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Re: [PATCH v2] mac80211: mesh - always do every discovery retry

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On Wed, 2017-03-29 at 18:33 +0800, Chun-Yeow Yeoh wrote:
> I would suggest the following modification of commit messages and
> code. Let me know whether this is fine.
> 
> ---------
> I would suggest the following edition to the commit message:
> 
> Instead of stopping path discovery when a path is established,
> continue the
> attempts to find alternative paths until we hit the
> dot11MeshHWMPmaxPREQretries
> limit. However, this is not a standard behavior and may easily
> increase the number of
> broadcast PREQ frame in your network. So this feature is turned off
> by default.
> 
> and the remaining are removed due to misleading explanation.
> 
> Then, in the mesh_path_timer, I think that only the following is
> needed:
> 
> - if (mpath->flags & MESH_PATH_RESOLVED ||
> - (!(mpath->flags & MESH_PATH_RESOLVING))) {
> + if (!multiple_discoveries &&
> +    (mpath->flags & MESH_PATH_RESOLVED ||
> +     (!(mpath->flags & MESH_PATH_RESOLVING)))) {

Alexis?

johannes



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