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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v3 0/2] ipv4: per-datagram IP_TOS and IP_TTL
 via sendmsg()
Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2013 15:22:17 -0700 (PDT)
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From: Francesco Fusco <ffusco@redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2013 15:43:07 +0200

> There is no way to set the IP_TOS field on a per-packet basis in IPv4, while
> IPv6 has such a mechanism. Therefore one has to fall back to the setsockopt()
> in case of IPv4. 
> 
> Using the existing per-socket option is not convenient particularly in the
> situations where multiple threads have to use the same socket data requiring
> per-thread TOS values. In fact this would involve calling setsockopt() before
> sendmsg() every time.

Series applied, thank you.