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From: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
To: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Cc: passt-dev@passt.top
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/6] tcp: Don't stop refilling socket pool if we find a filled entry
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2024 22:08:49 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20240221220849.685474d9@elisabeth> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20240219075651.1360229-3-david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>

On Mon, 19 Feb 2024 18:56:47 +1100
David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> wrote:

> Currently tcp_sock_refill_pool() stops as soon as it finds an entry in the
> pool with a valid fd.  This appears to makes sense: we always use fds from
> the front of the pool, so if we find a filled one, the rest of the pool
> should be filled as well.
> 
> However, that's not quite correct.  If a previous refill hit errors trying
> to open new sockets, it could leave gaps between blocks of valid fds. We're
> going to add some changes that could make that more likely.

Uh oh, good catch, I didn't think of the possibility that with 3/6 we
could otherwise stop in the middle of a block of "empty" slots, with
filled slots occurring after them.

-- 
Stefano


  reply	other threads:[~2024-02-21 21:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-02-19  7:56 [PATCH 0/6] tcp: Improve error handling around socket pools David Gibson
2024-02-19  7:56 ` [PATCH 1/6] treewide: Use sa_family_t for address family variables David Gibson
2024-02-19  7:56 ` [PATCH 2/6] tcp: Don't stop refilling socket pool if we find a filled entry David Gibson
2024-02-21 21:08   ` Stefano Brivio [this message]
2024-02-21 21:42     ` David Gibson
2024-02-19  7:56 ` [PATCH 3/6] tcp: Stop on first error when refilling socket pools David Gibson
2024-02-19  7:56 ` [PATCH 4/6] tcp, tcp_splice: Issue warnings if unable to refill socket pool David Gibson
2024-02-21 21:09   ` Stefano Brivio
2024-02-21 21:44     ` David Gibson
2024-02-22 12:45       ` Stefano Brivio
2024-02-19  7:56 ` [PATCH 5/6] tcp, tcp_splice: Helpers for getting sockets from the pools David Gibson
2024-02-19  7:56 ` [PATCH 6/6] tcp: Don't store errnos in socket pool David Gibson
2024-02-21 21:09   ` Stefano Brivio
2024-02-21 21:45     ` David Gibson
2024-02-27 14:22 ` [PATCH 0/6] tcp: Improve error handling around socket pools Stefano Brivio

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