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From: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@gmail•com>
To: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail•com>
Cc: Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@ioremap•net>,
	Nagendra Tomar <tomer_iisc@yahoo•com>,
	netdev@vger•kernel.org, davem@davemloft•net
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net-next: Fix __inet_inherit_port() to correctly increment bsockets and num_owners
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2010 13:33:20 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101129133320.GA9759@ff.dom.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1291036666.3435.435.camel@edumazet-laptop>

On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 02:17:46PM +0100, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> Le lundi 29 novembre 2010 ?? 13:12 +0000, Jarek Poplawski a écrit :
> 
> > Evgeniy & Eric,

Eric & Evgeniy ;-)

> > But it's compared to the numer of available port numbers in
> > inet_csk_get_port():
> > 
> >      "if (atomic_read(&hashinfo->bsockets) > (high - low) + 1)"
> > 
> > Can't you have bsockets higher than this with only one port used?
> > 
> 
> Because we store tuples, not only port information.
> 
> You can have many sockets bound on a single port.
> 
> This 'optimization' was only meaningful on a machine you make only
> active connections, if you ask me...

That's what I've missed...

> Problem is, as soon as some passive connections are done, bsockets count
> becomes wrong. The patch fixes this, thats all.

Sure, the numbers are correct now. I wondered about this optimization
only.

Thanks for explanations,
Jarek P.

  reply	other threads:[~2010-11-29 13:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-11-27  0:26 [PATCH] net-next: Fix __inet_inherit_port() to correctly increment bsockets and num_owners Nagendra Tomar
2010-11-27  9:02 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-11-28 23:00 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2010-11-29  2:20   ` David Miller
2010-11-29 12:39   ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-11-29 12:49     ` Eric Dumazet
2010-11-29 12:51     ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2010-11-29 13:12       ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-11-29 13:17         ` Eric Dumazet
2010-11-29 13:33           ` Jarek Poplawski [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2010-11-26 10:47 [PATCH] net: " Eric Dumazet
2010-11-27  0:01 ` [PATCH] net-next: " Nagendra Tomar

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