesday, 12 April, 2016 15:32
To: Jon Maloy
Subject: Tr : [PATCH net-next v2 4/5] tipc: ensure that first packets on link 
are sent in order



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À : Jon Maloy <jon.ma...@ericsson.com<mailto:jon.ma...@ericsson.com>>; 
"tipc-discussion@lists.sourceforge.net<mailto:tipc-discussion@lists.sourceforge.net>"
 
<tipc-discussion@lists.sourceforge.net<mailto:tipc-discussion@lists.sourceforge.net>>;
 
"parthasarathy.bhuvara...@ericsson.com<mailto:parthasarathy.bhuvara...@ericsson.com>"
 
<parthasarathy.bhuvara...@ericsson.com<mailto:parthasarathy.bhuvara...@ericsson.com>>;
 "richard.a...@ericsson.com<mailto:richard.a...@ericsson.com>" 
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Cc : "ma...@donjonn.com<mailto:ma...@donjonn.com>" 
<ma...@donjonn.com<mailto:ma...@donjonn.com>>
Envoyé le : mardi 12 avril 2016 6h47
Objet : RE: [PATCH net-next v2 4/5] tipc: ensure that first packets on link are 
sent in order

Hi Jon,

Can you please explain a bit more what type of packets are disordered in link 
establishment stage?

Thanks,
Ying

-----Original Message-----
From: Jon Maloy [mailto:jon.ma...@ericsson.com<mailto:jon.ma...@ericsson.com>]
Sent: 2016年4月11日 21:00
To: 
tipc-discussion@lists.sourceforge.net<mailto:tipc-discussion@lists.sourceforge.net>;
 
parthasarathy.bhuvara...@ericsson.com<mailto:parthasarathy.bhuvara...@ericsson.com>;
 Xue, Ying; richard.a...@ericsson.com<mailto:richard.a...@ericsson.com>; 
jon.ma...@ericsson.com<mailto:jon.ma...@ericsson.com>
Cc: ma...@donjonn.com<mailto:ma...@donjonn.com>
Subject: [PATCH net-next v2 4/5] tipc: ensure that first packets on link are 
sent in order

In some link establishment scenarios we see that packet #2 may be sent out 
before packet #1, forcing the receiver to demand retransmission of the missing 
packet. This is harmless, but may cause confusion among people tracing the 
packet flow.

Since this is extremely easy to fix, we do so by adding en extra send call to 
the bearer immediately after the link has come up.

Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy <jon.ma...@ericsson.com<mailto:jon.ma...@ericsson.com>>
---
net/tipc/node.c | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/net/tipc/node.c b/net/tipc/node.c index ace178f..b00e12c 100644
--- a/net/tipc/node.c
+++ b/net/tipc/node.c
@@ -581,8 +581,12 @@ static void __tipc_node_link_up(struct tipc_node *n, int 
bearer_id,  static void tipc_node_link_up(struct tipc_node *n, int bearer_id,
                  struct sk_buff_head *xmitq)
{
+    struct tipc_media_addr *maddr;
+
    tipc_node_write_lock(n);
    __tipc_node_link_up(n, bearer_id, xmitq);
+    maddr = &n->links[bearer_id].maddr;
+    tipc_bearer_xmit(n->net, bearer_id, xmitq, maddr);
    tipc_node_write_unlock(n);
}

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1.9.1

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