netdev - Re: listen(2) backlog changes in or around Linux 3.1?

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Date:	Fri, 19 Oct 2012 02:14:50 -0700
From:	Vijay Subramanian <subramanian.vijay@...il.com>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc:	enh <enh@...gle.com>,
	Venkat Venkatsubra <venkat.x.venkatsubra@...cle.com>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: listen(2) backlog changes in or around Linux 3.1?

> diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c
> index ef998b0..0404926 100644
> --- a/net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c
> +++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c
> @@ -1507,7 +1507,7 @@ int tcp_v4_conn_request(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb)
>          * clogging syn queue with openreqs with exponentially increasing
>          * timeout.
>          */
> -       if (sk_acceptq_is_full(sk) && inet_csk_reqsk_queue_young(sk) > 1)
> +       if (__sk_acceptq_is_full(sk, inet_csk_reqsk_queue_young(sk)))
>                 goto drop;
>

For what its worth, I think the changes make sense. But is there any
reason to exclude old request_socks in the  call to
__sk_acceptq_is_full().?
as in
      if (__sk_acceptq_is_full(sk, inet_csk_reqsk_queue_len(sk)))
               goto drop;

I am not sure why the current code looks only at young request_socks.
Thanks,
Vijay
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