From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: eric.dumazet@gmail.com
Cc: greearb@candelatech.com, gasparch@gmail.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: PROBLEM: Linux kernel 2.6.31 IPv4 TCP fails to open huge amount of outgoing connections (unable to bind ... )
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2010 17:14:16 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100420.171416.157904027.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1271808314.7895.614.camel@edumazet-laptop>
From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2010 02:05:14 +0200
> [PATCH net-next-2.6] tcp: remove bsockets count
>
> Counting number of bound sockets to avoid a loop is buggy, since we cant
> know how many IP addresses are in use. When threshold is reached, we try
> 5 random slots and can fail while there are plenty available ports.
>
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Hmmm, yes indeed it seems there are improper assumptions made by
this scheme.
This is a tricky area, so I'll wait for some test results from the
reporter and study the code over a few times myself to make sure
we get this right.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-04-21 0:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-04-20 22:17 PROBLEM: Linux kernel 2.6.31 IPv4 TCP fails to open huge amount of outgoing connections (unable to bind ... ) Gaspar Chilingarov
2010-04-20 22:31 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-04-20 23:18 ` Gaspar Chilingarov
2010-04-20 23:42 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-04-21 0:14 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2010-04-20 23:07 ` Ben Greear
2010-04-20 23:20 ` Gaspar Chilingarov
2010-04-20 23:20 ` Gaspar Chilingarov
2010-04-20 23:30 ` Ben Greear
2010-04-20 23:35 ` Gaspar Chilingarov
2010-04-20 23:49 ` Ben Greear
2010-04-20 23:57 ` Gaspar Chilingarov
2010-04-21 0:14 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-04-21 0:05 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-04-21 0:12 ` Gaspar Chilingarov
2010-04-21 0:14 ` David Miller [this message]
2010-04-21 0:30 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2010-04-21 2:04 ` David Miller
2010-04-21 5:46 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-04-21 8:25 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2010-04-21 9:02 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-04-21 9:58 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2010-04-21 10:21 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-04-21 11:27 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-04-21 16:52 ` George B.
2010-04-21 18:27 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2010-04-21 18:43 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-04-21 18:58 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2010-04-21 19:26 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-04-21 20:08 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2010-04-23 2:06 ` David Miller
2010-04-25 14:26 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-04-25 15:56 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2010-04-25 16:13 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-04-25 16:21 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-04-25 16:35 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-04-25 22:08 ` David Miller
2010-04-21 19:03 ` Narendra Choyal
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