[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [day] [month] [year] [list]
Message-ID: <4A403E67.8090906@atr.jp>
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 11:31:03 +0900
From: Kengo Sakai <kengo.sakai@....jp>
To: Rémi Denis-Courmont
<remi.denis-courmont@...ia.com>
CC: "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [QUESTION] About IPv6 flowlabel in a TCP IPv6 Server
Hello Rémi,
Thanks for your mail.
Rémi Denis-Courmont wrote:
> On Tuesday 16 June 2009 04:37:21 ext Kengo Sakai wrote:
>> 2) Can a flowlabel be set to a sending packet in a TCP IPv6 Server?
>
> I don't understand your question. To me, you cannot send "packets", at least
> not directly, via TCP sockets in the first place. Userland pushes data to the
> kernel buffers, and those buffers are segmented in some opaque (from userland)
> way. There is certainly no 1:1 matching of send() calls to packets.
Sorry, I mistook the expression.
I have understood that the data pushed from userland is segmented into
packets in kernel.
I want to set a flowlabel to packets into which kernel segment the data
which TCP IPv6 Server send(2) or write(2).
But I can't do it.
Do you have any idea?
Thanks,
Kengo
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Powered by blists - more mailing lists