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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net-next: Fix __inet_inherit_port() to correctly
 increment bsockets and num_owners
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2010 13:49:55 +0100
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Le lundi 29 novembre 2010 =C3=A0 12:39 +0000, Jarek Poplawski a =C3=A9c=
rit :

> 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?
>=20

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.