On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 12:06:52PM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 09:19:45AM +0100, Gleb Natapov wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 09:28:34PM +0300, kuznet@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > > Hello!
> > >
> > > > Resync should be an exception and not the rule IMO.
> > >
> > > If in your system simultaneous UP of 100 interfaces is not an exception.
> > > 8)
> > Forget about interfaces :). Suppose I have BGP router with 100.000 prefixes
> > on
> > one interface. When interface goes UP my router daemon adds all this
> > prefixes
> > to the kernel. This will generate burst of netlink messages right?
>
> Netlink sendmsg does flow control based on the buffer.
>
But if there is another process listening to netlink and it wants to know about
routing
table changes. Will kernel stop the process that adds routes to the routing
table until
reading process will empty the socket? I hope not.
--
Gleb.
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