netdev - Re: [PATCH] net-next: Fix __inet_inherit_port() to correctly increment bsockets and num

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Message-ID: <1291034995.3435.345.camel@edumazet-laptop>
Date:	Mon, 29 Nov 2010 13:49:55 +0100
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@...il.com>
Cc:	Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@...emap.net>,
	Nagendra Tomar <tomer_iisc@...oo.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	davem@...emloft.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net-next: Fix __inet_inherit_port() to correctly
 increment bsockets and num_owners

Le lundi 29 novembre 2010 à 12:39 +0000, Jarek Poplawski a écrit :

> Probably I miss something, but since bsockets is increased by each
> passive connection now, it seems it will trigger "hash table is full"
> too early?
> 

bsockets is the number of bound sockets.

It must be increased for each passive connection, since they are
bound :)

The value of bsockets is used to speedup bind() syscall, if few sockets
are bound. If not, no optimization takes place.



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