From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [net-next PATCH v3 0/3] net: reserve ports for applications using
 fixed port numbers
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2010 20:36:24 +0800
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Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>, netdev@vget.kernel.org,
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	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
To: Octavian Purdila <opurdila@ixiacom.com>
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Octavian Purdila wrote:
> This patch series is based on Amerigo's v2 but it now uses a bitmap
> for port reservation.
> 
> I've ran a while (1) { bind(0) } test (with ip_local_port_range
> 1024 65000) to see if there is any performance difference between the
> two approaches (ranges vs bitmap). I could not detect any significant
> difference, both cases scored in 2.76s +/- 0.01 on my setup.
> 
> I've based this patch series on current net-next, but it contains a
> significant non networking part. Please let me know if I should handle
> this differently.
> 
> Octavian Purdila (3):
>   sysctl: refactor integer handling proc code
>   sysctl: add proc_dobitmap
>   net: reserve ports for applications using fixed port numbers
> 

(Sorry for the delay, we are having Chinese new year here.)

Thanks for your work, Octavian!

Your patches look nice, but I don't have much time to review them today,
I will have a detailed look tomorrow.

Thanks.