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authorPaolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>2023-10-23 13:44:34 -0700
committerJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>2023-10-25 12:23:33 -0700
commitd866ae9aaa4325f1097e8b7a50f202348ca89b87 (patch)
treeefc750560962403cdd71f5881bd50a36e130c68c /Documentation/networking
parentaad36cd32982d59470de6365f97f154c5af5d1d2 (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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diff --git a/Documentation/networking/mptcp-sysctl.rst b/Documentation/networking/mptcp-sysctl.rst
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@@ -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.