Re: [PATCH] Improve behaviour of Netlink Sockets

[jamal <hadi@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2004-09-21 at 22:48, Pablo Neira wrote:
> jamal wrote:
> 
> >For a test i typically have something adding say 10K items (actions in
> >my case, but could be ipsec policies) and then try to dump them. On my
> >xeon i get an overrun after about 6K items are dumped.
> >
> 
> Jamal, you're getting an overrun dumping ipsec policies. If I'm not 
> wrong, that tool is doing that as dump operation, but that this 
> shouldn't happen by using dump. Am I missing something?

Its not ipsec policies, rather tc actions - but i expect the same to
happen to ipsec policies being dumped..

> I would like to have a way to send notifications via netlink sockets 
> without losing congestion control ability, that is, without losing 
> messages because of an overrun.

This is a legit requirement. It is also legit to be able to do so for
just a basic get request (not a dump). Nothing in the semantics of
netlink says that it should work in one way or the other only.

cheers,
jamal

BTW, I was never able to dload your code; i think you might have taken
it offline?