netdev - Re: [PATCH v2 1/7] net-tcp: Fast Open base

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Date:	Wed, 18 Jul 2012 23:16:10 +0200
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@...gle.com>
Cc:	davem@...emloft.net, hkchu@...gle.com, edumazet@...gle.com,
	ncardwell@...gle.com, sivasankar@...ucsd.edu,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/7] net-tcp: Fast Open base

On Wed, 2012-07-18 at 14:01 -0700, Yuchung Cheng wrote:
> This patch impelements the common code for both the client and server.
> 
> 1. TCP Fast Open option processing. Since Fast Open does not have an
>    option number assigned by IANA yet, it shares the experiment option
>    code 254 by implementing draft-ietf-tcpm-experimental-options
>    with a 16 bits magic number 0xF989. This enables global experiments
>    without clashing the scarce(2) experimental options available for TCP.
> 
>    When the draft status becomes standard (hopefully), the client should
>    switch to the new option number assigned while the server supports
>    both numbers for transistion.
> 
> 2. The new sysctl tcp_fastopen
> 
> 3. A place holder init function
> 
> Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@...gle.com>
> ---

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


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