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Cluster TIPC

The Cluster Telecom Inter Process Communication (TIPC) protocol is part of cluster software as described in the OSDL Cluster Architecture document.

The capabilities of TIPC are described on sourceforge.

The Telecom Inter Process Communication (TIPC) protocol is specially designed for intra cluster communication, and has been used as a part of Ericsson products for years. It has now been ported to Linux, provided as a portable source code package implementing a loadable kernel module.

Main features of TIPC include:

 - Full location transparency
- Lightweight, "agile" connections
- Generic, adaptive, signalling link protocol
- Performance
- Quality of service
- Subscription services


OSDL took a snapshot of the TIPC code and cleaned up the code to make it more palettable for the kernel community and to simplify it from platform portability code.  However, rather than to have two parallel TIPC development trees, this code has been frozen.  Any new developement will take place in the sourceforge tree.   The bitkeeper trees containing the OSDL TIPC code is still accessible as a reference.

  • Bitkeeper repositories for OSDL TIPC 
    • OSDL project - bk://developer.osdl.org/tipc/stable
    • OSDL project - bk://developer.osdl.org/tipc/unstable
    • OSDL project - bk://developer.osdl.org/tipc/testing
    • OSDL project - bk://developer.osdl.org/tipc/tools
    Coverage for the latest stable tree can be found here.
     
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