fjpanag commented on code in PR #7525:
URL: https://github.com/apache/nuttx/pull/7525#discussion_r1045628017
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net/tcp/Kconfig:
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@@ -51,11 +51,45 @@ config NET_TCPURGDATA
compiled in. Urgent data (out-of-band data) is a rarely used
TCP feature
that is very seldom would be required.
-config NET_TCP_CONNS
- int "Number of TCP/IP connections"
+config NET_TCP_PREALLOC_CONNS
+ int "Preallocated TCP/IP connections"
default 8
---help---
- Maximum number of TCP/IP connections (all tasks)
+ Number of TCP/IP connections (all tasks).
+
+ This number of connections will be pre-allocated during system
boot.
+ If dynamic connections allocation is enabled, more connections
may
+ be allocated at a later time, as the system needs them. Else
this
+ will be the maximum number of connections available to the
system
+ at all times.
+
+ Set to 0 to disable (and rely only on dynamic allocations).
+
+config NET_TCP_ALLOC_CONNS
+ int "Dynamic TCP/IP connections allocation"
+ default 0
+ ---help---
+ Dynamic memory allocations for TCP/IP.
+
+ When set to 0 all dynamic allocations are disabled.
+
+ When set to 1 a new connection will be allocated every time,
+ and it will be free'd when no longer needed.
+
+ Setting this to 2 or more will allocate the connections in
+ batches (with batch size equal to this config). When a
+ connection is no longer needed, it will be returned to the
+ free connections pool, and it will never be deallocated!
+
+config NET_TCP_MAX_CONNS
Review Comment:
@anchao Each protocol may have a vastly different use, so different limits
may be needed.
Also each connection struct has a different size, so for a given heap size
you need different limits to take advantage of it all.
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