- **status**: accepted --> unassigned
- **assigned_to**: Hans Feldt --> nobody
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** [tickets:#654] MDS improvements**
**Status:** unassigned
**Milestone:** 4.6.FC
**Created:** Wed Dec 11, 2013 10:26 AM UTC by Hans Feldt
**Last Updated:** Wed Aug 13, 2014 12:17 PM UTC
**Owner:** nobody
Identified short comings:
- MDS does not use the segmentation/reassembly support in the underlying
transport protocol. For example TIPC accepts messages upto 66000 bytes
- The built in segmentation/reassembly is totally insecure, lost fragments are
not retransmitted and the complete message is dropped (without users knowledge)
- In TIPC mode DEST_DROPPABLE is not used at all. This means that messages can
be silently dropped at a receiving node at congestion.
Suggested improvements:
1) Introduce a variable fragmentation limit when sending messages. This needs
to be based on information received at service discovery. If the sender is
"old" use the classic 1400 byte limit. If the sender is new, first use TIPCs
segmentation/reassembly and then the MDS one.
2) Configure DEST_DROPPABLE=False and use returned messages for diagnostics (as
a first step). That means only for logging purposes and not for retransmission
(which is not possible since messages are not stored in a send queue)
I have working prototype patches for both. Will send out them shortly.
Using TIPC segmentation/reassembly gives a number of advantages:
- reduced risk of link congestion on sending node since TIPC counts messages
not bytes
- secure transport of large messages, TIPC handles retransmission
- possibly improved characteristics due to implicit use of Ethernet jumbo frames
Long term we should consider if MDS segmentation/reassembly can be removed.
Sending large messages should really be using stream sockets.
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