linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] net: avoid limits overflow

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Message-Id: <20101110.121237.28791448.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Wed, 10 Nov 2010 12:12:37 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	eric.dumazet@...il.com
Cc:	holt@....com, akpm@...ux-foundation.org, w@....eu,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	kuznet@....inr.ac.ru, pekkas@...core.fi, jmorris@...ei.org,
	yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org, kaber@...sh.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: avoid limits overflow

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2010 10:24:26 +0100

> [PATCH] net: avoid limits overflow
> 
> Robin Holt tried to boot a 16TB machine and found some limits were
> reached : sysctl_tcp_mem[2], sysctl_udp_mem[2]
> 
> We can switch infrastructure to use long "instead" of "int", now
> atomic_long_t primitives are available for free.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
> Reported-by: Robin Holt <holt@....com>
> Reviewed-by: Robin Holt <holt@....com>
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>

Applied.
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