On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 12:45 PM, Eric Dumazet <eduma...@google.com> wrote:
> When a RST packet is processed, we send two wakeup events to interested
> polling users.
>
> First one by a sk->sk_error_report(sk) from tcp_reset(),
> followed by a sk->sk_state_change(sk) from tcp_done().
>
> Depending on machine load and luck, poll() can either return POLLERR,
> or POLLIN|POLLOUT|POLLERR|POLLHUP (this happens on 99 % of the cases)
>
> This is probably fine, but we can avoid the confusion by reordering
> things so that we have more TCP fields updated before the first wakeup.
>
> This might even allow us to remove some barriers we added in the past.
>
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eduma...@google.com>

Acked-by: Soheil Hassas Yeganeh <soh...@google.com>

> ---
>  net/ipv4/tcp_input.c | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
> index 
> a5838858c362cd3270296001ceaae341e9e9bf01..37e2aa925f62395cfb48145cd3a76b6afebb64b1
>  100644
> --- a/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
> +++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
> @@ -4008,10 +4008,10 @@ void tcp_reset(struct sock *sk)
>         /* This barrier is coupled with smp_rmb() in tcp_poll() */
>         smp_wmb();
>
> +       tcp_done(sk);
> +
>         if (!sock_flag(sk, SOCK_DEAD))
>                 sk->sk_error_report(sk);
> -
> -       tcp_done(sk);
>  }
>
>  /*
> --
> 2.12.2.762.g0e3151a226-goog
>

Thanks, Eric. Nice improvement!

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