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| -rw-r--r-- | net/ipv4/inet_hashtables.c | 9 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/net/ipv4/inet_hashtables.c b/net/ipv4/inet_hashtables.c index 29c701cd8312..63bb4902f018 100644 --- a/net/ipv4/inet_hashtables.c +++ b/net/ipv4/inet_hashtables.c @@ -833,11 +833,12 @@ next_port: return -EADDRNOTAVAIL; ok: - /* If our first attempt found a candidate, skip next candidate - * in 1/16 of cases to add some noise. + /* Here we want to add a little bit of randomness to the next source + * port that will be chosen. We use a max() with a random here so that + * on low contention the randomness is maximal and on high contention + * it may be inexistent. */ - if (!i && !(prandom_u32() % 16)) - i = 2; + i = max_t(int, i, (prandom_u32() & 7) * 2); WRITE_ONCE(table_perturb[index], READ_ONCE(table_perturb[index]) + i + 2); /* Head lock still held and bh's disabled */ |