netdev - Re: [PATCH V4 net-next 0/2] net: implement SMC-R solution

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Date:	Tue, 25 Aug 2015 11:18:49 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	ubraun@...ux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc:	utz.bacher@...ibm.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-s390@...r.kernel.org, schwidefsky@...ibm.com,
	heiko.carstens@...ibm.com, ursula.braun@...ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH V4 net-next 0/2] net: implement SMC-R solution

From: Ursula Braun <ubraun@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2015 13:30:27 +0200

> this is V4 of my SMC-R patches:
> Since you are asking for a solution "100% in our own separate module
> with our own can of worms", we have to give up the transparent detection
> whether a communication peer can do SMC-R or not (this has been the
> purpose of the rejected TCP hooks). Instead, we want just the new
> self-contained SMC-R socket family added to the kernel.
> By the way, since August 2015 the SMC-R Informational RFC is no longer
> a draft, but published as RFC7609.

The tcp_set_keepalive() layering hack is still beyond what I'm willing
to apply, sorry.

Also, as a coding style note, all of your code needs to be adjusted to
declare local function variables in "reverse christimas tree" order,
that is longest line to shortest.
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