[CentOS-devel] Multipath-TCP in the centosplus kernel?

[Karanbir Singh]

On 06/17/2014 06:33 PM, Akemi Yagi wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 2:41 AM, Guillaume Derval
> <guillaume.derval at student.uclouvain.be> wrote:
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>>> On 06/16/2014 01:31 AM, Akemi Yagi wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Adding patches is absolutely one of the things that the plus kernel
>>>> offers. In this case, as Guillaume stated, the modifications are quite
>>>> extensive. Without understanding all the details of the patches, I
>>>> would like to ask if there are any consequences that might
>>>> "negatively" affect the existing plus kernel users.
>>
>> As I am not a developer of Multipath-TCP, I asked the main developer (Christoph Paasch) about that.
>> Here is what he answered (translated from french):
>>> I see no « negative consequences » in the inclusion of MPTCP in the centosplus kernel.
>>> Everything should work normally (and if its not, it’s a bug we can fix).
>>> The impact on the performance of plain TCP should be very low.
> 
> So, we can assume adding the proposed patches should be transparent to
> the plus kernel users, I suppose. Is this the case?
> 
> KB? To go ahead with this or not? A separate specific kernel?
> 

either way you decide, i can help facilitate it either way

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