Re: [PATCH net-next 1/3] tcp: introduce TCP experimental option for SMC

2015-07-07 Thread Eric Dumazet
On Tue, 2015-07-07 at 15:57 +0200, Ursula Braun wrote: > Eric, > > understood, would it be acceptable if the SMC-specific hooks in the > TCP-code are enclosed with "#ifdef CONFIG_SMC ... #endif"? If this CONFIG_SMC is enabled only on relevant builds, I guess it would be ok. (Try to use helpers in

Re: [PATCH net-next 1/3] tcp: introduce TCP experimental option for SMC

2015-07-07 Thread Ursula Braun
Eric, understood, would it be acceptable if the SMC-specific hooks in the TCP-code are enclosed with "#ifdef CONFIG_SMC ... #endif"? Regards, Ursula On Mon, 2015-07-06 at 18:08 +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote: > On Mon, 2015-07-06 at 17:11 +0200, Ursula Braun wrote: > > From: Ursula Braun > > > > Th

Re: [PATCH net-next 1/3] tcp: introduce TCP experimental option for SMC

2015-07-06 Thread Eric Dumazet
On Mon, 2015-07-06 at 17:11 +0200, Ursula Braun wrote: > From: Ursula Braun > > 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 experi

[PATCH net-next 1/3] tcp: introduce TCP experimental option for SMC

2015-07-06 Thread Ursula Braun
From: Ursula Braun 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