batman-adv: send each broadcast only once on non-wireless interfaces
While it makes sense to send each broadcast thrice on 802.11 (WLAN) interfaces
as broadcasts are often unreliable on these, there is no reason to do so on
other interface types.
The increased the overhead can be harmful on low-bandwidth links like VPN
connections over slow internet lines, therefore it is better to reduce the
number of broadcast packets sent on non-wireless links to one.
Signed-off-by: Matthias Schiffer <mschiffer@universe-factory.net>
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
diff --git a/net/batman-adv/types.h b/net/batman-adv/types.h
index aba8364..5f542bd 100644
--- a/net/batman-adv/types.h
+++ b/net/batman-adv/types.h
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@
* @if_status: status of the interface for batman-adv
* @net_dev: pointer to the net_device
* @frag_seqno: last fragment sequence number sent by this interface
+ * @num_bcasts: number of payload re-broadcasts on this interface (ARQ)
* @hardif_obj: kobject of the per interface sysfs "mesh" directory
* @refcount: number of contexts the object is used
* @batman_adv_ptype: packet type describing packets that should be processed by
@@ -76,6 +77,7 @@
char if_status;
struct net_device *net_dev;
atomic_t frag_seqno;
+ uint8_t num_bcasts;
struct kobject *hardif_obj;
atomic_t refcount;
struct packet_type batman_adv_ptype;