netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 05/10] tcp: pass want_cookie down to req

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Date:   Thu, 30 Jul 2020 10:38:42 -0700
From:   Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
To:     Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>
Cc:     netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        mathew.j.martineau@...ux.intel.com,
        Matthieu Baerts <matthieu.baerts@...sares.net>,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 05/10] tcp: pass want_cookie down to req_init function

On Thu, Jul 30, 2020 at 10:15 AM Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de> wrote:
>
> In MPTCP case, we want to know if we should store a new token id or if we
> should try best-effort only (cookie case).
>
> This allows the MPTCP core to detect when it should elide the storage
> of the generated MPTCP token.
>

It seems you add later another patch, introducing cookie_tcp_reqsk_alloc()

We could rename req->cookie_ts  bit to req->syncookie  in order to not
change function signatures.