netdev - Re: [net-next 0/4] tipc: emulate multicast through replication

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Message-Id: <20170120.121034.1107664043634334940.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Fri, 20 Jan 2017 12:10:34 -0500 (EST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     jon.maloy@...csson.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, parthasarathy.bhuvaragan@...csson.com,
        ying.xue@...driver.com, maloy@...jonn.com,
        tipc-discussion@...ts.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [net-next 0/4] tipc: emulate multicast through replication

From: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@...csson.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2017 13:50:49 -0500

> TIPC multicast messages are currently distributed via L2 broadcast
> or IP multicast to all nodes in the cluster, irrespective of the
> number of real destinations of the message.
> 
> In this series we introduce an option to transport messages via
> replication ("replicast") across a selected number of unicast links,
> instead of relying on the underlying media. This option is used when
> true broadcast/multicast is not supported by the media, or when the
> number of true destinations is much smaller than the cluster size.

Series applied, thanks Jon.