The mesh interface can optimize the flooding of multicast packets based on the content of the global translation tables. To disable this behavior and use the broadcast-like flooding of the packets, forceflood has to be enabled.
The BATADV_CMD_SET_MESH/BATADV_CMD_GET_MESH commands allow to set/get the configuration of this feature using the BATADV_ATTR_MULTICAST_FORCEFLOOD_ENABLED attribute. Setting the u8 to zero will disable this feature (allowing multicast optimizations) and setting it to something else is enabling this feature (forcing simple flooding).
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann sven@narfation.org --- include/uapi/linux/batman_adv.h | 9 +++++++++ net/batman-adv/netlink.c | 15 +++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 24 insertions(+)
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/batman_adv.h b/include/uapi/linux/batman_adv.h index 6d36e4b4..38caaaae 100644 --- a/include/uapi/linux/batman_adv.h +++ b/include/uapi/linux/batman_adv.h @@ -455,6 +455,15 @@ enum batadv_nl_attrs { */ BATADV_ATTR_LOG_LEVEL,
+ /** + * @BATADV_ATTR_MULTICAST_FORCEFLOOD_ENABLED: whether multicast + * optimizations should be replaced by simple broadcast-like flooding + * of multicast packets. If set to non-zero then all nodes in the mesh + * are going to use classic flooding for any multicast packet with no + * optimizations. + */ + BATADV_ATTR_MULTICAST_FORCEFLOOD_ENABLED, + /* add attributes above here, update the policy in netlink.c */
/** diff --git a/net/batman-adv/netlink.c b/net/batman-adv/netlink.c index 8c019d46..475bd15f 100644 --- a/net/batman-adv/netlink.c +++ b/net/batman-adv/netlink.c @@ -155,6 +155,7 @@ static const struct nla_policy batadv_netlink_policy[NUM_BATADV_ATTR] = { [BATADV_ATTR_GW_SEL_CLASS] = { .type = NLA_U32 }, [BATADV_ATTR_HOP_PENALTY] = { .type = NLA_U8 }, [BATADV_ATTR_LOG_LEVEL] = { .type = NLA_U32 }, + [BATADV_ATTR_MULTICAST_FORCEFLOOD_ENABLED] = { .type = NLA_U8 }, };
/** @@ -343,6 +344,12 @@ static int batadv_netlink_mesh_fill(struct sk_buff *msg, goto nla_put_failure; #endif /* CONFIG_BATMAN_ADV_DEBUG */
+#ifdef CONFIG_BATMAN_ADV_MCAST + if (nla_put_u8(msg, BATADV_ATTR_MULTICAST_FORCEFLOOD_ENABLED, + !atomic_read(&bat_priv->multicast_mode))) + goto nla_put_failure; +#endif /* CONFIG_BATMAN_ADV_MCAST */ + if (primary_if) batadv_hardif_put(primary_if);
@@ -564,6 +571,14 @@ static int batadv_netlink_set_mesh(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info) } #endif /* CONFIG_BATMAN_ADV_DEBUG */
+#ifdef CONFIG_BATMAN_ADV_MCAST + if (info->attrs[BATADV_ATTR_MULTICAST_FORCEFLOOD_ENABLED]) { + attr = info->attrs[BATADV_ATTR_MULTICAST_FORCEFLOOD_ENABLED]; + + atomic_set(&bat_priv->multicast_mode, !nla_get_u8(attr)); + } +#endif /* CONFIG_BATMAN_ADV_MCAST */ + batadv_netlink_notify_mesh(bat_priv);
return 0;