batman-adv: Modified forwarding behaviour for multicast packets
With this patch a multicast packet is not always simply flooded anymore,
the behaviour for the following cases is changed to reduce
unnecessary overhead:
If all nodes within the horizon of a certain node have signalized
multicast listener announcement capability then an IPv6 multicast packet
with a destination of IPv6 link-local scope (excluding ff02::1) coming
from the upstream of this node...
* ...is dropped if there is no according multicast listener in the
translation table,
* ...is forwarded via unicast if there is a single node with interested
multicast listeners
* ...and otherwise still gets flooded.
Signed-off-by: Linus Lüssing <linus.luessing@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com>
diff --git a/net/batman-adv/sysfs.c b/net/batman-adv/sysfs.c
index e456bf6..1ebb0d9 100644
--- a/net/batman-adv/sysfs.c
+++ b/net/batman-adv/sysfs.c
@@ -539,6 +539,9 @@
batadv_post_gw_reselect);
static BATADV_ATTR(gw_bandwidth, S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR, batadv_show_gw_bwidth,
batadv_store_gw_bwidth);
+#ifdef CONFIG_BATMAN_ADV_MCAST
+BATADV_ATTR_SIF_BOOL(multicast_mode, S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR, NULL);
+#endif
#ifdef CONFIG_BATMAN_ADV_DEBUG
BATADV_ATTR_SIF_UINT(log_level, S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR, 0, BATADV_DBG_ALL, NULL);
#endif
@@ -558,6 +561,9 @@
#ifdef CONFIG_BATMAN_ADV_DAT
&batadv_attr_distributed_arp_table,
#endif
+#ifdef CONFIG_BATMAN_ADV_MCAST
+ &batadv_attr_multicast_mode,
+#endif
&batadv_attr_fragmentation,
&batadv_attr_routing_algo,
&batadv_attr_gw_mode,