netdev - Re: [net-next] tcp: add TCP_INFO status for failed client TFO

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Date:   Mon, 21 Oct 2019 13:36:55 -0700
From:   Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
To:     Christoph Paasch <cpaasch@...le.com>
Cc:     Jason Baron <jbaron@...mai.com>, Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@...gle.com>,
        Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@...gle.com>,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [net-next] tcp: add TCP_INFO status for failed client TFO

On Mon, Oct 21, 2019 at 12:53 PM Christoph Paasch <cpaasch@...le.com> wrote:
>

> Actually, longterm I hope we would be able to get rid of the
> blackhole-detection and fallback heuristics. In a far distant future where
> these middleboxes have been weeded out ;-)
>
> So, do we really want to eternalize this as part of the API in tcp_info ?
>

A getsockopt() option won't be available for netlink diag (ss command).

So it all depends on plans to use this FASTOPEN information ?