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Commit 60e2a778 authored by Ursula Braun's avatar Ursula Braun Committed by David S. Miller
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tcp: TCP experimental option for SMC



The SMC protocol [1] relies on the use of a new TCP experimental
option [2, 3]. With this option, SMC capabilities are exchanged
between peers during the TCP three way handshake. This patch adds
support for this experimental option to TCP.

References:
[1] SMC-R Informational RFC: http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7609
[2] Shared Use of TCP Experimental Options RFC 6994:
    https://tools.ietf.org/rfc/rfc6994.txt
[3] IANA ExID SMCR:
http://www.iana.org/assignments/tcp-parameters/tcp-parameters.xhtml#tcp-exids

Signed-off-by: default avatarUrsula Braun <ubraun@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent 145686ba
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