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? Akemi