Re: [tipc-discussion] [net-next 2/2] tipc: reduce sensitive to retransmit failures

[David M. <da...@da...>]

From: Hoang Le <hoa...@de...>
Date: Wed,  6 Nov 2019 13:26:10 +0700

> With huge cluster (e.g >200nodes), the amount of that flow:
> gap -> retransmit packet -> acked will take time in case of STATE_MSG
> dropped/delayed because a lot of traffic. This lead to 1.5 sec tolerance
> value criteria made link easy failure around 2nd, 3rd of failed
> retransmission attempts.
> 
> Instead of re-introduced criteria of 99 faled retransmissions to fix the
> issue, we increase failure detection timer to ten times tolerance value.
> 
> Fixes: 77cf8edbc0e7 ("tipc: simplify stale link failure criteria")
> Acked-by: Jon Maloy <jon...@er...>
> Signed-off-by: Hoang Le <hoa...@de...>

Applied.