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

Tue Jun 17 17:33:16 UTC 2014
Akemi Yagi <amyagi at gmail.com>

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