From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932466AbXJZXqz (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Oct 2007 19:46:55 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1760286AbXJZXql (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Oct 2007 19:46:41 -0400 Received: from palrel12.hp.com ([156.153.255.237]:33239 "EHLO palrel12.hp.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759694AbXJZXqj (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Oct 2007 19:46:39 -0400 Message-ID: <47227C5C.1070507@hp.com> Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 16:46:36 -0700 From: Rick Jones User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; HP-UX 9000/785; en-US; rv:1.7.13) Gecko/20060601 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Miller Cc: ebiederm@xmission.com, bunk@kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] always export sysctl_{r,w}mem_max References: <20071026230807.GE30533@stusta.de> <472278E3.4000909@hp.com> <20071026.163958.171785530.davem@davemloft.net> In-Reply-To: <20071026.163958.171785530.davem@davemloft.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org David Miller wrote: > If DLM really wants minimum, it can use SO_SNDBUFFORCE and > SO_RCVBUFFORCE socket options and use whatever limits it > likes. > > But even this is questionable. Drift... Is that something netperf should be using though? Right now it uses the regular SO_[SND|RCV]BUF calls and is at the mercy of sysctls. I wonder if it would be better to have it use their FORCE versions to make life easier on the benchmarker - such as myself - who has an unfortunate habit of forgetting to update sysctl.conf :) rick jones