netdev - Re: [net-next PATCH v3 0/3] net: reserve ports for applications using fixed port numbers

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Date:	Mon, 15 Feb 2010 20:39:30 +0800
From:	Cong Wang <amwang@...hat.com>
To:	Octavian Purdila <opurdila@...acom.com>
CC:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com>,
	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [net-next PATCH v3 0/3] net: reserve ports for applications using
 fixed port numbers

Octavian Purdila wrote:
> This patch series is based on Amerigo's v2 but it now uses a bitmap
> for port reservation.
> 
> I've ran a while (1) { bind(0) } test (with ip_local_port_range
> 1024 65000) to see if there is any performance difference between the
> two approaches (ranges vs bitmap). I could not detect any significant
> difference, both cases scored in 2.76s +/- 0.01 on my setup.
> 
> I've based this patch series on current net-next, but it contains a
> significant non networking part. Please let me know if I should handle
> this differently.
> 
> Octavian Purdila (3):
>   sysctl: refactor integer handling proc code
>   sysctl: add proc_dobitmap
>   net: reserve ports for applications using fixed port numbers
> 
>  Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt |   12 +
>  drivers/infiniband/core/cma.c          |    7 +-
>  include/linux/sysctl.h                 |    2 +
>  include/net/ip.h                       |    6 +
>  kernel/sysctl.c                        |  374 +++++++++++++++++++-------------
>  net/ipv4/inet_connection_sock.c        |    5 +
>  net/ipv4/inet_hashtables.c             |    2 +
>  net/ipv4/sysctl_net_ipv4.c             |    7 +
>  net/ipv4/udp.c                         |    3 +-
>  net/sctp/socket.c                      |    2 +
>  10 files changed, 264 insertions(+), 156 deletions(-)
> 

Hey, Octavian, typo in netdev list name...

Could you please fix it and resend? So that this will get more reviews.

Thanks!

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