Re: [PATCH net-next 0/3] add MP_PRIO, MP_FAIL and MP_FASTCLOSE suboptions handling

From: Matthieu Baerts
Date: Tue Jun 16 2020 - 11:19:01 EST


Hi Geliang

On 16/06/2020 08:47, Geliang Tang wrote:
Add handling for sending and receiving the MP_PRIO, MP_FAIL, and
MP_FASTCLOSE suboptions.

Thank you for the patches!

Unfortunately, I don't think it would be wise to accept them now: for the moment, these suboptions are ignored at the reception. If we accept them and change some variables like you did, we would need to make sure the kernel is still acting correctly. In other words, we would need tests:
* For MP_PRIO, there are still quite some works to do regarding the scheduling of the packets between the different MPTCP subflows to do before supporting this.
* For MP_FAIL, we should forward the info to the path manager.
* For MP_FASTCLOSE, we should close connections and ACK this.

Also, net-next is closed for the moment: http://vger.kernel.org/~davem/net-next.html

I would suggest you to discuss about that on MPTCP mailing list. We also have meetings every Thursday. New devs are always welcome to contribute to new features and bug-fixes!

Cheers,
Matt
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