netdev - Re: [net-next 1/1] tipc: Auto removal of peer down node instance

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Date:   Sat, 30 Jun 2018 21:05:53 +0900 (KST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     mohan.krishna.ghanta.krishnamurthy@...csson.com
Cc:     tipc-discussion@...ts.sourceforge.net, jon.maloy@...csson.com,
        maloy@...jonn.com, ying.xue@...driver.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [net-next 1/1] tipc: Auto removal of peer down node instance

From: GhantaKrishnamurthy MohanKrishna <mohan.krishna.ghanta.krishnamurthy@...csson.com>
Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2018 13:23:41 +0200

> A peer node is considered down if there are no
> active links (or) lost contact to the node. In current implementation,
> a peer node instance is deleted either if
> 
> a) TIPC module is removed (or)
> b) Application can use a netlink/iproute2 interface to delete a
> specific down node.
> 
> Thus, a down node instance lives in the system forever, unless the
> application explicitly removes it.
> 
> We fix this by deleting the nodes which are down for
> a specified amount of time (5 minutes).
> Existing node supervision timer is used to achieve this.
> 
> Acked-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@...driver.com>
> Acked-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@...csson.com>
> Signed-off-by: GhantaKrishnamurthy MohanKrishna <mohan.krishna.ghanta.krishnamurthy@...csson.com>

Applied.