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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [1/1] Deprecate tcp_tw_{reuse,recycle}
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 17:49:57 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080131164956.GG25989@bingen.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47A1FA42.4070503@candelatech.com>

On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 08:41:38AM -0800, Ben Greear wrote:
> I don't know exactly how the tcp_tw_recycle works, but it seems like it 
> could be made to only
> take affect when all local ports are used up in TIME_WAIT.  

TIME-WAIT does not actually use up local ports; it uses up remote ports
because it is done on the LISTEN socket which has always a fixed
local port. And it has no idea how many ports the other end has left.

-Andi

      reply	other threads:[~2008-01-31 16:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-30  8:38 [PATCH] [1/1] Deprecate tcp_tw_{reuse,recycle} Andi Kleen
2008-01-30 19:22 ` Ben Greear
2008-01-31  2:59   ` Andi Kleen
2008-01-31  6:37     ` Ben Greear
2008-01-31  6:55       ` Andi Kleen
2008-01-31 16:41         ` Ben Greear
2008-01-31 16:49           ` Andi Kleen [this message]

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