SO_REUSEPORT: strange kernel balancer behaviour

trafdev trafdev at mail.ru
Mon Jul 15 20:06:29 UTC 2013


Yep I think it's wasting of resources, poll manager should somehow be 
configured to update only one process/thread.
Anyone know how to do that?
Thanks.

On Mon Jul 15 12:53:55 2013, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> i've noticed this when doing this stuff in a threaded program with
> each thread listening on the same port.
>
> All threads wake up on each accepted connection, one thread wins and
> the other threads get EAGAIN.
>
>
>
> -adrian
>
> On 15 July 2013 12:31, trafdev <trafdev at mail.ru> wrote:
>> Thanks for reply.
>>
>> This approach produces lot of "resource temporary unavailable" (eagain) on
>> accept-ing connections in N-1 processes.
>> Is this possible to avoid this by e.g. tweaking kqueue?
>>
>>
>> On Sun Jul 14 19:37:59 2013, Sepherosa Ziehau wrote:
>>>
>>> On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 1:16 PM, trafdev <trafdev at mail.ru> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hello.
>>>>
>>>> Could someone help with following problem of SO_REUSEPORT.
>>>
>>>
>>> The most portable "load balance" between processes listening on the
>>> same TCP addr/port probably is:
>>>
>>> s=socket();
>>> bind(s);
>>> listen(s);
>>> /* various socketopt and fcntl as you needed */
>>> pid=fork();
>>> if (pid==0) {
>>>       server_loop(s);
>>>       exit(1);
>>> }
>>> server_loop(s);
>>> exit(1);
>>>
>>> Even in Linux or DragonFly SO_REUSEPORT "load balance" between
>>> processes listening on the same TCP addr/port was introduced recently,
>>> so you probably won't want to rely on it.
>>>
>>> Best Regards,
>>> sephe
>>>
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