From 566178f853c1aa57be9c16007c7cca07df5d51b6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Zhu Yanjun Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2015 13:55:04 +0800 Subject: net: sctp: dynamically enable or disable pf state As we all know, the value of pf_retrans >= max_retrans_path can disable pf state. The variables of pf_retrans and max_retrans_path can be changed by the userspace application. Sometimes the user expects to disable pf state while the 2 variables are changed to enable pf state. So it is necessary to introduce a new variable to disable pf state. According to the suggestions from Vlad Yasevich, extra1 and extra2 are removed. The initialization of pf_enable is added. Acked-by: Vlad Yasevich Signed-off-by: Zhu Yanjun Acked-by: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'Documentation/networking') diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt index 2ea4c45cf1c8..5de632ed0ec0 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt @@ -1723,6 +1723,25 @@ addip_enable - BOOLEAN Default: 0 +pf_enable - INTEGER + Enable or disable pf (pf is short for potentially failed) state. A value + of pf_retrans > path_max_retrans also disables pf state. That is, one of + both pf_enable and pf_retrans > path_max_retrans can disable pf state. + Since pf_retrans and path_max_retrans can be changed by userspace + application, sometimes user expects to disable pf state by the value of + pf_retrans > path_max_retrans, but occasionally the value of pf_retrans + or path_max_retrans is changed by the user application, this pf state is + enabled. As such, it is necessary to add this to dynamically enable + and disable pf state. See: + https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-tsvwg-sctp-failover for + details. + + 1: Enable pf. + + 0: Disable pf. + + Default: 1 + addip_noauth_enable - BOOLEAN Dynamic Address Reconfiguration (ADD-IP) requires the use of authentication to protect the operations of adding or removing new @@ -1799,7 +1818,9 @@ pf_retrans - INTEGER having to reduce path_max_retrans to a very low value. See: http://www.ietf.org/id/draft-nishida-tsvwg-sctp-failover-05.txt for details. Note also that a value of pf_retrans > path_max_retrans - disables this feature + disables this feature. Since both pf_retrans and path_max_retrans can + be changed by userspace application, a variable pf_enable is used to + disable pf state. Default: 0 -- cgit v1.2.3