When sending broadcast message on high load system, there are a lot of
unnecessary packets restranmission. That issue was caused by missing in
initial criteria for retransmission.

To prevent this happen, just initialize this criteria for retransmission
in next 10 milliseconds.

Fixes: 31c4f4cc32f7 tipc: improve broadcast retransmission algorithm
Acked-by: Jon Maloy <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Hoang Le <[email protected]>
---
 net/tipc/link.c | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/net/tipc/link.c b/net/tipc/link.c
index 9e265eb89726..6ffa43819727 100644
--- a/net/tipc/link.c
+++ b/net/tipc/link.c
@@ -945,6 +945,10 @@ int tipc_link_xmit(struct tipc_link *l, struct 
sk_buff_head *list,
                        }
                        __skb_dequeue(list);
                        __skb_queue_tail(transmq, skb);
+                       /* next retransmit attempt */
+                       if (link_is_bc_sndlink(l))
+                               TIPC_SKB_CB(skb)->nxt_retr =
+                                       jiffies + TIPC_BC_RETR_LIM;
                        __skb_queue_tail(xmitq, _skb);
                        TIPC_SKB_CB(skb)->ackers = l->ackers;
                        l->rcv_unacked = 0;
@@ -992,6 +996,9 @@ static void tipc_link_advance_backlog(struct tipc_link *l,
                hdr = buf_msg(skb);
                l->backlog[msg_importance(hdr)].len--;
                __skb_queue_tail(&l->transmq, skb);
+               /* next retransmit attempt */
+               if (link_is_bc_sndlink(l))
+                       TIPC_SKB_CB(skb)->nxt_retr = jiffies + TIPC_BC_RETR_LIM;
                __skb_queue_tail(xmitq, _skb);
                TIPC_SKB_CB(skb)->ackers = l->ackers;
                msg_set_seqno(hdr, seqno);
-- 
2.17.1



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