Re: [PATCH net-next 1/1] net/smc: add SMC rendezvous protocol

2017-10-12 Thread David Miller
From: Florian Westphal Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2017 13:14:29 +0200 > Ursula Braun wrote: >> On 10/11/2017 11:06 PM, David Miller wrote: >> > From: Ursula Braun >> > Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2017 16:14:19 +0200 >> > >> >> The goal of this patch is to leave common TCP code unmodified. Thus, >> >> it uses net

Re: [PATCH net-next 1/1] net/smc: add SMC rendezvous protocol

2017-10-12 Thread Florian Westphal
Ursula Braun wrote: > On 10/11/2017 11:06 PM, David Miller wrote: > > From: Ursula Braun > > Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2017 16:14:19 +0200 > > > >> The goal of this patch is to leave common TCP code unmodified. Thus, > >> it uses netfilter hooks to intercept TCP SYN and SYN/ACK > >> packets. For outgoin

Re: [PATCH net-next 1/1] net/smc: add SMC rendezvous protocol

2017-10-12 Thread Ursula Braun
On 10/11/2017 11:06 PM, David Miller wrote: > From: Ursula Braun > Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2017 16:14:19 +0200 > >> The goal of this patch is to leave common TCP code unmodified. Thus, >> it uses netfilter hooks to intercept TCP SYN and SYN/ACK >> packets. For outgoing packets originating from SMC soc

Re: [PATCH net-next 1/1] net/smc: add SMC rendezvous protocol

2017-10-11 Thread David Miller
From: Ursula Braun Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2017 16:14:19 +0200 > The goal of this patch is to leave common TCP code unmodified. Thus, > it uses netfilter hooks to intercept TCP SYN and SYN/ACK > packets. For outgoing packets originating from SMC sockets, the > experimental option is added. For inbound

[PATCH net-next 1/1] net/smc: add SMC rendezvous protocol

2017-10-10 Thread Ursula Braun
From: Ursula Braun The SMC protocol [1] uses a rendezvous protocol to negotiate SMC capability between peers. The current Linux implementation does not use this rendezvous protocol and, thus, is not compliant to RFC7609 and incompatible with other SMC implementations like in zOS. This patch adds