From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
To: Arturo Borrero Gonzalez <arturo@debian.org>
Cc: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [conntrack-tools PATCH v2] conntrackd: make the daemon run in RT mode by default
Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2017 11:24:36 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170612092436.GA5500@salvia> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <149725643738.6842.5325404856389402790.stgit@nfdev2.cica.es>
On Mon, Jun 12, 2017 at 10:34:35AM +0200, Arturo Borrero Gonzalez wrote:
> In order to prevent netlink buffer overrun, conntrackd is recommended to run
> at max priority.
> Make conntrackd to use a RT (SHED_RR) scheduler by default at max priority.
> This is common among other HA daemons. For example corosync uses SCHED_RR
> by default.
> The scheduler configuration option is kept in order to allow admins to perform
> fine-tuning, but it is deleted from example configuration files.
>
> Note that this default sched priority is so high that it makes the nice value
> useless, so deprecate the nice configuration. Anyway the nice value can be set
> externally at runtime using nice/renice.
>
> The code is moved to the init() routine. In case of error setting the
> scheduler, the system default will be used. Report a message to the user
> and continue working.
Applied, thanks Arturo.
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2017-06-12 8:34 [conntrack-tools PATCH v2] conntrackd: make the daemon run in RT mode by default Arturo Borrero Gonzalez
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