Re: [PATCH net-next 0/3] rxrpc: Add bits for kernel services

From: David Miller
Date: Fri Oct 20 2017 - 03:43:16 EST


From: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2017 12:55:50 +0100

>
> Here are some patches that add a few things for kernel services to use:
>
> (1) Allow service upgrade to be requested and allow the resultant actual
> service ID to be obtained.
>
> (2) Allow the RTT time of a call to be obtained.
>
> (3) Allow a kernel service to find out if a call is still alive on a
> server between transmitting a request and getting the reply.
>
> (4) Allow data transmission to ignore signals if transmission progress is
> being made in reasonable time. This is also usable by userspace by
> passing MSG_WAITALL to sendmsg()[*].
>
> [*] I'm not sure this is the right interface for this or whether a sockopt
> should be used instead.
>
> The patches can be found here also:
>
> http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-fs.git/log/?h=rxrpc-next
>
> Tagged thusly:
>
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-fs.git
> rxrpc-next-20171018

Pulled, thanks David.