From cf60af03ca4e71134206809ea892e49b92a88896 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Yuchung Cheng Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2012 06:43:09 +0000 Subject: 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 Acked-by: Eric Dumazet Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt') diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt index e1e021594cf..03964e08818 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt @@ -468,6 +468,17 @@ tcp_syncookies - BOOLEAN SYN flood warnings in logs not being really flooded, your server is seriously misconfigured. +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 + + Default: 0 + 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 -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2