Ying Xue says:
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standardize TIPC SKB queue operations
Now the following SKB queues are created and maintained within internal
TIPC stack:
- link transmission queue
- link deferred queue
- link receive queue
- socket outgoing packet chain
- name table outgoing packet chain
In order to manage above queues, TIPC stack declares a sk_buff pointer
for each queue to record its head, and directly modifies "prev" and
"next" SKB pointers of SKB structure when inserting or deleting a SKB
to or from the queue. As these operations are pretty complex, they
easily involve fatal mistakes. If these sk_buff pointers are replaced
with sk_buff_head instances as queue heads and corresponding generic
SKB list APIs are used to manage them, the entire TIPC code would
become quite clean and readable. But before make the change, we need
to clean up below redundant functionalities:
- remove node subscribe infrastructure
- remove protocol message queue
- remove retransmission queue
- clean up process of pushing packets in link layer
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Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>