On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 6:26 PM, Prashant Upadhyaya
<praupadhy...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I open a raw socket for listening to all the UDP packets in a raw fashion --
>
> socket(AF_INET, SOCK_RAW, IPPROTO_UDP);
>
> Then I use recvfrom to read the packets over the socket.
>
> The above works mighty fine.
> I want to find out if it is possible to 'load balance' the UDP flows
> by opening up multiple instances of this socket and then possibly
> setting some socket options so that I can scale up the reading via
> multiple threads doing recvfrom on these from multiple cores.
> (I know it is possible over packet sockets, but that is a different usecase)
>
> Regards
> -Prashant

ah, the msg_name field in msghdr should do the trick for src address.
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