[PATCH net-next 0/3] rxrpc: Add bits for kernel services

David Miller davem at davemloft.net
Fri Oct 20 00:43:08 PDT 2017


From: David Howells <dhowells at redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2017 12:55:50 +0100

> 
> Here are some patches that add a few things for kernel services to use:
> 
>  (1) Allow service upgrade to be requested and allow the resultant actual
>      service ID to be obtained.
> 
>  (2) Allow the RTT time of a call to be obtained.
> 
>  (3) Allow a kernel service to find out if a call is still alive on a
>      server between transmitting a request and getting the reply.
> 
>  (4) Allow data transmission to ignore signals if transmission progress is
>      being made in reasonable time.  This is also usable by userspace by
>      passing MSG_WAITALL to sendmsg()[*].
> 
> [*] I'm not sure this is the right interface for this or whether a sockopt
>     should be used instead.
> 
> The patches can be found here also:
> 
> 	http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-fs.git/log/?h=rxrpc-next
> 
> Tagged thusly:
> 
> 	git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-fs.git
> 	rxrpc-next-20171018

Pulled, thanks David.



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