[marek] batman-adv: Unify the first 3 bytes in each packet

Message ID 1306583129-4854-1-git-send-email-lindner_marek@yahoo.de (mailing list archive)
State Superseded, archived
Headers

Commit Message

Marek Lindner May 28, 2011, 11:45 a.m. UTC
  From: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>

The amount of duplicated code in the receive and routing code can be reduced
when all headers provide the packet type, version and ttl in the same first
bytes.

Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
---
* Only the first 3 bytes have to be the same.
* vis_packet was not changed yet.

 packet.h |   30 ++++++++++++++++++------------
 1 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
  

Comments

Sven Eckelmann May 28, 2011, 12:07 p.m. UTC | #1
On Saturday 28 May 2011 13:45:29 Marek Lindner wrote:
> @@ -99,16 +100,19 @@ struct icmp_packet_rr {
>  struct unicast_packet {
>  	uint8_t  packet_type;
>  	uint8_t  version;  /* batman version field */
> -	uint8_t  dest[6];
>  	uint8_t  ttl;
> +	uint8_t  reserved;
> +	uint8_t  dest[6];
>  } __packed;
> 
>  struct unicast_frag_packet {
>  	uint8_t  packet_type;
>  	uint8_t  version;  /* batman version field */
> -	uint8_t  dest[6];
>  	uint8_t  ttl;
> +	uint8_t  reserved;
> +	uint8_t  dest[6];
>  	uint8_t  flags;
> +	uint8_t  align;
>  	uint8_t  orig[6];
>  	uint16_t seqno;
>  } __packed;

Why dont you use the reserverd part for the flags which are currently not in 
unicast? Then you could also remove that other align byte. It would still be 
possible to add flags to unicast packets when necessary.

> @@ -116,18 +120,20 @@ struct unicast_frag_packet {
>  struct bcast_packet {
>  	uint8_t  packet_type;
>  	uint8_t  version;  /* batman version field */
> -	uint8_t  orig[6];
>  	uint8_t  ttl;
> +	uint8_t  reserved;
> +	uint8_t  orig[6];
>  	uint32_t seqno;
>  } __packed;

Wouldn't that lead to an unaligned seqno?

Kind regards,
	Sven
  
Marek Lindner May 28, 2011, 12:17 p.m. UTC | #2
On Saturday 28 May 2011 14:07:10 Sven Eckelmann wrote:
> Why dont you use the reserverd part for the flags which are currently not
> in unicast? Then you could also remove that other align byte. It would
> still be possible to add flags to unicast packets when necessary.

The unicast_frag header assumes it looks like the unicast header plus some 
extra fields:

struct unicast_frag_packet {
	struct unicast_packet unicast_packet;
	uint8_t  flags;
	uint8_t  align;
	uint8_t  orig[6];
	uint16_t seqno;
};

We probably should add a little comment there to make that clear.

Both reserved fields (unicast + unicast frag) are going to be converted to 
ttvn with the tt patches.


> > +	uint8_t  reserved;
> > +	uint8_t  orig[6];
> > 
> >  	uint32_t seqno;
> >  
> >  } __packed;
> 
> Wouldn't that lead to an unaligned seqno?

Yes, I overlooked that the seqno is 32bit wide.

Regards,
Marek
  
Sven Eckelmann May 28, 2011, 12:43 p.m. UTC | #3
On Saturday 28 May 2011 14:17:14 Marek Lindner wrote:
> On Saturday 28 May 2011 14:07:10 Sven Eckelmann wrote:
> > Why dont you use the reserverd part for the flags which are currently not
> > in unicast? Then you could also remove that other align byte. It would
> > still be possible to add flags to unicast packets when necessary.
> 
> The unicast_frag header assumes it looks like the unicast header plus some
> extra fields:

Where does it assume that the frag is _not_ part of the unicast_packet header?

> 
> struct unicast_frag_packet {
> 	struct unicast_packet unicast_packet;
> 	uint8_t  flags;
> 	uint8_t  align;
> 	uint8_t  orig[6];
> 	uint16_t seqno;
> };
> 
> We probably should add a little comment there to make that clear.
> 
> Both reserved fields (unicast + unicast frag) are going to be converted to
> ttvn with the tt patches.

Ok, makes sense to use reserve fields then

Kind regards,
	Sven
  

Patch

diff --git a/packet.h b/packet.h
index eda9965..36a3aad 100644
--- a/packet.h
+++ b/packet.h
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ 
 #define BAT_UNICAST_FRAG 0x06
 
 /* this file is included by batctl which needs these defines */
-#define COMPAT_VERSION 12
+#define COMPAT_VERSION 14
 #define DIRECTLINK 0x40
 #define VIS_SERVER 0x20
 #define PRIMARIES_FIRST_HOP 0x10
@@ -55,15 +55,15 @@ 
 struct batman_packet {
 	uint8_t  packet_type;
 	uint8_t  version;  /* batman version field */
+	uint8_t  ttl;
 	uint8_t  flags;    /* 0x40: DIRECTLINK flag, 0x20 VIS_SERVER flag... */
-	uint8_t  tq;
 	uint32_t seqno;
 	uint8_t  orig[6];
 	uint8_t  prev_sender[6];
-	uint8_t  ttl;
-	uint8_t  num_tt;
 	uint8_t  gw_flags;  /* flags related to gateway class */
-	uint8_t  align;
+	uint8_t  tq;
+	uint8_t  num_tt;
+	uint8_t  reserved;
 } __packed;
 
 #define BAT_PACKET_LEN sizeof(struct batman_packet)
@@ -71,12 +71,13 @@  struct batman_packet {
 struct icmp_packet {
 	uint8_t  packet_type;
 	uint8_t  version;  /* batman version field */
-	uint8_t  msg_type; /* see ICMP message types above */
 	uint8_t  ttl;
+	uint8_t  msg_type; /* see ICMP message types above */
 	uint8_t  dst[6];
 	uint8_t  orig[6];
 	uint16_t seqno;
 	uint8_t  uid;
+	uint8_t  reserved;
 } __packed;
 
 #define BAT_RR_LEN 16
@@ -86,8 +87,8 @@  struct icmp_packet {
 struct icmp_packet_rr {
 	uint8_t  packet_type;
 	uint8_t  version;  /* batman version field */
-	uint8_t  msg_type; /* see ICMP message types above */
 	uint8_t  ttl;
+	uint8_t  msg_type; /* see ICMP message types above */
 	uint8_t  dst[6];
 	uint8_t  orig[6];
 	uint16_t seqno;
@@ -99,16 +100,19 @@  struct icmp_packet_rr {
 struct unicast_packet {
 	uint8_t  packet_type;
 	uint8_t  version;  /* batman version field */
-	uint8_t  dest[6];
 	uint8_t  ttl;
+	uint8_t  reserved;
+	uint8_t  dest[6];
 } __packed;
 
 struct unicast_frag_packet {
 	uint8_t  packet_type;
 	uint8_t  version;  /* batman version field */
-	uint8_t  dest[6];
 	uint8_t  ttl;
+	uint8_t  reserved;
+	uint8_t  dest[6];
 	uint8_t  flags;
+	uint8_t  align;
 	uint8_t  orig[6];
 	uint16_t seqno;
 } __packed;
@@ -116,18 +120,20 @@  struct unicast_frag_packet {
 struct bcast_packet {
 	uint8_t  packet_type;
 	uint8_t  version;  /* batman version field */
-	uint8_t  orig[6];
 	uint8_t  ttl;
+	uint8_t  reserved;
+	uint8_t  orig[6];
 	uint32_t seqno;
 } __packed;
 
 struct vis_packet {
 	uint8_t  packet_type;
 	uint8_t  version;        /* batman version field */
+	uint8_t  ttl;		 /* TTL */
 	uint8_t  vis_type;	 /* which type of vis-participant sent this? */
-	uint8_t  entries;	 /* number of entries behind this struct */
 	uint32_t seqno;		 /* sequence number */
-	uint8_t  ttl;		 /* TTL */
+	uint8_t  entries;	 /* number of entries behind this struct */
+	uint8_t  reserved;
 	uint8_t  vis_orig[6];	 /* originator that announces its neighbors */
 	uint8_t  target_orig[6]; /* who should receive this packet */
 	uint8_t  sender_orig[6]; /* who sent or rebroadcasted this packet */