From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pablo Neira Subject: Re: [PATCH] Improve behaviour of Netlink Sockets Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 00:55:49 +0200 Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Message-ID: <414E0E75.30108@eurodev.net> References: <414D0CCD.90209@eurodev.net> <20040919120249.GA5963@gondor.apana.org.au> <414DF11C.1080505@eurodev.net> <20040919215915.GB9573@gondor.apana.org.au> <1095633569.1047.107.camel@jzny.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Herbert Xu , "David S. Miller" , netdev@oss.sgi.com Return-path: To: hadi@cyberus.ca In-Reply-To: <1095633569.1047.107.camel@jzny.localdomain> Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Hi Jamal, jamal wrote: >Theres one valuable piece in his patch. Ability to congestion control >the kernel so user space can clear the socket queue. The alternative is >an overun. You have shot a hole in the workqueue approach. May i also >recommend we revert the patch until we have a better resolution, Dave? > > whatever you decided I'll be ok to improve the solution >Pablo you really need to provide some good testcases to prove this. > > Jamal, I told you that I made a tool to stress netlink sockets, I think that it could help. I'll post in some hours to the maillist. regards, Pablo