netdev - Re: [PATCH 1/8] net: add limit for socket backlog

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Date:	Wed, 03 Mar 2010 09:47:55 +0100
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@...el.com>
Cc:	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...stprotocols.net>,
	"Pekka Savola (ipv6)" <pekkas@...core.fi>,
	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>,
	Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@...com>,
	Sridhar Samudrala <sri@...ibm.com>,
	Per Liden <per.liden@...csson.com>,
	Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@...csson.com>,
	Allan Stephens <allan.stephens@...driver.com>,
	Andrew Hendry <andrew.hendry@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/8] net: add limit for socket backlog

Le mercredi 03 mars 2010 à 16:14 +0800, Zhu Yi a écrit :

> I want to provide a method for protocols to set its sock backlog limit.
> For example, the sctp_rmem is 373500 (sysctl_sctp_rmem[1]) which is
> larger than (sysctl_rmem_default << 1). But I'm not very sure about the
> actual required size. So I didn't make it in the sctp patch. What do you
> think?

I think this is not about bug fixes, but followup patches.

We should first address the bug asap, then do further refinements later.



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