On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 09:18:05PM +0200, David Herrmann wrote:
> From: Tom Gundersen <t...@jklm.no>
> 
> The transaction engine is an object that lives on the stack and is used
> to stage and commit multicasts properly. Unlike unicasts, a multicast
> cannot just be queued on each destination, but must be properly
> synchronized. This requires us to first stage each message on their
> respective destination, then sync and tick the clocks, and eventual
> commit all messages.
> 
> The transaction context implements this logic for both, unicasts and
> multicasts. It hides the timestamp handling and takes care to properly
> synchronize accesses to the peer queues.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tom Gundersen <t...@jklm.no>
> Signed-off-by: David Herrmann <dh.herrm...@gmail.com>
> ---
>  ipc/bus1/Makefile |   1 +
>  ipc/bus1/peer.c   |   2 +
>  ipc/bus1/peer.h   |   3 +
>  ipc/bus1/tx.c     | 360 
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  ipc/bus1/tx.h     | 102 ++++++++++++++++

See, this is way more than 4 lines.

You don't need any of this for causality.

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