Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] Cleanups to tcp socket pool handling

[Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>]

On Tue, 14 Feb 2023 10:48:18 +1100
David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> wrote:

> This is a bit of a diversion from what I'm notionally working on at
> the moment.  While thinking about what we'd need to use the
> IP_TRANSPARENT socket option to broaden the cases where we can
> "splice", I noticed some inelegancies in how we handle the pool of
> pre-opened sockets in the TCP code, and well, here we are.
> 
> This makes a number of cleanups to the handling of these pools.  Most
> notably, tcp_splice_connect() now has simpler semantics: it now always
> runs in the init namespace, and is always given a pre-opened socket
> (which could be in the guest ns).
> 
> Changes since v1:
>  * Rebased
>  * Improved wording of some commit messages
> 
> David Gibson (5):
>   tcp: Make a helper to refill each socket pool
>   tcp: Split init and ns cases for tcp_sock_refill()
>   tcp: Move socket pool declarations around
>   tcp: Split pool lookup from creating new sockets in
>     tcp_conn_new_sock()
>   tcp: Improve handling of fallback if socket pool is empty on new
>     splice

Applied too.

-- 
Stefano