netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 2/7] inet: create IPv6-equivalent inet

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Message-ID: <1454650495.7627.299.camel@edumazet-glaptop2.roam.corp.google.com>
Date:	Thu, 04 Feb 2016 21:34:55 -0800
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Craig Gallek <kraigatgoog@...il.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 2/7] inet: create IPv6-equivalent inet_hash
 function

On Thu, 2016-02-04 at 10:35 -0500, Craig Gallek wrote:
> From: Craig Gallek <kraig@...gle.com>
> 
> In order to support fast lookups for TCP sockets with SO_REUSEPORT,
> the function that adds sockets to the listening hash set needs
> to be able to check receive address equality.  Since this equality
> check is different for IPv4 and IPv6, we will need two different
> socket hashing functions.
> 
> This patch adds inet6_hash identical to the existing inet_hash function
> and updates the appropriate references.  A following patch will
> differentiate the two by passing different comparison functions to
> __inet_hash.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Craig Gallek <kraig@...gle.com>

Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>