/* -------------------------------------------------------------------------
* struct rlb_client_info contains all info related to a specific rx client
- * connection. This is the Clients Hash Table entry struct
+ * connection. This is the Clients Hash Table entry struct.
+ * Note that this is not a proper hash table; if a new client's IP address
+ * hash collides with an existing client entry, the old entry is replaced.
+ *
+ * There is a linked list (linked by the used_next and used_prev members)
+ * linking all the used entries of the hash table. This allows updating
+ * all the clients without walking over all the unused elements of the table.
+ *
+ * There are also linked lists of entries with identical hash(ip_src). These
+ * allow cleaning up the table from ip_src<->mac_src associations that have
+ * become outdated and would cause sending out invalid ARP updates to the
+ * network. These are linked by the (src_next and src_prev members).
* -------------------------------------------------------------------------
*/
struct rlb_client_info {
__be32 ip_src; /* the server IP address */
__be32 ip_dst; /* the client IP address */
+ u8 mac_src[ETH_ALEN]; /* the server MAC address */
u8 mac_dst[ETH_ALEN]; /* the client MAC address */
- u32 next; /* The next Hash table entry index */
- u32 prev; /* The previous Hash table entry index */
+
+ /* list of used hash table entries, starting at rx_hashtbl_used_head */
+ u32 used_next;
+ u32 used_prev;
+
+ /* ip_src based hashing */
+ u32 src_next; /* next entry with same hash(ip_src) */
+ u32 src_prev; /* prev entry with same hash(ip_src) */
+ u32 src_first; /* first entry with hash(ip_src) == this entry's index */
+
u8 assigned; /* checking whether this entry is assigned */
u8 ntt; /* flag - need to transmit client info */
struct slave *slave; /* the slave assigned to this client */
int rlb_enabled;
struct rlb_client_info *rx_hashtbl; /* Receive hash table */
spinlock_t rx_hashtbl_lock;
- u32 rx_hashtbl_head;
+ u32 rx_hashtbl_used_head;
u8 rx_ntt; /* flag - need to transmit
* to all rx clients
*/