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D. Wythe
d25a92ccae net/smc: Introduce IPPROTO_SMC
This patch allows to create smc socket via AF_INET,
similar to the following code,

/* create v4 smc sock */
v4 = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, IPPROTO_SMC);

/* create v6 smc sock */
v6 = socket(AF_INET6, SOCK_STREAM, IPPROTO_SMC);

There are several reasons why we believe it is appropriate here:

1. For smc sockets, it actually use IPv4 (AF-INET) or IPv6 (AF-INET6)
address. There is no AF_SMC address at all.

2. Create smc socket in the AF_INET(6) path, which allows us to reuse
the infrastructure of AF_INET(6) path, such as common ebpf hooks.
Otherwise, smc have to implement it again in AF_SMC path.

Signed-off-by: D. Wythe <alibuda@linux.alibaba.com>
Reviewed-by: Wenjia Zhang <wenjia@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Dust Li <dust.li@linux.alibaba.com>
Tested-by: Niklas Schnelle <schnelle@linux.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Wenjia Zhang <wenjia@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2024-06-17 13:14:09 +01:00