netdev - Re: [PATCH v3 0/2] Enhance virtio-vsock connection semantics

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Date:   Sun, 16 Feb 2020 19:02:07 -0800 (PST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     sebastien.boeuf@...el.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, sgarzare@...hat.com, stefanha@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/2] Enhance virtio-vsock connection semantics

From: Sebastien Boeuf <sebastien.boeuf@...el.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2020 12:48:00 +0100

> This series improves the semantics behind the way virtio-vsock server
> accepts connections coming from the client. Whenever the server
> receives a connection request from the client, if it is bound to the
> socket but not yet listening, it will answer with a RST packet. The
> point is to ensure each request from the client is quickly processed
> so that the client can decide about the strategy of retrying or not.
> 
> The series includes along with the improvement patch a new test to
> ensure the behavior is consistent across all hypervisors drivers.

Series applied to net-next, thanks Sebastien.