netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 6/7] soreuseport: fast reuseport TCP socket selection

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Date:	Thu, 04 Feb 2016 21:38:26 -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 6/7] soreuseport: fast reuseport TCP socket
 selection

On Thu, 2016-02-04 at 10:35 -0500, Craig Gallek wrote:
> From: Craig Gallek <kraig@...gle.com>
> 
> This change extends the fast SO_REUSEPORT socket lookup implemented
> for UDP to TCP.  Listener sockets with SO_REUSEPORT and the same
> receive address are additionally added to an array for faster
> random access.  This means that only a single socket from the group
> must be found in the listener list before any socket in the group can
> be used to receive a packet.  Previously, every socket in the group
> needed to be considered before handing off the incoming packet.

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