On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 11:00 PM, Willy Tarreau <w...@1wt.eu> wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 06:38:03PM -0800, Eric Dumazet wrote:
>> On Fri, 2015-12-18 at 19:58 +0100, Willy Tarreau wrote:
>> > Hi Josh,
>> >
>> > On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 08:33:45AM -0800, Josh Snyder wrote:
>> > > I was also puzzled that binding succeeded. Looking into the code paths
>> > > involved, in inet_csk_get_port, we quickly goto have_snum. From there, 
>> > > we end
>> > > up dropping into tb_found. Since !hlist_empty(&tb->owners), we end up 
>> > > checking
>> > > that (tb->fastreuseport > 0 && sk->sk_reuseport && uid_eq(tb->fastuid, 
>> > > uid)).
>> > > This test passes, so we goto success and bind.
>> > >
>> > > Crucially, we are checking the fastreuseport field on the 
>> > > inet_bind_bucket, and
>> > > not the sk_reuseport variable on the other sockets in the bucket. Since 
>> > > this
>> > > bit is set based on sk_reuseport at the time the first socket binds (see
>> > > tb_not_found), I can see no reason why sockets need to keep SO_REUSEPORT 
>> > > set
>> > > beyond initial binding.
>> > >
>> > > Given this, I believe Willy's patch elegantly solves the problem at hand.
>> >
>> > Great, thanks for your in-depth explanation.
>> >
>> > Eric, do you think that this patch may be acceptable material for next
>> > merge window (given that it's not a fix per-se) ? If so I'll resubmit
>> > later.
>>
>> I need to check with Craig Gallek, because he was about to upstream a
>> change to make SO_REUSEPORT more scalable & sexy (like having an [e]BPF
>> filter to perform the selection in an array of sockets)
>
> OK fine. Please note that I also considered using a new value instead of
> zero there but I preferred to avoid it since the man talked about zero/
> non-zero so I wanted to limit any API change. If Craig adds new values
> there then this is something we can reconsider.
>
Is there any reason why this turning off a soreuseport socket should
not apply to UDP also? (seems like we have a need to turn off RX but
not TX for a UDP socket).

Tom

> Have a nice week-end,
> Willy
>
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