Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932632AbWHMApt (ORCPT ); Sat, 12 Aug 2006 20:45:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932630AbWHMApt (ORCPT ); Sat, 12 Aug 2006 20:45:49 -0400 Received: from dsl027-180-168.sfo1.dsl.speakeasy.net ([216.27.180.168]:19101 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932621AbWHMAps (ORCPT ); Sat, 12 Aug 2006 20:45:48 -0400 Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2006 17:46:07 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20060812.174607.44371641.davem@davemloft.net> To: johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru Cc: a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl, riel@redhat.com, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, phillips@google.com Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/9] Network receive deadlock prevention for NBD From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <20060812093706.GA13554@2ka.mipt.ru> References: <20060812084713.GA29523@2ka.mipt.ru> <1155374390.13508.15.camel@lappy> <20060812093706.GA13554@2ka.mipt.ru> X-Mailer: Mew version 4.2 on Emacs 21.4 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 672 Lines: 17 From: Evgeniy Polyakov 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 :-) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/