On Mon, 2015-07-06 at 17:11 +0200, Ursula Braun wrote:
> From: Ursula Braun <ursula.br...@de.ibm.com>
>
> The SMC-R protocol defines dynamic discovery of peers. This is done by
> implementing experimental TCP options as defined in RFC6994. The TCP code
> needs to be extended to support RFC6994.
>
> Setting the TCP experimental option for SMC-R [2] will be triggered from
> kernel exploiters like the new SMC-R socket family by setting a new
> flag "syn_smc" on struct tcp_sock of the connecting and the listening
> socket. If the client peer is SMC-R capable, flag syn_smc is kept on the
> connecting socket after the 3-way TCP handshake, otherwise it is reset.
> If the server peer is SMC-R capable, the new connected TCP socket has
> the new flag set, otherwise not.
>
> Code snippet client:
> tcp_sk(sock->sk)->syn_smc = 1;
> rc = kernel_connect(sock, addr, alen, flags);
> if (tcp_sk(sock->sk)->syn_smc) {
> /* switch to smc for this connection */
>
> Code snippet server:
> tcp_sk(sock->sk)->syn_smc = 1;
> rc = kernel_listen(sock, backlog);
> rc = kernel_accept(sock, &newsock, 0);
> if (tcp_sk(newsock->sk)->syn_smc) {
> /* switch to smc for this connection */
>
> References:
> [1] Shared Use of TCP Experimental Options RFC 6994:
> https://tools.ietf.org/rfc/rfc6994.txt
> [2] IANA ExID SMCR:
>
> http://www.iana.org/assignments/tcp-parameters/tcp-parameters.xhtml#tcp-exids
>
> This patch has already been posted in June 2013, but Dave Miller has
> postponed applying till the user of the new flags, ie. the entire SMC-R
> protocol stack is implemented.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ursula Braun <ubr...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> struct tcp_out_options {
> u16 options; /* bit field of OPTION_* */
> @@ -544,6 +545,14 @@ static void tcp_options_write(__be32 *ptr, struct
> tcp_sock *tp,
> }
> ptr += (len + 3) >> 2;
> }
> +
> + if (unlikely(OPTION_SMC & options)) {
> + *ptr++ = htonl((TCPOPT_NOP << 24) |
> + (TCPOPT_NOP << 16) |
> + (TCPOPT_EXP << 8) |
> + (TCPOLEN_EXP_SMC_BASE));
> + *ptr++ = htonl(TCPOPT_SMC_MAGIC);
> + }
> }
I am concerned about adding an additional conditional branch in TCP
write fast path, on all hosts, while SMC seems to be available only for
some hardware class.
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