netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 3/3] net/tcp-fastopen: Add new API support

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Date:   Mon, 23 Jan 2017 11:15:09 -0800
From:   Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:     Wei Wang <tracywwnj@...il.com>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@...gle.com>, Wei Wang <weiwan@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 3/3] net/tcp-fastopen: Add new API support

On Mon, 2017-01-23 at 10:59 -0800, Wei Wang wrote:
> From: Wei Wang <weiwan@...gle.com>
> 
> This patch adds a new socket option, TCP_FASTOPEN_CONNECT, as an
> alternative way to perform Fast Open on the active side (client). Prior
> to this patch, a client needs to replace the connect() call with
> sendto(MSG_FASTOPEN). This can be cumbersome for applications who want
> to use Fast Open: these socket operations are often done in lower layer
> libraries used by many other applications. Changing these libraries
> and/or the socket call sequences are not trivial. A more convenient
> approach is to perform Fast Open by simply enabling a socket option when
> the socket is created w/o changing other socket calls sequence:

> Signed-off-by: Wei Wang <weiwan@...gle.com>
> ---

Thanks for this hard work Wei.

Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>