On 12/10/19 2:20 PM, Matteo Croce wrote:
> 
> Before this patch (which unfortunately is needed to avoid -EMFILE
> errors with many ports), how many sockets are awakened when an ARP is
> received?
> 

on systems using 2.7.3 I see only a single handler thread awakened on
upcalls.

Yes, I saw the commit message on the change. At the moment, the socket
descriptor scaling problem has morphed into a thundering herd scheduling
problem with the added overhead of waking up all of threads in the
packet path.
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