Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH] udp: Don't save dst in udpv6_sendmsg()

From: Rick Jones <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 09:45:26 -0700

David Miller wrote:
> From: Krishna Kumar <[email-masked]>
> Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:43:36 +0530
> 
> 
>>Performance: I ran netperf UDPv6 RR to use connected sockets.
>>Tested with a 70 min run, aggregate of 5 netperf runs for
>>each result.
> 
> 
> Who actually uses connected UDP sockets? :-)

Somebody must, they sent me patches to optionally connect() the endpoints in a 
UDP_RR test :)

rick jones

trying to decide if he should by default set SO_DONTROUTE on UDP sockets to 
cover the backsides of testers who cause link-down events on devices under test 
with systems connected to their employer's site lans with the default route 
pointing at same...