7 is the most, but the proof is way beyond me.
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/TorusColoring.html
A torus's surface is topologically equivalent to a rectangle where opposite sides wrap around to each other. Here is a diagram in the form of a rectangle (taken from the above link).
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