LWN.net Logo

TCP Fast Open: expediting web services

TCP Fast Open: expediting web services
[Kernel] Posted Aug 1, 2012 21:07 UTC (Wed) by mkerrisk

The upcoming 3.6 kernel will contain client-side support for the TCP "fast open" protocol extension. This work, contributed by Google, was first covered in LWN almost one year ago; now we have a detailed overview of what fast open is, why it matters, and how it works.

Click below (subscribers only) for the full article by Michael Kerrisk.

Full Story (comments: 49)

Copyright © 2012, Eklektix, Inc.
Comments and public postings are copyrighted by their creators.
Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds