netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] tcp: enable sockets to use MSG

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Date:	Fri, 1 Nov 2013 09:09:16 -0700
From:	Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@...gle.com>
To:	Rick Jones <rick.jones2@...com>
Cc:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@...gle.com>,
	Sivasankar Radhakrishnan <sivasankar@...ucsd.edu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] tcp: enable sockets to use MSG_FASTOPEN by default

On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 8:29 AM, Rick Jones <rick.jones2@...com> wrote:
> On 10/31/2013 04:19 PM, Eric Dumazet wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, 2013-10-31 at 09:19 -0700, Yuchung Cheng wrote:
>>>
>>> Applications have started to use Fast Open (e.g., Chrome browser has
>>> such an optional flag) and the feature has gone through several
>>> generations of kernels since 3.7 with many real network tests. It's
>>> time to enable this flag by default for applications to test more
>>> conveniently and extensively.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@...gle.com>
>>> Signed-off-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@...gle.com>
>>> ---
>>
>>
>> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
>
>
> Which TCP/IP stacks besides Linux have Fast Open at this point and for how
> long have they had it?  Basically, how prevalent are servers out there (both
> Internet and intranet) with support for Fast Open?
google.com supports it. we are working on enabling more Android and
ChromeOS to use it.

>
> http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2013/11/01/november-2013-web-server-survey.html
> doesn't go down to the OS level, and
> http://www.netcraft.com/internet-data-mining/ssl-survey/ is only from May
> and was in the context of SSL sides, but it does provide an interesting
> break-down of "OS share" which looks reasonably stable going back three
> years and so probably isn't too far off presently.
>
> <insert the same sort of question about those firewalls and intermediate
> devices which make our lives so much fun here>
>
> rick jones
>
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