From: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
To: Octavian Purdila <opurdila@ixiacom.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, eric.dumazet@gmail.com,
linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
nhorman@tuxdriver.com, linux-sctp@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC Patch] net: reserve ports for applications using fixed port numbers
Date: Mon, 08 Feb 2010 11:21:50 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B6F834E.4010801@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201002051405.54029.opurdila@ixiacom.com>
Octavian Purdila wrote:
> On Friday 05 February 2010 06:45:38 you wrote:
>
>> Again, using bitmap algorithm is not a problem and it's better, the
>> problem is sysctl interface, how would you plan to interact with users
>> via sysctl/proc if you use bitmap to handle this? I would like to hear
>> more details about this.
>>
>
> We could use something like positive values for setting and negative for reset
> (e.g. 3 would set the port in the bitmap and -3 would reset it).
Hmm, then how do you output the info of those ports? Arrays of bitmaps?
>
> But we would need new sysctl and proc handlers to handle the bitmap case (e.g.
> sysctl_bitmap, proc_dobitmap_minmax).
Maybe.
Thanks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-02-08 3:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-02-03 4:30 [RFC Patch] net: reserve ports for applications using fixed port numbers Amerigo Wang
2010-02-03 4:39 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-02-03 5:15 ` Cong Wang
2010-02-03 11:12 ` Octavian Purdila
2010-02-04 3:23 ` Cong Wang
2010-02-04 12:44 ` Octavian Purdila
2010-02-04 17:41 ` David Miller
2010-02-04 18:15 ` Octavian Purdila
2010-02-04 18:21 ` David Miller
2010-02-04 21:45 ` Tetsuo Handa
2010-02-04 21:56 ` David Miller
2010-02-05 0:41 ` Tetsuo Handa
2010-02-05 1:05 ` Octavian Purdila
2010-02-05 6:01 ` Cong Wang
2010-02-05 12:28 ` Octavian Purdila
2010-02-05 4:45 ` Cong Wang
2010-02-05 12:05 ` Octavian Purdila
2010-02-08 3:21 ` Cong Wang [this message]
2010-02-08 16:51 ` Octavian Purdila
2010-02-05 7:11 ` Bart Van Assche
2010-02-05 7:25 ` Cong Wang
2010-02-05 9:08 ` [RFC Patch] net: reserve ports for applications using fixed portnumbers Tetsuo Handa
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