Re: [PATCH] Improve behaviour of Netlink Sockets

[Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Sep 22, 2004 at 08:08:40AM -0400, jamal wrote:
>
> Since netlink is being used for a lot of things now, it may be time to
> obsolete those assumptions. 

I'm not against changes.  But so far I haven't seen anything concrete
about what these new things are yet :)

> Note also, theres a lot of wastage of that scarce sock buffer via page
> sized skbs - its not as trivial to fix, but would go some way to improve
> overrunning of the socket.

I wasn't aware of this scarcity problem.  Can you elaborate?

Thanks,
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