On 04/25/2014 02:26 PM, Karl Heiss wrote:
> Don't transition to the PF state on every strike after 'Path.Max.Retrans'.
> Per draft-ietf-tsvwg-sctp-failover-03 Section 5.1.6:
>
> Additional (PMR - PFMR) consecutive timeouts on a PF destination
> confirm the path failure, upon which the destination transitions to the
> Inactive state. As described in [RFC4960], the sender (i) SHOULD notify
> ULP about this state transition, and (ii) transmit heartbeats to the
> Inactive destination at a lower frequency as described in Section 8.3 of
> [RFC4960].
>
> This also prevents sending SCTP_ADDR_UNREACHABLE to the user as the state
> bounces between SCTP_INACTIVE and SCTP_PF for each subsequent strike.
>
> Signed-off-by: Karl Heiss <kheiss@xxxxxxxxx>
Hi Karl
Looks good. Thanks.
Acked-by: Vlad Yasevich <vyasevich@xxxxxxxxx>
-vlad
> ---
> Changes in v2:
> - Flesh out commit message
>
> Changes in v3:
> - Compare transport state instead of pathmaxrxt
>
> Changes in v4:
> - Simplify transport state comparison
>
> net/sctp/sm_sideeffect.c | 7 +++----
> 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/net/sctp/sm_sideeffect.c b/net/sctp/sm_sideeffect.c
> index 5d6883f..f900f8e 100644
> --- a/net/sctp/sm_sideeffect.c
> +++ b/net/sctp/sm_sideeffect.c
> @@ -496,11 +496,10 @@ static void sctp_do_8_2_transport_strike(sctp_cmd_seq_t *commands,
>
> /* If the transport error count is greater than the pf_retrans
> * threshold, and less than pathmaxrtx, and if the current state
> - * is not SCTP_UNCONFIRMED, then mark this transport as Partially
> - * Failed, see SCTP Quick Failover Draft, section 5.1
> + * is SCTP_ACTIVE, then mark this transport as Partially Failed,
> + * see SCTP Quick Failover Draft, section 5.1
> */
> - if ((transport->state != SCTP_PF) &&
> - (transport->state != SCTP_UNCONFIRMED) &&
> + if ((transport->state == SCTP_ACTIVE) &&
> (asoc->pf_retrans < transport->pathmaxrxt) &&
> (transport->error_count > asoc->pf_retrans)) {
>
>
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