mac80211: mesh gate implementation
In this implementation, a mesh gate is a root node with a certain bit
set in its RANN flags. The mpath to this root node is marked as a path
to a gate, and added to our list of known gates for this if_mesh. Once a
path discovery process fails, we forward the unresolved frames to a
known gate. Thanks to Luis Rodriguez for refactoring and bug fix help.
Signed-off-by: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
diff --git a/net/mac80211/mesh.h b/net/mac80211/mesh.h
index 3c7d0f8..9d9116e 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/mesh.h
+++ b/net/mac80211/mesh.h
@@ -81,6 +81,7 @@
* @discovery_retries: number of discovery retries
* @flags: mesh path flags, as specified on &enum mesh_path_flags
* @state_lock: mesh path state lock
+ * @is_gate: the destination station of this path is a mesh gate
*
*
* The combination of dst and sdata is unique in the mesh path table. Since the
@@ -104,6 +105,7 @@
u8 discovery_retries;
enum mesh_path_flags flags;
spinlock_t state_lock;
+ bool is_gate;
};
/**
@@ -120,6 +122,9 @@
* buckets
* @mean_chain_len: maximum average length for the hash buckets' list, if it is
* reached, the table will grow
+ * @known_gates: list of known mesh gates and their mpaths by the station. The
+ * gate's mpath may or may not be resolved and active.
+ *
* rcu_head: RCU head to free the table
*/
struct mesh_table {
@@ -133,6 +138,8 @@
int (*copy_node) (struct hlist_node *p, struct mesh_table *newtbl);
int size_order;
int mean_chain_len;
+ struct hlist_head *known_gates;
+ spinlock_t gates_lock;
struct rcu_head rcu_head;
};
@@ -236,6 +243,10 @@
void mesh_rx_path_sel_frame(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata,
struct ieee80211_mgmt *mgmt, size_t len);
int mesh_path_add(u8 *dst, struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata);
+
+int mesh_path_add_gate(struct mesh_path *mpath);
+int mesh_path_send_to_gates(struct mesh_path *mpath);
+int mesh_gate_num(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata);
/* Mesh plinks */
void mesh_neighbour_update(u8 *hw_addr, u32 rates,
struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata,