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authorAntonio Quartulli <antonio@open-mesh.com>2016-01-16 16:40:15 +0800
committerAntonio Quartulli <a@unstable.cc>2016-02-29 16:05:32 +0800
commit95d392784dd0a51e4216e075f04a68c922745985 (patch)
tree4494e96e8be0cfbe82cb2ad7605a825a01c577ce /net/batman-adv/types.h
parent0b5ecc6811bd576ecc9813bbe069f2293cb1c6aa (diff)
batman-adv: keep track of when unicast packets are sent
To enable ELP to send probing packets over wireless links only if needed, batman-adv must keep track of the last time it sent a unicast packet towards every neighbour. For this purpose a 2 main changes are introduced: 1) a new member of the elp_neigh_node structure stores the last time a unicast packet was sent towards this neighbour; 2) a wrapper function for sending unicast packets is implemented. This function will simply update the member describe din point 1) and then forward the packet to the real sending routine. Point 2) implies that any code-path leading to a unicast sending now has to use the new wrapper. Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@open-mesh.com> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
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diff --git a/net/batman-adv/types.h b/net/batman-adv/types.h
index a6f0952d2840..c56bb8835e60 100644
--- a/net/batman-adv/types.h
+++ b/net/batman-adv/types.h
@@ -377,11 +377,13 @@ DECLARE_EWMA(throughput, 1024, 8)
* @throughput: ewma link throughput towards this neighbor
* @elp_interval: time interval between two ELP transmissions
* @elp_latest_seqno: latest and best known ELP sequence number
+ * @last_unicast_tx: when the last unicast packet has been sent to this neighbor
*/
struct batadv_hardif_neigh_node_bat_v {
struct ewma_throughput throughput;
u32 elp_interval;
u32 elp_latest_seqno;
+ unsigned long last_unicast_tx;
};
/**