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authorDavid Ahern <dsa@cumulusnetworks.com>2015-12-16 13:20:44 -0800
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2015-12-18 14:43:38 -0500
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net: Allow accepted sockets to be bound to l3mdev domain
Allow accepted sockets to derive their sk_bound_dev_if setting from the l3mdev domain in which the packets originated. A sysctl setting is added to control the behavior which is similar to sk_mark and sysctl_tcp_fwmark_accept. This effectively allow a process to have a "VRF-global" listen socket, with child sockets bound to the VRF device in which the packet originated. A similar behavior can be achieved using sk_mark, but a solution using marks is incomplete as it does not handle duplicate addresses in different L3 domains/VRFs. Allowing sockets to inherit the sk_bound_dev_if from l3mdev domain provides a complete solution. Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsa@cumulusnetworks.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
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+++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
@@ -335,6 +335,14 @@ tcp_keepalive_intvl - INTEGER
after probes started. Default value: 75sec i.e. connection
will be aborted after ~11 minutes of retries.
+tcp_l3mdev_accept - BOOLEAN
+ Enables child sockets to inherit the L3 master device index.
+ Enabling this option allows a "global" listen socket to work
+ across L3 master domains (e.g., VRFs) with connected sockets
+ derived from the listen socket to be bound to the L3 domain in
+ which the packets originated. Only valid when the kernel was
+ compiled with CONFIG_NET_L3_MASTER_DEV.
+
tcp_low_latency - BOOLEAN
If set, the TCP stack makes decisions that prefer lower
latency as opposed to higher throughput. By default, this