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Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2010 10:39:26 -0700 From: Tom Herbert <therbert@...gle.com> To: Brian Bloniarz <bmb@...enacr.com> Cc: Alexander Clouter <alex@...riz.org.uk>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: SO_REUSEPORT >> Of course this depends on what you are doing, but my opinion is that the >> functionality has been unneeded so far by people in the kernel, so *I* >> must be doing something wrong ;) > > Tom Herbert gave a pretty great description of why you > might want this functionality in his original patch submission: > > http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/linux-netdev/2010/4/19/6274993 > > If you follow that thread though, there wasn't consensus about > the best architecture & API for it, and nothing has made it > yet. > I am planning to get back to this as the patch still needs some work and isn't quite robust or optimized yet. Some restructuring is needed in the socket hash lists. The UDP implementation in the patch will work okay, and the TCP works as long as the number of listeners isn't changing. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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