Hangout 11 Jan 2018

jtl@ will be pushing Black Box into HEAD in the next three weeks in advance of Rack and BBR arriving

rrs@ will push Rack into the HEAD of the tree following the work on Black Box

We will then update the default stack to a new name, not default, and then update the default shipping stack.

The risk of going to something like Rack is the overhead from the pacer so that will be off by default in HEAD.

bz@ asks that the cache line optimizations go in as separate commits

pkelsy@ will split up the review of Fast Open on the client side

tuexen@ says he has an issue with the patches and packetdrill tests and will pass this information along to pkelsey@

a discussion arises on whether or not to have the sysctl for controlling fast open. The RFC requires this option.

Until 12.0 the Fast Open code will under a kernel config option