Hello,
On 25/01/18 - 14:46:00, Mat Martineau wrote:
On Thu, 25 Jan 2018, Christoph Paasch wrote:
> On 25/01/18 - 11:41:53, Mat Martineau wrote:
> > Thanks again for posting the RFC patch set to netdev in December. In case
> > folks on this mailing list missed it, here's the link:
> >
> >
https://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg472988.html
> >
> > Other than the license information change, are you considering any other
> > modifications?
>
> no, not really. I was planning to get some performance numbers. But couldn't
> get to it because of other unrelated urgencies that took my time.
>
> > I suggest modifying the last section of the cover letter (the part starting
> > with "One point of discussion...") for the next round:
> >
> > """
> > There is still work to be done to more efficiently check for extra TCP
> > options in performance-sensitive code paths. A rate-limited static key would
> > nearly eliminate overhead if no extra TCP options are in use system-wide, or
> > a flag in a likely-hot cache line could work well.
> >
> > For now we opted for a simple if (unlikely(!hlist_empty(...)) check.
> > """
>
> That sounds good!
>
>
> What do you suggest - should we simply resubmit the RFCs as v2 with the
> minor changes? (the timing of the first submission was probably fairly bad
> as most people were out on Christmas vacation)
>
Yes, v2 with the minor changes is the way to go. The timing should be better
- Eric has been reviewing patches and recent RFCs in the archives seem to
have a few replies.
Indeed! I wanted to get to this here right after the vacation, but things
have been crazy here in the office.
I looked around the git history to see if anyone would obviously be
interested from a TCP md5sig perspective. The only recent contributor I
found (besides Eric) was Ivan Delalande, see commit c03fa9bcac. Maybe he
would be good for the cc list.
Good point, I will add him to the CC-list.
Christoph