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authorRichard Alpe <richard.alpe@ericsson.com>2016-08-26 10:52:53 +0200
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2016-08-26 21:38:41 -0700
commitef20cd4dd1633987bcf46ac34ace2c8af212361f (patch)
tree016eff3257434db4f8ec7f8270d1dc981836c9a8 /net/tipc/netlink.c
parent1ca73e3fa12531bbbc854329cd02a887f986a02a (diff)
downloadlinux-ef20cd4dd1633987bcf46ac34ace2c8af212361f.tar.bz2
tipc: introduce UDP replicast
This patch introduces UDP replicast. A concept where we emulate multicast by sending multiple unicast messages to configured peers. The purpose of replicast is mainly to be able to use TIPC in cloud environments where IP multicast is disabled. Using replicas to unicast multicast messages is costly as we have to copy each skb and send the copies individually. Signed-off-by: Richard Alpe <richard.alpe@ericsson.com> Reviewed-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/tipc/netlink.c')
-rw-r--r--net/tipc/netlink.c5
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/tipc/netlink.c b/net/tipc/netlink.c
index 2718de667828..3122f21ca979 100644
--- a/net/tipc/netlink.c
+++ b/net/tipc/netlink.c
@@ -161,6 +161,11 @@ static const struct genl_ops tipc_genl_v2_ops[] = {
.policy = tipc_nl_policy,
},
{
+ .cmd = TIPC_NL_BEARER_ADD,
+ .doit = tipc_nl_bearer_add,
+ .policy = tipc_nl_policy,
+ },
+ {
.cmd = TIPC_NL_BEARER_SET,
.doit = tipc_nl_bearer_set,
.policy = tipc_nl_policy,