netdev - Re: [PATCHv2 net-next 0/8] sctp: Implement Stream Interleave: Interaction with Other SCTP Extensions

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Date:   Fri, 15 Dec 2017 13:53:06 -0500 (EST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     lucien.xin@...il.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-sctp@...r.kernel.org,
        marcelo.leitner@...il.com, nhorman@...driver.com
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 net-next 0/8] sctp: Implement Stream Interleave:
 Interaction with Other SCTP Extensions

From: Xin Long <lucien.xin@...il.com>
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2017 00:41:24 +0800

> Stream Interleave would be implemented in two Parts:
> 
>    1. The I-DATA Chunk Supporting User Message Interleaving
>    2. Interaction with Other SCTP Extensions
> 
> Overview in section 2.3 of RFC8260 for Part 2:
> 
>    The usage of the I-DATA chunk might interfere with other SCTP
>    extensions.  Future SCTP extensions MUST describe if and how they
>    interfere with the usage of I-DATA chunks.  For the SCTP extensions
>    already defined when this document was published, the details are
>    given in the following subsections.
> 
> As the 2nd part of Stream Interleave Implementation, this patchset mostly
> adds the support for SCTP Partial Reliability Extension with I-FORWARD-TSN
> chunk. Then adjusts stream scheduler and stream reconfig to make them work
> properly with I-DATA chunks.
> 
> In the last patch, all stream interleave codes will be enabled by adding
> sysctl to allow users to use this feature.
> 
> v1 -> v2:
>   - removed the intl_enable check from sctp_chunk_event_lookup, as Marcelo's
>     suggestion.
>   - fixed a typo in changelog.

Series applied, thanks.