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

Karanbir Singh

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Mon Jun 16 00:35:50 UTC 2014


On 06/16/2014 01:31 AM, Akemi Yagi wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 15, 2014 at 4:17 PM, Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at karan.org> wrote:
>> On 06/15/2014 12:54 PM, Guillaume Derval wrote:
>>> Hello everyone,
>>>
>>> I am thinking about building custom kernels for CentOS-7 with a support
>>> for Multipath-TCP (http://multipath-tcp.org/), and I am wondering if a
>>> such heavy modification should have its place in the centosplus kernel?
>>
>> sure, that is the sort of thing that works in the plus kernel best. Akemi ?
> 
> 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.

its certainly a role that is very interesting - and maybe a
middle-initial-ground might be to carry a multipath-tcp specific kernel,
just to bootstrap things off ?


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