On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 9:23 AM, Eric Dumazet <eric.duma...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2015-11-11 at 09:05 -0800, Tom Herbert wrote:
>> On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 10:19 PM, Eric Dumazet <eric.duma...@gmail.com> 
>> wrote:
>> > On Tue, 2015-11-10 at 21:41 -0800, Tom Herbert wrote:
>> >> Tolga, are you still planning to respin this patch (when tree opens?)
>> >
>> > I was planning to add an union on skc_tx_queue_mapping and
>> > sk_max_ack_backlog, so that adding a check on sk_max_ack_backlog in
>> > listener lookup would not add an additional cache line miss.
>> >
>> > This would remove false sharing because sk_ack_backlog is often dirtied
>> > when a socket is added into accept queue.
>> >
>> That's sounds like good fixes, but my question was more about the
>> problem originally described by Tolga where we are transitioning
>> processing for a listener port from one process to another. I think
>> the conclusion in this thread was to modify the code so that
>> listen(fd, 0) would stop new connections from being assigned to a
>> socket (as opposed to explicit SO_REUSEPORT_LISTEN_OFF option). Does
>> this still seem reasonable?
>
> Actually listen(fd, 0) is not going to work well :
>
> For request_sock that were created (by incoming SYN packet) before this
> listen(fd, 0) call, the 3rd packet (ACK coming from client) would not be
> able to create a child attached to this listener.
>
> sk_acceptq_is_full() test in tcp_v4_syn_recv_sock() would simply drop
> the thing.
>
> I was mainly objecting adding yet another socket option.
>
> Maybe setsockopt(... SO_REUSEPORT, &off, sizeof(off)) could detect the
> condition automatically ?
>
How about doing this in shutdown called for a listener?

> (I am not sure current behavior of setting sk->sk_reuseport = valbool;
> is correct if valbool==0 and current sk_reuseport is 1)
>
>
>
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