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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: hkchu@google.com
Cc: eric.dumazet@gmail.com, hannemann@nets.rwth-aachen.de,
	hagen@jauu.net, lars.eggert@nokia.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] TCP_USER_TIMEOUT: a new socket option to specify max timeout before a TCP connection is aborted
Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2010 16:13:20 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100828.161320.245404727.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1282972408-19164-1-git-send-email-hkchu@google.com>

From: "H.K. Jerry Chu" <hkchu@google.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2010 22:13:28 -0700

> @@ -556,7 +559,14 @@ static void tcp_keepalive_timer (unsigned long data)
>  	elapsed = keepalive_time_elapsed(tp);
>  
>  	if (elapsed >= keepalive_time_when(tp)) {
> -		if (icsk->icsk_probes_out >= keepalive_probes(tp)) {
> +		/* If the TCP_USER_TIMEOUT option is enabled, use that
> +		 * to determine when to timeout instead.
> +		 */
> +		if ((icsk->icsk_user_timeout != 0 &&
> +		    elapsed >= icsk->icsk_user_timeout &&
> +		    icsk->icsk_probes_out > 0) ||
> +		    (icsk->icsk_user_timeout == 0 &&
> +		    icsk->icsk_probes_out >= keepalive_probes(tp))) {
>  			tcp_send_active_reset(sk, GFP_ATOMIC);
>  			tcp_write_err(sk);
>  			goto out;

I think if we want to add a socket option which overrides, it makes
more sense to provide overrides in the same units.  This
transformation here is transforming a check against apples into a
check against oranges.

But if that's how this thing is specified, so be it... I guess. :-/


  reply	other threads:[~2010-08-28 23:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-28  5:13 [PATCH] TCP_USER_TIMEOUT: a new socket option to specify max timeout before a TCP connection is aborted H.K. Jerry Chu
2010-08-28 23:13 ` David Miller [this message]
2010-08-30  0:23   ` Jerry Chu
2010-08-30  4:19     ` David Miller
2010-08-30  6:54       ` Jerry Chu
2010-08-30 20:25         ` David Miller
2010-08-30 20:30           ` Eric Dumazet
2010-08-30 20:47             ` David Miller
2010-08-30 22:41             ` Jerry Chu

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