netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] net: sock_rps_record

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Date:   Thu, 08 Dec 2016 11:32:00 -0800
From:   Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:     Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
Cc:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Willem de Bruijn <willemb@...gle.com>,
        Tom Herbert <tom@...bertland.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: sock_rps_record_flow() is for connected
 sockets

On Thu, 2016-12-08 at 19:50 +0100, Paolo Abeni wrote:

> UDP GRO will require connected socket - very likely no DNS server. The
> use-case is an application using long lived UDP sockets doing a lot of
> traffic, like fix protocol feeds over UDP. 

You mean, the kind of traffic that should use TCP in the first place,
right ? ;)

NFS switched to TCP a long time ago.