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Re: PATCH v2 [1/1]: MPTCP support for Git on Linux

From
Muhammad Nuzaihan <zaihan@unrealasia.net>
Date
May 17, 2025, 19:25 UTC
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Hi Junio,

MPTCP has been in development for 15 years and only reached maturity in v1 of the protocol.

Only recently in 2020 that this protocol (v1) was officially merged into the Linux kernel mainline but before that Linux MPTCP was developed out-of-tree.

Apple had been using MPTCP in production for the past 12 years for their iOS[1] for Apple's cloud services.

It's no longer an experimental technology it's in the IETF standards track[2] and no longer in experimental track.

I know it's cumbersome to implement MPTCP for every application out there, the same with IPv6 which already had been around for more than 20 years and still not that widely adopted, especially for enterprises.

But i think we have to start somewhere. I myself had been working on IPv6 since 2003 and i think the late Jun Ichiro Hagino probably did the right thing even though people around him might think otherwise.

Anyway, back to git. I think it will benefit the server side more with aggregation but i started to work on this after realising how bad my hotel's wifi and i have a WWAN module and thought of aggregating my bandwidth.

Since Go is enabled MPTCP by default in 1.24, it makes sense for me to add more MPTCP support, at least on the Linux side of things. Go is really popular not just web services but also load balancers (which can also be TCP load balancers).

I cannot vouch Linux kernel's MPTCP implementation as someone had mentioned about the CVE because of backpressure but that CVE was in 2022, 3 years ago.

Go 1.24 with MPTCP by default is only released this year, so time will tell. :-)

I think eventually just like IPv6, people will have knowledge on how it works.

[1]http://blog.multipath-tcp.org/blog/html/2018/12/15/apple_and_multipath_tcp.html [2]https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8684

Regards, Zaihan

On Sat, May 17 2025 at 11:46:12 AM -0700, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

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> Muhammad Nuzaihan <zaihan@unrealasia.net> writes:
> 
>>  Hi,
>> 
>>  This patch is about Multi-Path TCP.
> 
> Perhaps reading and following Documentation/SubmittingPatches and
> possibly MyFirstContribution is in order.
> 
> How widely is MPTCP adopted?  I somehow feel that it is a losing
> proposition to _require_ that each and every _application_ to be
> updated to support it, but say if we take a random set of widely
> used application, how much of them have specific knowledge of how
> to work with MPTCP these days?
> 
> 
>
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