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    sctp: add support for Primary Path Switchover · 34515e94
    Xin Long authored
    
    
    This is a new feature defined in section 5 of rfc7829: "Primary Path
    Switchover". By introducing a new tunable parameter:
    
      Primary.Switchover.Max.Retrans (PSMR)
    
    The primary path will be changed to another active path when the path
    error counter on the old primary path exceeds PSMR, so that "the SCTP
    sender is allowed to continue data transmission on a new working path
    even when the old primary destination address becomes active again".
    
    This patch is to add this tunable parameter, 'ps_retrans' per netns,
    sock, asoc and transport. It also allows a user to change ps_retrans
    per netns by sysctl, and ps_retrans per sock/asoc/transport will be
    initialized with it.
    
    The check will be done in sctp_do_8_2_transport_strike() when this
    feature is enabled.
    
    Note this feature is disabled by initializing 'ps_retrans' per netns
    as 0xffff by default, and its value can't be less than 'pf_retrans'
    when changing by sysctl.
    
    v3->v4:
      - add define SCTP_PS_RETRANS_MAX 0xffff, and use it on extra2 of
        sysctl 'ps_retrans'.
      - add a new entry for ps_retrans on ip-sysctl.txt.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarXin Long <lucien.xin@gmail.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarNeil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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