Re: Adding SCTP_SENDALL support

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On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 01:22:56AM +0800, Xin Long wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 20, 2016 at 9:16 PM, Shea Levy <shea@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'd like to add SCTP_SENDALL support to the kernel and lksctp-tools to
> > port a FreeBSD project to Linux. Does anyone have pointers on where to
> > get started or who to talk to about this? Is there any reason it's not
> > already implemented besides just no one doing the work yet?
> SCTP_SENDALL is also an api from rfc6458, I think it's just not yet
> done in Linux.
> 
+1, its just not had a motivated developer to do the work.  Truthfully you can
emulate it pretty easily in an application with a for loop, so its likely not
been high priority.

> I guess you have to do some adjustments in sctp_sendmsg, considering
> there is no sctp_iterator_work unlike in BSD.
> 
Yeah, but not much, just issue a PRIMITIVE_SEND on each association if the
SENDALL flag is set I would think

> I don't think we need to add some things in lkscp-tools to support this,
> as long as we update uapi sctp.h in our system.
> 
Agreed, if you add the flag to the proper uapi header, that should be it.

Neil
> 
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