Re: WL_SOCKET_ACCEPT fairness on Windows

On 3/31/23 11:00 PM, Thomas Munro wrote:

>>> I mention this now because I'm not sure whether to consider this an
>>> 'open item' for 16, or merely an enhancement for 17. I guess the
>>> former, because someone might call that a new denial of service
>>> vector. On the other hand, if you fill up the listen queue for socket
>>> 1 with enough vigour, you're also denying service to socket 1, so I
>>> don't know if it's worth worrying about. Opinions on that?
>>
>> I'm not sure either. It doesn't strike me as a particularly relevant
>> bottleneck. And the old approach of doing more work for every single
>> connection also made many connections worse, I think?
>
> Alright, let's see if anyone else thinks this is worth fixing for 16.

[RMT hat]

Given this has sat for a bit, I wanted to see if any of your thinking
has changed on whether this should be fixed for v16 or v17. I have
personally not formed an opinion yet, but per the current discussion, it
seems like this could wait?

Thanks,

Jonathan