From: Eric Dumazet <eduma...@google.com>
Date: Fri,  2 Oct 2015 11:43:22 -0700

> TCP listener refactoring : this is becoming interesting !
> 
> This patch series takes the steps to use normal TCP/DCCP ehash
> table to store SYN_RECV requests, instead of the private per-listener
> hash table we had until now.
> 
> SYNACK skb are now attached to their syn_recv request socket,
> so that we no longer heavily modify listener sk_wmem_alloc.
> 
> listener lock is no longer held in fast path, including
> SYNCOOKIE mode.
> 
> During my tests, my server was able to process 3,500,000
> SYN packets per second on one listener and still had available
> cpu cycles.
> 
> That is about 2 to 3 order of magnitude what we had with older kernels.
> 
> This effort started two years ago and I am pleased to reach expectations.
> 
> We'll probably extend SO_REUSEPORT to add proper cpu/numa affinities,
> so that heavy duty TCP servers can get proper siloing thanks to multi-queues
> NIC.

This looks amazing, series applied, thanks Eric!
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