From: Peter Oskolkov <p...@google.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2018 13:15:32 -0800

> A relatively common use case is to have several IPs configured
> on a host, and have different listeners for each of them. We would
> like to add a "catch all" listener on addr_any, to match incoming
> connections not served by any of the listeners bound to a specific
> address.
> 
> However, port-only lookups can match addr_any sockets when sockets
> listening on specific addresses are present if so_reuseport flag
> is set. This patchset eliminates lookups into port-only hashtable,
> as lookups by (addr,port) tuple are easily available.
> 
> In a future patchset I plan to explore whether it is possible
> to remove port-only hashtables completely: additional refactoring
> will be required, as some non-lookup code uses the hashtables.

This looks great, series applied.

Thanks.

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