linux/include
David Howells 415f44e432 rxrpc: Add keepalive for a call
We need to transmit a packet every so often to act as a keepalive for the
peer (which has a timeout from the last time it received a packet) and also
to prevent any intervening firewalls from closing the route.

Do this by resetting a timer every time we transmit a packet.  If the timer
ever expires, we transmit a PING ACK packet and thereby also elicit a PING
RESPONSE ACK from the other side - which prevents our last-rx timeout from
expiring.

The timer is set to 1/6 of the last-rx timeout so that we can detect the
other side going away if it misses 6 replies in a row.

This is particularly necessary for servers where the processing of the
service function may take a significant amount of time.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2017-11-24 10:18:42 +00:00
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acpi TTY/Serial patches for 4.15-rc1 2017-11-13 21:05:31 -08:00
asm-generic include/asm-generic/topology.h: remove unused parent_node() macro 2017-11-17 16:10:05 -08:00
clocksource arm64 updates for 4.15 2017-11-15 10:56:56 -08:00
crypto Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2017-11-14 10:52:09 -08:00
drm fixes/cleanups for rc1, non-desktop flags for VR 2017-11-23 21:04:56 -10:00
dt-bindings fixes/cleanups for rc1, non-desktop flags for VR 2017-11-23 21:04:56 -10:00
keys
kvm KVM: arm/arm64: Rework kvm_timer_should_fire 2017-11-06 16:23:17 +01:00
lib
linux Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2017-11-23 21:18:46 -10:00
math-emu
media media updates for v4.15-rc1 2017-11-15 20:30:12 -08:00
memory
misc
net net: accept UFO datagrams from tuntap and packet 2017-11-24 01:37:35 +09:00
pcmcia
ras
rdma Updates for 4.15 kernel merge window 2017-11-15 14:54:53 -08:00
scsi scsi: Use 'blist_flags_t' for scsi_devinfo flags 2017-11-16 17:43:27 -05:00
soc We have two changes to the core framework this time around. The first being a 2017-11-17 20:04:24 -08:00
sound ALSA: hda - Fix yet remaining issue with vmaster 0dB initialization 2017-11-22 12:34:56 +01:00
target A couple of configfs cleanups: 2017-11-14 14:44:04 -08:00
trace rxrpc: Add keepalive for a call 2017-11-24 10:18:42 +00:00
uapi rxrpc: Fix call timeouts 2017-11-24 10:18:41 +00:00
video fbdev changes for v4.15: 2017-11-20 21:50:24 -10:00
xen xen: features and fixes for v4.15-rc1 2017-11-16 13:06:27 -08:00