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authorWei Wang <weiwan@google.com>2017-01-23 10:59:22 -0800
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2017-01-25 14:04:38 -0500
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net/tcp-fastopen: Add new API support
This patch adds a new socket option, TCP_FASTOPEN_CONNECT, as an alternative way to perform Fast Open on the active side (client). Prior to this patch, a client needs to replace the connect() call with sendto(MSG_FASTOPEN). This can be cumbersome for applications who want to use Fast Open: these socket operations are often done in lower layer libraries used by many other applications. Changing these libraries and/or the socket call sequences are not trivial. A more convenient approach is to perform Fast Open by simply enabling a socket option when the socket is created w/o changing other socket calls sequence: s = socket() create a new socket setsockopt(s, IPPROTO_TCP, TCP_FASTOPEN_CONNECT …); newly introduced sockopt If set, new functionality described below will be used. Return ENOTSUPP if TFO is not supported or not enabled in the kernel. connect() With cookie present, return 0 immediately. With no cookie, initiate 3WHS with TFO cookie-request option and return -1 with errno = EINPROGRESS. write()/sendmsg() With cookie present, send out SYN with data and return the number of bytes buffered. With no cookie, and 3WHS not yet completed, return -1 with errno = EINPROGRESS. No MSG_FASTOPEN flag is needed. read() Return -1 with errno = EWOULDBLOCK/EAGAIN if connect() is called but write() is not called yet. Return -1 with errno = EWOULDBLOCK/EAGAIN if connection is established but no msg is received yet. Return number of bytes read if socket is established and there is msg received. The new API simplifies life for applications that always perform a write() immediately after a successful connect(). Such applications can now take advantage of Fast Open by merely making one new setsockopt() call at the time of creating the socket. Nothing else about the application's socket call sequence needs to change. Signed-off-by: Wei Wang <weiwan@google.com> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Acked-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/tcp.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/tcp.h3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/tcp.h b/include/linux/tcp.h
index 5371b3d70cfe..f88f4649ba6f 100644
--- a/include/linux/tcp.h
+++ b/include/linux/tcp.h
@@ -222,7 +222,8 @@ struct tcp_sock {
u32 chrono_stat[3]; /* Time in jiffies for chrono_stat stats */
u8 chrono_type:2, /* current chronograph type */
rate_app_limited:1, /* rate_{delivered,interval_us} limited? */
- unused:5;
+ fastopen_connect:1, /* FASTOPEN_CONNECT sockopt */
+ unused:4;
u8 nonagle : 4,/* Disable Nagle algorithm? */
thin_lto : 1,/* Use linear timeouts for thin streams */
unused1 : 1,