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author | Jerry Chu <hkchu@google.com> | 2012-08-31 14:29:11 +0200 |
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committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2012-09-01 02:02:18 +0200 |
commit | 1046716368979dee857a2b8a91c4a8833f21b9cb (patch) | |
tree | fdda70278e6fa56c27d242fb1a0ec9b7e3e81d38 /Documentation/networking | |
parent | r8169: add D-Link DGE-560T identifiers. (diff) | |
download | linux-1046716368979dee857a2b8a91c4a8833f21b9cb.tar.xz linux-1046716368979dee857a2b8a91c4a8833f21b9cb.zip |
tcp: TCP Fast Open Server - header & support functions
This patch adds all the necessary data structure and support
functions to implement TFO server side. It also documents a number
of flags for the sysctl_tcp_fastopen knob, and adds a few Linux
extension MIBs.
In addition, it includes the following:
1. a new TCP_FASTOPEN socket option an application must call to
supply a max backlog allowed in order to enable TFO on its listener.
2. A number of key data structures:
"fastopen_rsk" in tcp_sock - for a big socket to access its
request_sock for retransmission and ack processing purpose. It is
non-NULL iff 3WHS not completed.
"fastopenq" in request_sock_queue - points to a per Fast Open
listener data structure "fastopen_queue" to keep track of qlen (# of
outstanding Fast Open requests) and max_qlen, among other things.
"listener" in tcp_request_sock - to point to the original listener
for book-keeping purpose, i.e., to maintain qlen against max_qlen
as part of defense against IP spoofing attack.
3. various data structure and functions, many in tcp_fastopen.c, to
support server side Fast Open cookie operations, including
/proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_fastopen_key to allow manual rekeying.
Signed-off-by: H.K. Jerry Chu <hkchu@google.com>
Cc: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Cc: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/networking')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt | 29 |
1 files changed, 22 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt index d64e53124b8c..c7fc10724948 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt @@ -467,16 +467,31 @@ tcp_syncookies - BOOLEAN tcp_fastopen - INTEGER Enable TCP Fast Open feature (draft-ietf-tcpm-fastopen) to send data in the opening SYN packet. To use this feature, the client application - must not use connect(). Instead, it should use sendmsg() or sendto() - with MSG_FASTOPEN flag which performs a TCP handshake automatically. - - The values (bitmap) are: - 1: Enables sending data in the opening SYN on the client - 5: Enables sending data in the opening SYN on the client regardless - of cookie availability. + must use sendmsg() or sendto() with MSG_FASTOPEN flag rather than + connect() to perform a TCP handshake automatically. + + The values (bitmap) are + 1: Enables sending data in the opening SYN on the client. + 2: Enables TCP Fast Open on the server side, i.e., allowing data in + a SYN packet to be accepted and passed to the application before + 3-way hand shake finishes. + 4: Send data in the opening SYN regardless of cookie availability and + without a cookie option. + 0x100: Accept SYN data w/o validating the cookie. + 0x200: Accept data-in-SYN w/o any cookie option present. + 0x400/0x800: Enable Fast Open on all listeners regardless of the + TCP_FASTOPEN socket option. The two different flags designate two + different ways of setting max_qlen without the TCP_FASTOPEN socket + option. Default: 0 + Note that the client & server side Fast Open flags (1 and 2 + respectively) must be also enabled before the rest of flags can take + effect. + + See include/net/tcp.h and the code for more details. + tcp_syn_retries - INTEGER Number of times initial SYNs for an active TCP connection attempt will be retransmitted. Should not be higher than 255. Default value |