netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] net/reuseport: drop legacy code

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Date:   Thu, 30 Nov 2017 11:07:35 -0500 (EST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     pabeni@...hat.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, kraig@...gle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net/reuseport: drop legacy code

From: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2017 15:39:34 +0100

> Since commit e32ea7e74727 ("soreuseport: fast reuseport UDP socket
> selection") and commit c125e80b8868 ("soreuseport: fast reuseport
> TCP socket selection") the relevant reuseport socket matching the current
> packet is selected by the reuseport_select_sock() call. The only
> exceptions are invalid BPF filters/filters returning out-of-range
> indices.
> In the latter case the code implicitly falls back to using the hash
> demultiplexing, but instead of selecting the socket inside the
> reuseport_select_sock() function, it relies on the hash selection
> logic introduced with the early soreuseport implementation.
> 
> With this patch, in case of a BPF filter returning a bad socket
> index value, we fall back to hash-based selection inside the
> reuseport_select_sock() body, so that we can drop some duplicate
> code in the ipv4 and ipv6 stack.
> 
> This also allows faster lookup in the above scenario and will allow
> us to avoid computing the hash value for successful, BPF based
> demultiplexing - in a later patch.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>

Applied, thank you.