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Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2017 08:36:21 -0700 From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com> To: prashantkumar dhotre <prashantkumardhotre@...il.com> Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: Why max netlink msg size is limited to 16k On Sat, 2017-04-22 at 19:43 +0530, prashantkumar dhotre wrote: > I am observing that max netlink msg that my kernel module can send to > user app is close to 16K. > > For larger sizes, genlmsg_unicast() succeeds but my app does not receive data. > > I have tried increasing RECV buffer size in my user app but that does not help. > > Regards You need a kernel >= linux-4.9 to get about 32KB Why is this limited ? Please read https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next.git/commit/?id=d35c99ff77ecb2eb239731b799386f3b3637a31e
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