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    net: Facility to report route quality of connected sockets · a87cb3e4
    Tom Herbert authored
    This patch add the SO_CNX_ADVICE socket option (setsockopt only). The
    purpose is to allow an application to give feedback to the kernel about
    the quality of the network path for a connected socket. The value
    argument indicates the type of quality report. For this initial patch
    the only supported advice is a value of 1 which indicates "bad path,
    please reroute"-- the action taken by the kernel is to call
    dst_negative_advice which will attempt to choose a different ECMP route,
    reset the TX hash for flow label and UDP source port in encapsulation,
    etc.
    
    This facility should be useful for connected UDP sockets where only the
    application can provide any feedback about path quality. It could also
    be useful for TCP applications that have additional knowledge about the
    path outside of the normal TCP control loop.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarTom Herbert <tom@herbertland.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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