Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/9] Network receive deadlock prevention for NBD

Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-08-13T09:52:05Z

On Sun, Aug 13, 2006 at 01:06:21PM +0400, Evgeniy Polyakov (johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru) wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 12, 2006 at 05:46:07PM -0700, David Miller (davem@davemloft.net) wrote:
> > From: Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru>
> > Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2006 13:37:06 +0400
> >
> > > Does it? I though it is possible to only have 64k of working sockets per
> > > device in TCP.
> >
> > Where does this limit come from?
> >
> > You think there is something magic about 64K local ports,
> > but if remote IP addresses in the TCP socket IDs are all
> > different, number of possible TCP sockets is only limited
> > by "number of client IPs * 64K" and ram :-)
>
> I talked about working sockets, but not about how many of them system
> can have at all :)

working -> bound.

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Evgeniy Polyakov