Implements several changes to the transport layer segmented tx to
improve group message performance:
- Moves retransmit counter to tx context instead of per packet. As every
unacked packet is sent every retransmit, the retransmit counters would
be the same in each segment. This makes it easier to control progress.
- Delays the scheduling of the retransmit until the completion of the
last segment by adding a seg_pending counter. This is essentially the
same as the old behavior, except that the old behavior might retrigger
the sending before all segments are finished if the advertising is
slow.
- Allows the group transmits to stop as soon as all retransmits have
been exhausted, instead of timing out waiting for acks that won't
come. This allows group tx to finish without error.
- Fixes a bug where a failed TX would block IV update.
- Cancels any pending transmissions of acked segments.
- Reduces log level for several common group tx scenarios that aren't
erronous.
Backport of https://github.com/apache/mynewt-nimble/pull/724
Mesh spec 1.0.1 changes proxy disabling behavior to only affect the
relaying from proxy nodes. Previously, disabling proxy would shut down
all proxy and node activity.
Tweaks from the original commit:
- Removed redundant call to bt_mesh_adv_update() in gatt_proxy_set()
- Removed invalid ref to 4.2.11.1 in node_identity_set()
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According to Mesh Profile Spec 1.0.1, Section 4.2.11:
"If the Proxy feature is disabled, a GATT client device can connect
over GATT to that node for configuration and control. Messages from
the GATT bearer are not relayed to the advertising bearer."
Moreover some notes have been removed from the spec compared to
version 1.0:
Mesh Profile Spec 1.0, Section 4.2.11:
"Upon transition from GATT Proxy state 0x01 to GATT Proxy state 0x00
the GATT Bearer Server shall disconnect all GATT Bearer Clients."
"The Configuration Client should turn off the Proxy state as the last
step in the configuration process."
Mesh Profile Spec 1.0, Section 4.2.11.1:
"When the GATT Proxy state is set to 0x00, the Node Identity state
for all subnets shall be set to 0x00 and shall not be changed."
Until now the choice of reliable sending (segmented messages with
acks) was implicitly dependent on the size of the payload. Add a new
member to the bt_mesh_model_pub to force using segment acks even when
the payload would fit a single unsegmented message.
When PB-GATT support has been enabled the provisioning code "borrows"
the buffer from the proxy code. However, the way that initialization
was happening the proxy buffers were initialized only after
provisioning initialization, resulting in a corrupted buffer with
buf->data pointing to NULL. Reorder the initialization calls so that
proxy is done first and provisioning only after it.
Allow models to skip a periodic publish interval by returning an error
from the publish update callback.
Previously, an error return from publish update would cancel periodic
publishing. This can't be recovered from, and as such, no valid model
implementation could return an error from this callback, and there was
no way to skip a periodic publish.
The function bt_mesh_ctl_send() used to support maximum length of
11 bytes. The segmentation complies with the BLE Mesh Standard.
The ack is disabled in case of non unicast address.
Previously only mesh node info is supported to be stored
in flash. So when trying to reset the node, we only need
to judge if the BLE_MESH_VALID flag is set.
Currently we support storing both node & Provisioner info
in flash, when trying to erase the node info from flash,
the BLE_MESH_NODE flag will be checked. So we need to set
bt_mesh.flags to 0 when all the erase operations are done.
During BLE Mesh Provisioner initialization, the stack will restore
the nodes information if settings storage is enabled.
Previously when a failure happens (e.g. found the same uuid) during
the restore procedure, the information of the following nodes will
not be restored and error will be directly returned.
But this will introduce some problem with user experience, because
some newly provisioned nodes information will not be restored and
Provisioner will not be able to control those nodes.
So we change the operation here, when a failure happens during the
restore procedure, Provisioner will only ignore the information of
the current node and continue restoring other nodes information.
With this change, if a Provisioner has provisioned the maximum
number of nodes, it can still report the unprovisioned device
beacon from other nodes to the application layer. And this will
be more reasonable compared with the previous implementation.
Previously when the node array of Provisioner is full, no beacon
from unprovisioned devices will be reported, only some warning
logs will be given.
Previously only check the node address when it is assigned by the
application layer. Here we also check the address when the address
is allocated internally. And this will be useful when some mesh
internal tests are performed.
Previously the BLE_MESH_MAX_STORED_NODES option is added for
internal mesh test, which will be a little confusing for the
users to understand.
Here we remove this option, instead the BLE_MESH_MAX_PROV_NODES
will be used for all the cases. For mesh internal test, when
the test function is called to add some nodes info, the info
will be stored in the array of provisioned nodes directly.
The replay protection list of Provisioner should be at least equal
to the number of nodes with the precondition that each node contains
only one element.
The help information of replay protection list is updated, and the
maximum number of nodes for Provisioner is adjusted based on the
replay protection list size.
Using the ble mesh white list test functions, a node can choose to
only receive mesh messages from a specific node and relay the
messages for it. Messages from other nodes will be ignored.
