[rds-devel] [PATCH 0/3] net/rds: SOL_RDS socket option to explicitly select transport

[David Miller]

From: Sowmini Varadhan <sowmini.varadhan at oracle.com>
Date: Fri, 29 May 2015 17:28:06 -0400

> Today the underlying transport (TCP or IB) for a PF_RDS socket is
> implicitly selected based on the local address used to bind(2) the
> PF_RDS socket. This results in some non-deterministic behavior when
> there are un-numbered and IPoIB interfaces sharing the same IP address.
> It also places the constraint that the IB interface must have an IP
> address (and thus, IPoIB) configured on it.
> 
> The non-determinism may be avoided by providing the user-space application
> a socket option that allows it to explicitly select the transport
> prior to bind(2).
> 
> Patch 1 of this series provides the constant definitions needed by
> the application via <linux/rds.h>.
> 
> Patch 2 provides the setsockopt support, and Patch 3 provides the
> getsockopt support.

Seems reasonable, series applied to net-next, thanks.