tcp/dccp: install syn_recv requests into ehash table

In this patch, we insert request sockets into TCP/DCCP
regular ehash table (where ESTABLISHED and TIMEWAIT sockets
are) instead of using the per listener hash table.

ACK packets find SYN_RECV pseudo sockets without having
to find and lock the listener.

In nominal conditions, this halves pressure on listener lock.

Note that this will allow for SO_REUSEPORT refinements,
so that we can select a listener using cpu/numa affinities instead
of the prior 'consistent hash', since only SYN packets will
apply this selection logic.

We will shrink listen_sock in the following patch to ease
code review.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Ying Cai <ycai@google.com>
Cc: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/net/ipv4/syncookies.c b/net/ipv4/syncookies.c
index 6b97b5f6457c..729ceb5f63c6 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/syncookies.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/syncookies.c
@@ -284,6 +284,10 @@ bool cookie_ecn_ok(const struct tcp_options_received *tcp_opt,
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(cookie_ecn_ok);
 
+/* On input, sk is a listener.
+ * Output is listener if incoming packet would not create a child
+ *           NULL if memory could not be allocated.
+ */
 struct sock *cookie_v4_check(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb)
 {
 	struct ip_options *opt = &TCP_SKB_CB(skb)->header.h4.opt;