tipc: split link outqueue
authorJon Paul Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com>
Fri, 13 Mar 2015 20:08:10 +0000 (16:08 -0400)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Sat, 14 Mar 2015 18:38:32 +0000 (14:38 -0400)
commit05dcc5aa4dcced4f59f925625cea669e82b75519
tree0a516e1012ee7e9b7eee037d8e31278a425e7d68
parent2cdf3918e47e98c8f34f7a64455ea9fd433756e7
tipc: split link outqueue

struct tipc_link contains one single queue for outgoing packets,
where both transmitted and waiting packets are queued.

This infrastructure is hard to maintain, because we need
to keep a number of fields to keep track of which packets are
sent or unsent, and the number of packets in each category.

A lot of code becomes simpler if we split this queue into a transmission
queue, where sent/unacknowledged packets are kept, and a backlog queue,
where we keep the not yet sent packets.

In this commit we do this separation.

Reviewed-by: Erik Hugne <erik.hugne@ericsson.com>
Reviewed-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
net/tipc/bcast.c
net/tipc/link.c
net/tipc/link.h
net/tipc/msg.c
net/tipc/msg.h
net/tipc/node.c
net/tipc/node.h