TCP repair feature in the Linux kernel is supposed to help migrating a TCP socket. It's not yet complete and this page lists what is to be done.
TCP repair feature in the Linux kernel is supposed to help migrating a TCP socket. It's not yet complete and this page lists what is to be done.
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; Optimized restore
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: Currently the whole outgoing queue is restored in a "all was sent, waiting for ACK-s" state. After this the data that was really not sent yet will be re-transmitted after a while. This will make the connection work, but will delay it for some time. Need to improve this.
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The nf_conntrack thing in the kernel is about to be live-migrated too.
The nf_conntrack thing in the kernel is about to be live-migrated too.
There's currently an API for getting the conntrack info (/proc file), but no such for restoring it by hands.
There's currently an API for getting the conntrack info (/proc file), but no such for restoring it by hands.
: Currently the whole outgoing queue is restored in a "all was sent, waiting for ACK-s" state. After this the data that was really not sent yet will be re-transmitted after a while. This will make the connection work, but will delay it for some time. Need to improve this.