From: Eric Dumazet <eduma...@google.com> Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2016 18:08:56 -0800
> Big servers have bloated bind table, making very hard to succeed > ephemeral port allocations, without special containers/namespace tricks. > > This patch series extends the strategy added in commit 07f4c90062f8 > ("tcp/dccp: try to not exhaust ip_local_port_range in connect()"). > > Since ports used by connect() are much likely to be shared among them, > we give a hint to both bind() and connect() to keep the crowds separated > if possible. > > Of course, if on a specific host an application needs to allocate ~30000 > ports using bind(), it will still be able to do so. Same for ~30000 connect() > to a unique 2-tuple (dst addr, dst port) > > New implemetation is also more friendly to softirqs and reschedules. I'm getting rejects on the second patch, please respin and repost. Thanks Eric.