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| author | Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com> | 2023-10-23 13:44:34 -0700 |
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| committer | Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> | 2023-10-25 12:23:33 -0700 |
| commit | d866ae9aaa4325f1097e8b7a50f202348ca89b87 (patch) | |
| tree | efc750560962403cdd71f5881bd50a36e130c68c /Documentation/networking/mptcp-sysctl.rst | |
| parent | aad36cd32982d59470de6365f97f154c5af5d1d2 (diff) | |
mptcp: add a new sysctl for make after break timeout
The MPTCP protocol allows sockets with no alive subflows to stay
in ESTABLISHED status for and user-defined timeout, to allow for
later subflows creation.
Currently such timeout is constant - TCP_TIMEWAIT_LEN. Let the
user-space configure them via a newly added sysctl, to better cope
with busy servers and simplify (make them faster) the relevant
pktdrill tests.
Note that the new know does not apply to orphaned MPTCP socket
waiting for the data_fin handshake completion: they always wait
TCP_TIMEWAIT_LEN.
Reviewed-by: Mat Martineau <martineau@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mat Martineau <martineau@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231023-send-net-next-20231023-2-v1-1-9dc60939d371@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/mptcp-sysctl.rst b/Documentation/networking/mptcp-sysctl.rst index 15f1919d640c..69975ce25a02 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/mptcp-sysctl.rst +++ b/Documentation/networking/mptcp-sysctl.rst @@ -25,6 +25,17 @@ add_addr_timeout - INTEGER (seconds) Default: 120 +close_timeout - INTEGER (seconds) + Set the make-after-break timeout: in absence of any close or + shutdown syscall, MPTCP sockets will maintain the status + unchanged for such time, after the last subflow removal, before + moving to TCP_CLOSE. + + The default value matches TCP_TIMEWAIT_LEN. This is a per-namespace + sysctl. + + Default: 60 + checksum_enabled - BOOLEAN Control whether DSS checksum can be enabled. |