Re: [PATCH net-next 00/11] mptcp: PM listener events + selftests cleanup

From: Matthieu Baerts
Date: Fri Dec 02 2022 - 05:33:53 EST


Hi Jakub,

On 02/12/2022 05:09, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Nov 2022 15:06:22 +0100 Matthieu Baerts wrote:
>> Thanks to the patch 6/11, the MPTCP path manager now sends Netlink events when
>> MPTCP listening sockets are created and closed. The reason why it is needed is
>> explained in the linked ticket [1]:
>>
>> MPTCP for Linux, when not using the in-kernel PM, depends on the userspace PM
>> to create extra listening sockets before announcing addresses and ports. Let's
>> call these "PM listeners".
>>
>> With the existing MPTCP netlink events, a userspace PM can create PM listeners
>> at startup time, or in response to an incoming connection. Creating sockets in
>> response to connections is not optimal: ADD_ADDRs can't be sent until the
>> sockets are created and listen()ed, and if all connections are closed then it
>> may not be clear to the userspace PM daemon that PM listener sockets should be
>> cleaned up.
>>
>> Hence this feature request: to add MPTCP netlink events for listening socket
>> close & create, so PM listening sockets can be managed based on application
>> activity.
>>
>> [1] https://github.com/multipath-tcp/mptcp_net-next/issues/313
>>
>> Selftests for these new Netlink events have been added in patches 9,11/11.
>>
>> The remaining patches introduce different cleanups and small improvements in
>> MPTCP selftests to ease the maintenance and the addition of new tests.
>
> Also could you warp you cover letters at 72 characters?
> I need to reflow them before I can read them :(

Oops, my bad, I'm sorry for that! Thank you for having reported the issue!

I didn't notice I didn't set the limit to 72 chars for the
"gitsendemail" file type like I did for "gitcommit" in my current vim
config. Done now, next cover-letter should be properly formatted! :)

Cheers,
Matt
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