On Thu, 2016-02-11 at 11:48 -0500, David Miller wrote:
> 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.
Sure, let me take a look.
