sctp: Bring SCTP_DELAYED_ACK socket option into API compliance
Brings delayed_ack socket option set/get into line with the latest ietf
socket extensions API draft, while maintaining backwards compatibility.
Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <yjwei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
diff --git a/include/net/sctp/user.h b/include/net/sctp/user.h
index 9619b9d..31371d2 100644
--- a/include/net/sctp/user.h
+++ b/include/net/sctp/user.h
@@ -93,8 +93,9 @@
#define SCTP_STATUS SCTP_STATUS
SCTP_GET_PEER_ADDR_INFO,
#define SCTP_GET_PEER_ADDR_INFO SCTP_GET_PEER_ADDR_INFO
- SCTP_DELAYED_ACK_TIME,
-#define SCTP_DELAYED_ACK_TIME SCTP_DELAYED_ACK_TIME
+ SCTP_DELAYED_ACK,
+#define SCTP_DELAYED_ACK_TIME SCTP_DELAYED_ACK
+#define SCTP_DELAYED_ACK SCTP_DELAYED_ACK
SCTP_CONTEXT, /* Receive Context */
#define SCTP_CONTEXT SCTP_CONTEXT
SCTP_FRAGMENT_INTERLEAVE,
@@ -618,13 +619,26 @@
};
-/* 7.1.23. Delayed Ack Timer (SCTP_DELAYED_ACK_TIME)
+/*
+ * 7.1.23. Get or set delayed ack timer (SCTP_DELAYED_SACK)
*
- * This options will get or set the delayed ack timer. The time is set
- * in milliseconds. If the assoc_id is 0, then this sets or gets the
- * endpoints default delayed ack timer value. If the assoc_id field is
- * non-zero, then the set or get effects the specified association.
+ * This option will effect the way delayed acks are performed. This
+ * option allows you to get or set the delayed ack time, in
+ * milliseconds. It also allows changing the delayed ack frequency.
+ * Changing the frequency to 1 disables the delayed sack algorithm. If
+ * the assoc_id is 0, then this sets or gets the endpoints default
+ * values. If the assoc_id field is non-zero, then the set or get
+ * effects the specified association for the one to many model (the
+ * assoc_id field is ignored by the one to one model). Note that if
+ * sack_delay or sack_freq are 0 when setting this option, then the
+ * current values will remain unchanged.
*/
+struct sctp_sack_info {
+ sctp_assoc_t sack_assoc_id;
+ uint32_t sack_delay;
+ uint32_t sack_freq;
+};
+
struct sctp_assoc_value {
sctp_assoc_t assoc_id;
uint32_t assoc_value;