On 03/31/2018 10:43 PM, Maciej Żenczykowski wrote:
> From: Luigi Rizzo <lri...@google.com>
> 
> We have all sorts of different ways to fetch pre-UDP payload metadata:
>   IP_RECVTOS
>   IP_RECVTTL
>   IP_RECVOPTS
>   IP_RETOPTS
> 
> But nothing generic which simply allows you to receive the entire packet 
> header.
> 
> This is in similar vein to TCP_SAVE_SYN but for UDP and other datagram 
> sockets.
> 
> This is envisioned as a way to get GUE extension metadata for encapsulated
> packets, but implemented in a way to be much more future proof.
> 
> (Implemented by Luigi, who asked me to send it upstream)
> 

Hmm... what happened to IPv6 ? ;)

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