linux-kernel - Re: connection failure after "tcp: remove max_qlen

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Message-ID: <CAKx2Y1mqyzN9FWWarDB7SyKR2-Qvn38--pWSoss0AxhaBTbp2Q@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Mon, 25 Jan 2016 23:40:28 -0800
From:	Kui Zhang <kuizhang@...il.com>
To:	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
Cc:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: connection failure after "tcp: remove max_qlen_log"

I was using 2.7.11.

Older version did set backlog to 1 ( http://bugs.python.org/issue8498 ).



On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 7:18 PM, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 2:17 AM, Kui Zhang <kuizhang@...il.com> wrote:
>> We licensed the java software. As far as I can tell, the connection is
>> for IPC with a child process. There should not be large RTT.
>>
>> I will contact vendor regarding to listen(fd,0) issue, on Monday.
>>
>> I am not fully convinced, that is the problem. I saw that man page for
>> listen. However accept() works, in python, with backlog = 0. The java
>> software works with kernel build one commit before.
>
> Note that python (2.4.6 here) translates sock.listen(0) to listen(fd,
> 1), maybe to avoid surprises on some OS ;)
>
> $ cat lis.py
> #!/usr/bin/python
>
> import socket
> sock = socket.socket()
> sock.setsockopt(socket.SOL_SOCKET, socket.SO_REUSEADDR, 1)
> sock.bind(('127.0.0.1',42000))
> sock.listen(0)
> s, a= sock.accept()
>
> s.send('test')
>
> $ strace ./lis.py
> ...
> close(5)                                = 0
> close(4)                                = 0
> close(3)                                = 0
> futex(0x8d8e460, FUTEX_WAKE, 1)         = 0
> socket(PF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, IPPROTO_IP) = 3
> setsockopt(3, SOL_SOCKET, SO_REUSEADDR, [1], 4) = 0
> bind(3, {sa_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(42000),
> sin_addr=inet_addr("127.0.0.1")}, 16) = 0
> listen(3, 1)                            = 0
> accept(3,