netdev - Re: [net-next 1/1] tipc: apply bearer link tolerance on running links

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Date:   Wed, 14 Feb 2018 15:22:35 -0500 (EST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     jon.maloy@...csson.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        mohan.krishna.ghanta.krishnamurthy@...csson.com,
        tung.q.nguyen@...tech.com.au, hoang.h.le@...tech.com.au,
        canh.d.luu@...tech.com.au, ying.xue@...driver.com,
        tipc-discussion@...ts.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [net-next 1/1] tipc: apply bearer link tolerance on running
 links

From: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@...csson.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2018 13:34:39 +0100

> Currently, the default link tolerance set in struct tipc_bearer only
> has effect on links going up after that moment. I.e., a user has to
> reset all the node's links across that bearer to have the new value
> applied. This is too limiting and disturbing on a running cluster to
> be useful.
> 
> We now change this so that also already existing links are updated
> dynamically, without any need for a reset, when the bearer value is
> changed. We leverage the already existing per-link functionality
> for this to achieve the wanted effect.
> 
> Acked-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@...driver.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@...csson.com>

Applied, thanks Jon.