Re: [PATCH] Increase snd/rcv buffers in pppoe

[Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 23 Feb 2004 10:26:13 -0800
"David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 
> The proposal I make intends to avoid this endless tweaking.

[...] Sounds good to me.
 
> Two more observations while grepping for SK_{R,W}MEM_MAX.
> 
> 1) IPV4 icmp sents sk_sndbuf of it's sockets to "2 * SK_WMEM_MAX", that's not
>    what it really wants.  What it really wants is enough space to hold
>    ~2 full sized IPV4 packets, roughly 2 * 64K + struct sk_buff overhead
>    and thus that is what it should be using there.

Just sk_buff overhead for what MTU? 576? (would be a bit extreme)
And in theory it could be one byte packets too.

> 2) IPV6 icmp does the same as ipv4, except this value is even more wrong there
>    especially considering jumbograms.  With current code, sending a jumbogram
>    ipv6 icmp packet would simply fail, and I wonder if anyone has even tried
>    this.

Isn't even ICMPv6 limited to the minimum guaranteed MTU (1000 something) like 
ICMPv4 is to
576 bytes?

-Andi