netdev - Re: [PATCH v2] tcp: split tcp_ecn sysctl knob to distinguish between IPv4 and IPv6

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Message-ID: <20130103125736.GI4464@order.stressinduktion.org>
Date:	Thu, 3 Jan 2013 13:57:36 +0100
From:	Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] tcp: split tcp_ecn sysctl knob to distinguish between IPv4 and IPv6

On Thu, Jan 03, 2013 at 04:47:40AM -0800, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> On Thu, 2013-01-03 at 01:00 +0100, Hannes Frederic Sowa wrote:
> > ECN could be more reliable when used with IPv6 (I don't have proofs). For
> > people who want to try ECN with IPv6 but still have problems connecting
> > to destinations because of broken IPv4 routers this switch allows one
> > to enable ECN just for IPv6.
> > 
> > Perhaps ECN could be enabled by default in future.
> > 
> > No code changes since initial submission, just added documentation.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>
> > ---
> 
> It would be nice to make the ecn sysctl per net namespace.
> 
> Do you have an idea of how to adapt your patch to get this as well ?

Currently not, but I will try. :)

Is the direction to split the sysctl ok? Or should it be a unified sysctl for
ipv4/ipv6 and only be separate per namespace?

Thanks!

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