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| author | Chun-Yeow Yeoh <yeohchunyeow@gmail.com> | 2012-03-23 14:48:51 +0400 |
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| committer | John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> | 2012-04-10 00:37:10 +0400 |
| commit | d2a079fd48c05235b86016a33a79cb86a86e15a8 (patch) | |
| tree | 060be7f455d64165eb5f5ca7187aac73bf5d79e2 /net/mac80211/mesh.h | |
| parent | 30899cc6ab4d4b63d43f6d652d1ecf9107eadb8d (diff) | |
| download | linux-d2a079fd48c05235b86016a33a79cb86a86e15a8.tar.xz | |
mac80211: fix the RANN propagation issues
This patch is intended to solve the follwing issues in RANN propagation:
[1] The interval in propagated RANN should be based on the interval of received RANN.
[2] The aggregated path metric for propagated RANN is as received plus own link metric
towards the transmitting mesh STA (not root mesh STA).
[3] The comparison of path metric for RANN with same sequence number should be done
before deciding whether to propagate or not.
Signed-off-by: Chun-Yeow Yeoh <yeohchunyeow@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/mac80211/mesh.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/mac80211/mesh.h | 2 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/mac80211/mesh.h b/net/mac80211/mesh.h index 2bd5d8b864f6..3e52439ed112 100644 --- a/net/mac80211/mesh.h +++ b/net/mac80211/mesh.h @@ -86,6 +86,7 @@ enum mesh_deferred_task_flags { * mpath itself. No need to take this lock when adding or removing * an mpath to a hash bucket on a path table. * @rann_snd_addr: the RANN sender address + * @rann_metric: the aggregated path metric towards the root node * @is_root: the destination station of this path is a root node * @is_gate: the destination station of this path is a mesh gate * @@ -112,6 +113,7 @@ struct mesh_path { enum mesh_path_flags flags; spinlock_t state_lock; u8 rann_snd_addr[ETH_ALEN]; + u32 rann_metric; bool is_root; bool is_gate; }; |