Re: [PATCH net-next 0/8] rxrpc: Rework endpoint record handling

From: David Miller
Date: Thu Jun 16 2016 - 01:25:49 EST


From: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2016 17:41:38 +0100

> Here's the next part of the AF_RXRPC rewrite. In this set I rework
> endpoint record handling. There are two types of endpoint record, local
> and peer. The local endpoint record is used as an anchor for the transport
> socket that AF_RXRPC uses (at the moment a UDP socket). Local endpoints
> can be shared between AF_RXRPC sockets under certain restricted
> circumstances.
>
> The peer endpoint is a record of the remote end. It is (or will be) used
> to keep track MTU and RTT values and, with these changes, is used to find
> the call(s) to abort when a network error occurs.
>
> The following significant changes are made:
...
> The patches can be found here also:
>
> http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-fs.git/log/?h=rxrpc-rewrite
>
> Tagged thusly:
>
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-fs.git
> rxrpc-rewrite-20160615

Pulled, thanks David.