mac80211: probe unexercised mesh links
authorRajkumar Manoharan <rmanohar@codeaurora.org>
Thu, 11 Apr 2019 20:47:26 +0000 (13:47 -0700)
committerJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Fri, 26 Apr 2019 11:02:11 +0000 (13:02 +0200)
commit8828f81ad4a2f4e89ebe6e7793c06ed767c31d53
tree71415b59b1233bbca345250bcbdc622ba99fdc47
parent060167729a78d626abaee1a0ebb64b252374426e
mac80211: probe unexercised mesh links

The requirement for mesh link metric refreshing, is that from one
mesh point we be able to send some data frames to other mesh points
which are not currently selected as a primary traffic path, but which
are only 1 hop away. The absence of the primary path to the chosen node
makes it necessary to apply some form of marking on a chosen packet
stream so that the packets can be properly steered to the selected node
for testing, and not by the regular mesh path lookup.

Tested-by: Pradeep Kumar Chitrapu <pradeepc@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanohar@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
include/net/mac80211.h
net/mac80211/cfg.c
net/mac80211/ieee80211_i.h
net/mac80211/mesh_hwmp.c
net/mac80211/tx.c