netdev - Re: iproute uses too small of a receive buffer

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Date:	Wed, 28 Oct 2009 21:38:46 +0100
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Ben Greear <greearb@...delatech.com>
CC:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>,
	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>,
	NetDev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: iproute uses too small of a receive buffer

Ben Greear a écrit :

> Second:  Why bail on ENOBUFS at all?  I don't see how it helps the user
> since they will probably just have to start it again, and will miss more
> messages than keeping going would have.
> 
> 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.
> 

In this case, just dont call setsockopt() at all in "ip" and let system use the
standard/default  value (/proc/sys/net/core/rmem_default) that an admin can change
if he wants to handle one million devices :)

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