On Wed, Sep 4, 2019 at 10:51 AM Steve Zabele [off-list ref] wrote:

I think a dual table approach makes a lot of sense here, especially if we look at the different use cases. For the DNS server example, almost certainly there will not be any connected sockets using the server port, so a test of whether the connected table is empty (maybe a boolean stored with the unconnected table?) should get to the existing code very quickly and not require accessing the memory holding the connected table. For our use case, the connected sockets persist for long periods (at network timescales at least) and so any rehashing should be infrequent and so have limited impact on performance overall.

So does a dual table approach seem workable to other folks that know the internals?

Let me take a stab and compare. A dual table does bring it more in
line with how the TCP code is structured.