Hi, Bob

net_traversal_jiffies as claimed in [1] is used to improve patch
stability in short term. This patch is more or less like eliminating
the purpose of net_traversal_jiffies, right?

Also, as mentioned in [1], should we also consider the subsequent
PREQs with same metric instead of just only better metric in our
current implementation?

Regards,
Chun-Yeow

[1] Rosario G. Garroppo, et al. , "A joint experimental and simulation
study of the IEEE 802.11s HWMP protocol and airtime link metric"


On Sun, Feb 9, 2014 at 7:34 PM, Bob Copeland <[email protected]> wrote:
> When a path target responds to a path request, its response
> always contains the most up-to-date information; accordingly,
> it should use the latest target_sn, regardless of
> net_traversal_jiffies().  Otherwise, only the first path
> response is considered when constructing a path, as it will
> have the highest target_sn of all replies during that period.
>
> Signed-off-by: Bob Copeland <[email protected]>
> ---
>  net/mac80211/mesh_hwmp.c | 3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/net/mac80211/mesh_hwmp.c b/net/mac80211/mesh_hwmp.c
> index 03ff5ea..94758b9 100644
> --- a/net/mac80211/mesh_hwmp.c
> +++ b/net/mac80211/mesh_hwmp.c
> @@ -544,9 +544,10 @@ static void hwmp_preq_frame_process(struct 
> ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata,
>                 if (time_after(jiffies, ifmsh->last_sn_update +
>                                         net_traversal_jiffies(sdata)) ||
>                     time_before(jiffies, ifmsh->last_sn_update)) {
> -                       target_sn = ++ifmsh->sn;
> +                       ++ifmsh->sn;
>                         ifmsh->last_sn_update = jiffies;
>                 }
> +               target_sn = ifmsh->sn;
>         } else if (is_broadcast_ether_addr(target_addr) &&
>                    (target_flags & IEEE80211_PREQ_TO_FLAG)) {
>                 rcu_read_lock();
> --
> 1.8.5.2
>
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