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net-tcp: Fast Open base
authorYuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Thu, 19 Jul 2012 06:43:05 +0000 (06:43 +0000)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Thu, 19 Jul 2012 17:55:36 +0000 (10:55 -0700)
commit2100c8d2d9db23c0a09901a782bb4e3b21bee298
treefd5842c540bf77c3fa546797c1c8e94f054cc86c
parent4cce66cdd14aa5006a011505865d932adb49f600
net-tcp: Fast Open base

This patch impelements the common code for both the client and server.

1. TCP Fast Open option processing. Since Fast Open does not have an
   option number assigned by IANA yet, it shares the experiment option
   code 254 by implementing draft-ietf-tcpm-experimental-options
   with a 16 bits magic number 0xF989. This enables global experiments
   without clashing the scarce(2) experimental options available for TCP.

   When the draft status becomes standard (maybe), the client should
   switch to the new option number assigned while the server supports
   both numbers for transistion.

2. The new sysctl tcp_fastopen

3. A place holder init function

Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
12 files changed:
include/linux/tcp.h
include/net/tcp.h
net/ipv4/Makefile
net/ipv4/syncookies.c
net/ipv4/sysctl_net_ipv4.c
net/ipv4/tcp_fastopen.c [new file with mode: 0644]
net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c
net/ipv4/tcp_minisocks.c
net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
net/ipv6/syncookies.c
net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c