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Re: netlink drops messages.

To: Gleb Natapov <gleb@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: netlink drops messages.
From: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 12:06:52 +0100
Cc: kuznet@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <20010117101720.F5122@nbase.co.il>; from gleb@nbase.co.il on Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 09:19:45AM +0100
References: <20010116200600.C5122@nbase.co.il> <200101161828.VAA31502@ms2.inr.ac.ru> <20010117101720.F5122@nbase.co.il>
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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.


-Andi
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