RE: [PATCH 2/4] mac80211/cfg: mesh: fix healing time when a mesh peer is disconnecting

[Machani, Yaniv]

On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 15:27:47, Bob Copeland wrote:
> linux- wireless@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; netdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Hahn, Maital
> Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] mac80211/cfg: mesh: fix healing time when a 
> mesh peer is disconnecting
> 
> On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 02:13:05PM +0300, Yaniv Machani wrote:
> > From: Maital Hahn <maitalm@xxxxxx>
> >
> > Once receiving a CLOSE action frame from the disconnecting peer, 
> > flush all entries in the path table which has this peer as the next hop.
> 
> Please address the user-visible behavior in your commit messages.
> Does it crash?  Does it send frames to an invalid peer?  Do frames get dropped?
> 

Hi Bob,
It was a crash, apparently already fixed by your patches some time ago.
I'll remove that part and resend the 2nd part (with some more 'why', and less typos..)

> > In addition, upon receiving a packet, if next hop is not found, 
> > trigger PERQ immidiatly, instead of just putting it in the queue.
> 
> "PREQ"
> 
> Please split this into a separate patch that we can review separately 
> (and also give the "why" in the commit log).
> 
> > @@ -1011,6 +1011,7 @@ static void sta_apply_mesh_params(struct
> ieee80211_local *local,
> >  			if (sta->mesh->plink_state == NL80211_PLINK_ESTAB)
> >  				changed =
> mesh_plink_dec_estab_count(sdata);
> >  			sta->mesh->plink_state = params->plink_state;
> > +			mesh_path_flush_by_nexthop(sta);
> 
> This isn't necessary, caller should already be doing
> mesh_path_flush_by_nexthop() in every case I could see.  Besides it 
> cannot be done under plink lock.
> 

I believe this was fixed in your patch "mac80211: mesh: flush paths outside of plink lock"
There is probably no need in that on the latest as well.

Thanks,
Yaniv