From: Gilad Ben-Yossef <gilad@codefidence.com>
To: William Allen Simpson <william.allen.simpson@gmail.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, ori@comsleep.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 4/7] Add the no SACK route option feature
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 12:18:30 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AE81A76.5080600@codefidence.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4AE5D089.2050606@gmail.com>
William Allen Simpson wrote:
> Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote:
>> Implement querying and acting upon the no sack bit in the features
>> field.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Gilad Ben-Yossef <gilad@codefidence.com>
>> Sigend-off-by: Ori Finkelman <ori@comsleep.com>
>> Sigend-off-by: Yony Amit <yony@comsleep.com>
>>
> Please explain how this code turns SACK on when it is off globally?
>
> As both Eric and I asked?
It doesn't. Please see my discussion with Eric for the why.
In short, doing so introduce a very subtle change to what the existing
interface do today, which will break
backwards compatibility by changing the meaning of writing zero to the
relevant sysctl. I don't want to be hunt down by angry sys admins :-)
Thanks,
Gilad
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-28 10:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-10-26 8:06 [PATCH v3 0/7] Per route TCP options Gilad Ben-Yossef
2009-10-26 8:06 ` [PATCH v3 1/7] Only parse time stamp TCP option in time wait sock Gilad Ben-Yossef
2009-10-26 16:56 ` William Allen Simpson
2009-10-28 10:14 ` Gilad Ben-Yossef
2009-10-26 8:06 ` [PATCH v3 2/7] Allow tcp_parse_options to consult dst entry Gilad Ben-Yossef
2009-10-26 8:06 ` [PATCH v3 3/7] Add dst_feature to query route entry features Gilad Ben-Yossef
2009-10-26 8:06 ` [PATCH v3 4/7] Add the no SACK route option feature Gilad Ben-Yossef
2009-10-26 16:38 ` William Allen Simpson
2009-10-28 10:18 ` Gilad Ben-Yossef [this message]
2009-10-26 8:06 ` [PATCH v3 5/7] Allow disabling TCP timestamp options per route Gilad Ben-Yossef
2009-10-26 8:06 ` [PATCH v3 6/7] Allow to turn off TCP window scale opt " Gilad Ben-Yossef
2009-10-26 8:06 ` [PATCH v3 7/7] Allow disabling of DSACK TCP option " Gilad Ben-Yossef
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