net-tcp: Fast Open client - sendmsg(MSG_FASTOPEN)

sendmsg() (or sendto()) with MSG_FASTOPEN is a combo of connect(2)
and write(2). The application should replace connect() with it to
send data in the opening SYN packet.

For blocking socket, sendmsg() blocks until all the data are buffered
locally and the handshake is completed like connect() call. It
returns similar errno like connect() if the TCP handshake fails.

For non-blocking socket, it returns the number of bytes queued (and
transmitted in the SYN-data packet) if cookie is available. If cookie
is not available, it transmits a data-less SYN packet with Fast Open
cookie request option and returns -EINPROGRESS like connect().

Using MSG_FASTOPEN on connecting or connected socket will result in
simlar errno like repeating connect() calls. Therefore the application
should only use this flag on new sockets.

The buffer size of sendmsg() is independent of the MSS of the connection.

Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/net/tcp.h b/include/net/tcp.h
index 867557b4244a..c0258100d70c 100644
--- a/include/net/tcp.h
+++ b/include/net/tcp.h
@@ -212,6 +212,9 @@ extern void tcp_time_wait(struct sock *sk, int state, int timeo);
 /* TCP initial congestion window as per draft-hkchu-tcpm-initcwnd-01 */
 #define TCP_INIT_CWND		10
 
+/* Bit Flags for sysctl_tcp_fastopen */
+#define	TFO_CLIENT_ENABLE	1
+
 extern struct inet_timewait_death_row tcp_death_row;
 
 /* sysctl variables for tcp */