Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/9] Network receive deadlock prevention for NBD

[Evgeniy Polyakov]

On Sun, Aug 13, 2006 at 01:06:21PM +0400, Evgeniy Polyakov (johnpol@xxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 12, 2006 at 05:46:07PM -0700, David Miller (davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> > From: Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2006 13:37:06 +0400
> > 
> > > Does it? I though it is possible to only have 64k of working sockets per
> > > device in TCP.
> > 
> > Where does this limit come from?
> > 
> > You think there is something magic about 64K local ports,
> > but if remote IP addresses in the TCP socket IDs are all
> > different, number of possible TCP sockets is only limited
> > by "number of client IPs * 64K" and ram :-)
> 
> I talked about working sockets, but not about how many of them system
> can have at all :)

working -> bound.

-- 
	Evgeniy Polyakov
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