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From: "Matthieu Baerts (NGI0)" <matttbe@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH net-next 0/4] mptcp: add TCP_NOTSENT_LOWAT sockopt support
Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2024 18:43:43 +0100
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To: mptcp@lists.linux.dev, Mat Martineau <martineau@kernel.org>, 
 Geliang Tang <geliang@kernel.org>, "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>, 
 Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, 
 Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, 
 "Matthieu Baerts (NGI0)" <matttbe@kernel.org>

Patch 3 does the magic of adding TCP_NOTSENT_LOWAT support, all the
other ones are minor cleanup seen along when working on the new feature.

Note that this feature relies on the existing accounting for snd_nxt.
Such accounting is not 110% accurate as it tracks the most recent
sequence number queued to any subflow, and not the actual sequence
number sent on the wire. Paolo experimented a lot, trying to implement
the latter, and in the end it proved to be both "too complex" and "not
necessary".

The complexity raises from the need for additional lock and a lot of
refactoring to introduce such protections without adding significant
overhead. Additionally, snd_nxt is currently used and exposed with the
current semantic by the internal packet scheduling. Introducing a
different tracking will still require us to keep the old one.

More interestingly, a more accurate tracking could be not strictly
necessary: as the MPTCP socket enqueues data to the subflows only up to
the available send window, any enqueue data is sent on the wire
instantly, without any blocking operation short or a drop in the tx path
at the nft or TC layer.

Signed-off-by: Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) <matttbe@kernel.org>
---
Paolo Abeni (4):
      mptcp: cleanup writer wake-up
      mptcp: avoid some duplicate code in socket option handling
      mptcp: implement TCP_NOTSENT_LOWAT support
      mptcp: cleanup SOL_TCP handling

 net/mptcp/protocol.c | 54 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------
 net/mptcp/protocol.h | 42 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------
 net/mptcp/sockopt.c  | 71 +++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------------------
 3 files changed, 101 insertions(+), 66 deletions(-)
---
base-commit: e960825709330cb199d209740326cec37e8c419d
change-id: 20240301-upstream-net-next-20240301-mptcp-tcp_notsent_lowat-770cab93d253

Best regards,
-- 
Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) <matttbe@kernel.org>