Re: [PATCH 0/3] net/rds: SOL_RDS socket option to explicitly select transport
From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Date: 2015-06-01 04:47:49
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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Date: 2015-06-01 04:47:49
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From: Sowmini Varadhan <redacted> Date: Fri, 29 May 2015 17:28:06 -0400
Today the underlying transport (TCP or IB) for a PF_RDS socket is implicitly selected based on the local address used to bind(2) the PF_RDS socket. This results in some non-deterministic behavior when there are un-numbered and IPoIB interfaces sharing the same IP address. It also places the constraint that the IB interface must have an IP address (and thus, IPoIB) configured on it. The non-determinism may be avoided by providing the user-space application a socket option that allows it to explicitly select the transport prior to bind(2). Patch 1 of this series provides the constant definitions needed by the application via <linux/rds.h>. Patch 2 provides the setsockopt support, and Patch 3 provides the getsockopt support.
Seems reasonable, series applied to net-next, thanks.