From patchwork Wed Nov 14 14:08:04 2018 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Simon Wunderlich X-Patchwork-Id: 17637 X-Patchwork-Delegate: sw@simonwunderlich.de Return-Path: X-Original-To: patchwork@open-mesh.org Delivered-To: patchwork@open-mesh.org Received: from open-mesh.org (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by open-mesh.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E5D48329A; Wed, 14 Nov 2018 15:08:59 +0100 (CET) Received-SPF: Pass (mailfrom) identity=mailfrom; client-ip=79.140.42.25; helo=mail.mail.packetmixer.de; envelope-from=sw@simonwunderlich.de; receiver= Received: from mail.mail.packetmixer.de (packetmixer.de [79.140.42.25]) by open-mesh.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 27996828EC for ; Wed, 14 Nov 2018 15:08:24 +0100 (CET) Received: from kero.packetmixer.de (unknown [IPv6:2001:16b8:5504:3000:2117:4962:5a5:5afe]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.mail.packetmixer.de (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 48ADE6201F; Wed, 14 Nov 2018 15:08:23 +0100 (CET) From: Simon Wunderlich To: davem@davemloft.net Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2018 15:08:04 +0100 Message-Id: <20181114140804.18381-17-sw@simonwunderlich.de> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.11.0 In-Reply-To: <20181114140804.18381-1-sw@simonwunderlich.de> References: <20181114140804.18381-1-sw@simonwunderlich.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH 16/16] batman-adv: enable MCAST by default at compile time X-BeenThere: b.a.t.m.a.n@lists.open-mesh.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: The list for a Better Approach To Mobile Ad-hoc Networking List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Reply-To: The list for a Better Approach To Mobile Ad-hoc Networking Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, b.a.t.m.a.n@lists.open-mesh.org Errors-To: b.a.t.m.a.n-bounces@lists.open-mesh.org Sender: "B.A.T.M.A.N" From: Linus Lüssing Thanks to rigorous testing in wireless community mesh networks several issues with multicast entries in the translation table were found and fixed in the last 1.5 years. Now we see the first larger networks (a few hundred nodes) with a batman-adv version with multicast optimizations enabled arising, with no TT / multicast optimization related issues so far. Therefore it seems safe to enable multicast optimizations by default. Signed-off-by: Linus Lüssing Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich --- net/batman-adv/Kconfig | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/net/batman-adv/Kconfig b/net/batman-adv/Kconfig index d6b94559f888..c386e6981416 100644 --- a/net/batman-adv/Kconfig +++ b/net/batman-adv/Kconfig @@ -82,6 +82,7 @@ config BATMAN_ADV_NC config BATMAN_ADV_MCAST bool "Multicast optimisation" depends on BATMAN_ADV && INET && !(BRIDGE=m && BATMAN_ADV=y) + default y help This option enables the multicast optimisation which aims to reduce the air overhead while improving the reliability of