Re: [PATCH net-next v2] net/smc: Reduce overflow of smc clcsock listen queue

On 05/01/2022 16:06, D. Wythe wrote:

LGTM. Fallback makes the restrictions on SMC dangling
connections more meaningful to me, compared to dropping them.

Overall, i see there are two scenario.

1. Drop the overflow connections limited by userspace application
accept.

2. Fallback the overflow connections limited by the heavy process of
current SMC handshake. ( We can also control its behavior through
sysctl.)

I vote for (2) which makes the behavior from user space applications point of view more like TCP.

One comment to sysctl: our current approach is to add new switches to the existing 
netlink interface which can be used with the smc-tools package (or own implementations of course). 
Is this prereq problematic in your environment? 
We tried to avoid more sysctls and the netlink interface keeps use more flexible.