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Ka-Cheong Poon says: ==================== rds: IPv6 support This patch set adds IPv6 support to the kernel RDS and related modules. Existing RDS apps using IPv4 address continue to run without any problem. New RDS apps which want to use IPv6 address can do so by passing the address in struct sockaddr_in6 to bind(), connect() or sendmsg(). And those apps also need to use the new IPv6 equivalents of some of the existing socket options as the existing options use a 32 bit integer to store IP address. All RDS code now use struct in6_addr to store IP address. IPv4 address is stored as an IPv4 mapped address. Header file changes There are many data structures (RDS socket options) used by RDS apps which use a 32 bit integer to store IP address. To support IPv6, struct in6_addr needs to be used. To ensure backward compatibility, a new data structure is introduced for each of those data structures which use a 32 bit integer to represent an IP address. And new socket options are introduced to use those new structures. This means that existing apps should work without a problem with the new RDS module. For apps which want to use IPv6, those new data structures and socket options can be used. IPv4 mapped address is used to represent IPv4 address in the new data structures. Internally, all RDS data structures which contain an IP address are changed to use struct in6_addr to store the address. IPv4 address is stored as an IPv4 mapped address. All the functions which take an IP address as argument are also changed to use struct in6_addr. RDS/RDMA/IB uses a private data (struct rds_ib_connect_private) exchange between endpoints at RDS connection establishment time to support RDMA. This private data exchange uses a 32 bit integer to represent an IP address. This needs to be changed in order to support IPv6. A new private data struct rds6_ib_connect_private is introduced to handle this. To ensure backward compatibility, an IPv6 capable RDS stack uses another RDMA listener port (RDS_CM_PORT) to accept IPv6 connection. And it continues to use the original RDS_PORT for IPv4 RDS connections. When it needs to communicate with an IPv6 peer, it uses the RDS_TCP_PORT to send the connection set up request. RDS/TCP changes TCP related code is changed to support IPv6. Note that only an IPv6 TCP listener on port RDS_TCP_PORT is created as it can accept both IPv4 and IPv6 connection requests. IB/RDMA changes The initial private data exchange between IB endpoints using RDMA is changed to support IPv6 address instead, if the peer address is IPv6. To ensure backward compatibility, annother RDMA listener port (RDS_CM_PORT) is used to accept IPv6 connection. An IPv6 capable RDS module continues to use the original RDS_PORT for IPv4 RDS connections. When it needs to communicate with an IPv6 peer, it uses the RDS_CM_PORT to send the connection set up request. ==================== Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> |
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Linux kernel
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In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
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See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
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the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.