netdev - Re: [iproute2-next v2 1/3] tipc: add link broadcast set method and ratio

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Message-ID: <2cfdeb3b-e0d2-d1ab-8414-a33e219c85de@gmail.com>
Date:   Tue, 26 Mar 2019 17:14:09 -0600
From:   David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>
To:     Hoang Le <hoang.h.le@...tech.com.au>, jon.maloy@...csson.com,
        maloy@...jonn.com, ying.xue@...driver.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        tipc-discussion@...ts.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [iproute2-next v2 1/3] tipc: add link broadcast set method and
 ratio

On 3/22/19 2:47 AM, Hoang Le wrote:
> The command added here makes it possible to forcibly configure the
> broadcast link to use either broadcast or replicast, in addition to
> the already existing auto selection algorithm.
> 
> A sample usage is shown below:
> $tipc link set broadcast BROADCAST
> $tipc link set broadcast AUTOSELECT ratio 25
> 
> $tipc link set broadcast -h
> Usage: tipc link set broadcast PROPERTY
> 
> PROPERTIES
>  BROADCAST         - Forces all multicast traffic to be
>                      transmitted via broadcast only,
>                      irrespective of cluster size and number
>                      of destinations
> 
>  REPLICAST         - Forces all multicast traffic to be
>                      transmitted via replicast only,
>                      irrespective of cluster size and number
>                      of destinations
> 
>  AUTOSELECT        - Auto switching to broadcast or replicast
>                      depending on cluster size and destination
>                      node number
> 
>  ratio SIZE        - Set the AUTOSELECT criteria, percentage of
>                      destination nodes vs cluster size
> 
> Acked-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@...csson.com>
> Signed-off-by: Hoang Le <hoang.h.le@...tech.com.au>
> ---
>  include/uapi/linux/tipc_netlink.h |  2 +
>  tipc/link.c                       | 96 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>  2 files changed, 97 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 

applied all 3 to iproute2-next. Thanks