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Message-ID: <20230621150058.59250-1-kuniyu@amazon.com>
Date:   Wed, 21 Jun 2023 08:00:58 -0700
From:   Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@...zon.com>
To:     <lmb@...valent.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH bpf-next v2 3/6] net: remove duplicate reuseport_lookup functions

From: Lorenz Bauer <lmb@...valent.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2023 09:01:15 +0100
> On Tue, Jun 20, 2023 at 7:31 PM Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@...zon.com> wrote:
> >
> > Good point.  This is based on an assumption that all SO_REUSEPORT
> > sockets have the same score, which is wrong for two corner cases
> > if reuseport_has_conns() == true :
> >
> >   1) SO_INCOMING_CPU is set
> >      -> selected sk might have +1 score
> >
> >   2) BPF prog returns ESTABLISHED and/or SO_INCOMING_CPU sk
> >      -> selected sk will have more than 8
> >
> > Using the old score could trigger more lookups depending on the
> > order that sockets are created.
> 
> So the result will still be correct, but it's less performant? Happy
> to fix a perf regression, but if the result is incorrect this might
> need a separate fix?

Right, the result is always correct.

If BPF prog selects a different socket per lookup, there is no
consistency, but it _is_ corret.


> I did some more digging. I think this was introduced by commit
> efc6b6f6c311 ("udp: Improve load balancing for SO_REUSEPORT.") which
> unfortunately ran into a merge conflict. That resulted in Dave Miller
> moving the bug around in commit a57066b1a019 ("Merge
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net"). Can you
> take a look and let me know if you think that is correct?

Yes, I should have updated the score too in efc6b6f6c311 to save
unneeded lookups.  The conflict itself was resolved properly.

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