Re: SO_REUSEPORT - can it be done in kernel?

Tom Herbert
2011-02-25T19:51:17Z

> Using your SO_REUSEPORT patch and a modified bind using it. The same
> system is able to deliver ~650K queries per seconds while maxing out
> all cores completely.
>
Nice data point.

> Tom, Bill: do you have a timeline for merging this? Especially the
> UDP bits?
>
Bill has been working on the TCP implementation which is requiring
some fairly major surgery on the listener connections in syn-rcvd
state, this is ongoing.

On the UDP side, I believe the patch is functional, but as Eric
pointed out it probably could be further optimized. I'll split out
the UDP bits into a separate patch and post that...

Tom

> -Thomas
>