From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: zbr@ioremap.net
Cc: eric.dumazet@gmail.com, 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 19:04:14 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100420.190414.252166338.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100421003022.GA3107@ioremap.net>
From: Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@ioremap.net>
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2010 04:30:22 +0400
> To return back to exponential bind() times you need to revert the whole
> original patch including magic 5 number, not only bsockets.
Indeed, if we keep that '5' thing there it's just going to still fail
similarly.
> But actual problem is not in this digit, but in a deeper logic.
> Previously we scanned the whole table, now we have 5 attempts to
> find out at least one bucket (without conflict) we will insert
> new socket into. Apparently for large number of addresses it is possible
> that all 5 times we will randomly select those buckets which conflicts.
> As dumb solution we can increase 'attempt' number to infinite one, or
> fallback to whole-table-search after several random attempts, which is a
> bit more clever I think.
If random number generator is not too terrible, just using infinite
limit would be roughly equivalent.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-04-21 2:04 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
2010-04-21 0:30 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2010-04-21 2:04 ` David Miller [this message]
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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