netdev - Re: [PATCH v2 0/7] TCP Fast Open client

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Date:	Fri, 27 Jul 2012 21:06:53 +0200
From:	Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@...il.com>
To:	Jerry Chu <hkchu@...gle.com>
Cc:	Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@...gle.com>, davem@...emloft.net,
	edumazet@...gle.com, ncardwell@...gle.com, sivasankar@...ucsd.edu,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, rick jones <perfgeek@....com>,
	Terry Lam <vtlam@...ucsd.edu>,
	Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/7] TCP Fast Open client

On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 7:28 PM, Jerry Chu <hkchu@...gle.com> wrote:
> +rick, terry
>
> Hi Michael,
>
> Thanks for your interest!
>
> On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 4:42 AM, Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@...il.com> wrote:
>> Yuchung,
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 11:01 PM, Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@...gle.com> wrote:
>>> ChangeLog since v1:
>>>   - Reduce tons of code by storing Fast Open stats in the TCP metrics :)
>>>   - Clarify the purpose of using an experimental option in patch 1/7
>>>
>>> This patch series implement the client functionality of TCP Fast Open.
>>> TCP Fast Open (TFO) allows data to be carried in the SYN and SYN-ACK
>>> packets and consumed by the receiving end during the initial connection
>>> handshake, thus providing a saving of up to one full round trip time (RTT)
>>> compared to standard TCP requiring a three-way handshake (3WHS) to
>>> complete before data can be exchanged.
>>>
>>> The protocol change is detailed in the IETF internet draft at
>>> http://www.ietf.org/id/draft-ietf-tcpm-fastopen-00.txt . The research
>>
>> This URL appears to be invalid. I assume the following is the correct
>> current version:
>> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-tcpm-fastopen-01
>> ?
>
> Correct.
>
>>
>> Is there some sample client and server userspace test code available?
>
> There are some sample code in a SIGCOMM paper (
> http://conferences.sigcomm.org/co-next/2011/papers/1569470463.pdf). It's
> real simple but we haven't published the server side code yet. (It's been
> ready but I need to rebase it to the latest net-next.)

The examples in that paper seem to be outdated. At the very least,
names of constants for socket options etc have changed.

I've been trying to test this feature from userspace, but am not
getting quite the results I expect. It sounds like you are saying that
not all the kernel pieces are there yet to support TFO in userspace.
Is that correct?

Thanks,

Michael

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