rds: Enable RDS IPv6 support
This patch enables RDS to use IPv6 addresses. For RDS/TCP, the listener is now an IPv6 endpoint which accepts both IPv4 and IPv6 connection requests. 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_CM_PORT to send the connection set up request. v5: Fixed syntax problem (David Miller). v4: Changed port history comments in rds.h (Sowmini Varadhan). v3: Added support to set up IPv4 connection using mapped address (David Miller). Added support to set up connection between link local and non-link addresses. Various review comments from Santosh Shilimkar and Sowmini Varadhan. v2: Fixed bound and peer address scope mismatched issue. Added back rds_connect() IPv6 changes. Signed-off-by:Ka-Cheong Poon <ka-cheong.poon@oracle.com> Acked-by:
Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@oracle.com> Signed-off-by:
David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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- net/rds/af_rds.c 77 additions, 14 deletionsnet/rds/af_rds.c
- net/rds/bind.c 50 additions, 9 deletionsnet/rds/bind.c
- net/rds/connection.c 39 additions, 15 deletionsnet/rds/connection.c
- net/rds/ib.c 47 additions, 8 deletionsnet/rds/ib.c
- net/rds/ib_cm.c 15 additions, 5 deletionsnet/rds/ib_cm.c
- net/rds/rdma_transport.c 29 additions, 1 deletionnet/rds/rdma_transport.c
- net/rds/rdma_transport.h 5 additions, 0 deletionsnet/rds/rdma_transport.h
- net/rds/rds.h 14 additions, 8 deletionsnet/rds/rds.h
- net/rds/recv.c 1 addition, 1 deletionnet/rds/recv.c
- net/rds/send.c 54 additions, 7 deletionsnet/rds/send.c
- net/rds/tcp.c 34 additions, 20 deletionsnet/rds/tcp.c
- net/rds/tcp.h 1 addition, 1 deletionnet/rds/tcp.h
- net/rds/tcp_connect.c 42 additions, 12 deletionsnet/rds/tcp_connect.c
- net/rds/tcp_listen.c 51 additions, 13 deletionsnet/rds/tcp_listen.c
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