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by jandrese 3723 days ago
I'm not sure inet_lookup_listener requires a rewrite for a general purpose kernel. They were hitting this problem because they were doing something unusual (starting thousands of listeners on the same port) and they found a pretty reasonable workaround.

In particular, a rewrite would have to make sure not to make the general case worse in an attempt to avoid this pathological situation.