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The neighbor monitor employs a threshold, default set to 32 peer nodes, where it activates the "Overlapping Neighbor Monitoring" algorithm. Below that threshold, monitoring is full-mesh, and no "domain records" are passed between the nodes. Because of this, a node never received a peer's ack that it has received the most recent update of the own domain. Hence, the field 'acked_gen' in struct tipc_monitor_state remains permamently at zero, whereas the own domain generation is incremented for each added or removed peer. This has the effect that the function tipc_mon_get_state() always sets the field 'probing' in struct tipc_monitor_state true, again leading the tipc_link_timeout() of the link in question to always send out a probe, even when link->silent_intv_count is zero. This is functionally harmless, but leads to some unncessary probing, which can easily be eliminated by setting the 'probing' field of the said struct correctly in such cases. At the same time, we explictly invalidate the sent domain records when the algorithm is not activated. This will eliminate any risk that an invalid domain record might be inadverently accepted by the peer. Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Linux kernel ============ This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation. See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file. Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.