Re: iproute uses too small of a receive buffer

[Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>]

On 10/28/2009 01:07 PM, Patrick McHardy wrote:
> Ben Greear wrote:
>> On 10/28/2009 12:50 PM, Patrick McHardy wrote:
>>
>>>> And, even 1MB may not be enough for some scenarios.  So, probably
>>>> best to
>>>> let users over-ride the initial setting on cmd-line.  If not, then use
>>>> a large value to start with.
>>>
>>> How about this? It uses 1MB as receive buf limit by default (without
>>> increasing /proc/sys/net/core/rmem_max it will be limited by less
>>> however) and allows to specify the size manually using "-rcvbuf X"
>>> (-r is already used, so you need to specify at least -rc).
>>>
>>> Additionally rtnl_listen() continues on ENOBUFS after printing the
>>> error message.
>>
>> Looks good..except:
>>
>> If rmem_max is smaller than 1M, will that cause setsocktopt to
>> fail and thus fail early out of rtnl_open_byproto?
>
> No, the kernel takes the value as a hint and only uses the
> maximum allowable value:

Sweet.  No complaints from me then.

Thanks,
Ben

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