Re: [PATCH net-next] tcp: add ability to set a timestamp offset

From: Rick Jones
Date: Tue Jan 22 2013 - 16:16:23 EST


On 01/22/2013 12:52 PM, Andrey Vagin wrote:
If a TCP socket will get live-migrated from one box to another the
timestamps (which are typically ON) will get screwed up -- the new
kernel will generate TS values that has nothing to do with what they
were on dump. The solution is to yet again fix the kernel and put a
"timestamp offset" on a socket.

Is there a chance a connection can be moved more than once within the "lifetime" of a given timestamp value?

rick jones

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