netdev - Re: Add a SOCK_DESTROY operation to close sockets from userspace

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Date:	Thu, 19 Nov 2015 14:36:48 -0800
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>
Cc:	Tom Herbert <tom@...bertland.com>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	zenczykowski <zenczykowski@...il.com>,
	Lorenzo Colitti <lorenzo@...gle.com>,
	Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>,
	Linux Kernel Network Developers <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, Erik Kline <ek@...gle.com>,
	Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: Add a SOCK_DESTROY operation to close sockets from userspace

On Thu, 2015-11-19 at 23:31 +0100, Hannes Frederic Sowa wrote:

> I thought it would be necessary to support multipathing in QUIC?

It is not necessary ;)

There are billions of flows sharing Internet pipes, no need to double
their numbers, it wont help at all.

Simply use one path with appropriate Congestion Control, and it is fine.



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