netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 0/3] net/tcp-fastopen: Add new userspace API support

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Date:   Wed, 25 Jan 2017 14:09:49 -0500 (EST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     tracywwnj@...il.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, edumazet@...gle.com, ycheng@...gle.com,
        weiwan@...gle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/3] net/tcp-fastopen: Add new userspace API
 support

From: Wei Wang <tracywwnj@...il.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2017 10:59:19 -0800

> The patch series is to add support for new userspace API for TCP fastopen
> sockets. 
> In the current code, user has to call sendto()/sendmsg() with special flag
> MSG_FASTOPEN for TCP fastopen sockets. This API is quite different from the
> normal TCP socket API and can be cumbersome for applications to make use
> fastopen sockets.
> So this new patch introduces a new way of using TCP fastopen sockets which
> is similar to normal TCP sockets with a new sockopt TCP_FASTOPEN_CONNECT.
> More details about it is described in the third patch.
> (First 2 patches are preparations for the third patch.)

Series applied.