netdev - Re: SO_REUSEPORT - can it be done in kernel?

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Message-ID: <20110302002353.GA15009@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date:	Wed, 2 Mar 2011 08:23:54 +0800
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc:	Thomas Graf <tgraf@...radead.org>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, rick.jones2@...com,
	therbert@...gle.com, wsommerfeld@...gle.com,
	daniel.baluta@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: SO_REUSEPORT - can it be done in kernel?

On Tue, Mar 01, 2011 at 05:31:24PM +0100, Eric Dumazet wrote:
>
> This wont work for tcp streams, you could imagine a multi-threaded
> application using a shared tcp socket as well. Too many OOO packets.

Think about it, a TCP socket cannot be used by a multi-threaded app
in a scalable way.

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