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Re: [PATCH] Improve behaviour of Netlink Sockets

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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Improve behaviour of Netlink Sockets
From: Pablo Neira <pablo@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 00:55:49 +0200
Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxx>, netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx
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Hi Jamal,

jamal wrote:

Theres one valuable piece in his patch. Ability to congestion control
the kernel so user space can clear the socket queue. The alternative is
an overun. You have shot a hole in the workqueue approach. May i also
recommend we revert the patch until we have a better resolution, Dave?



whatever you decided I'll be ok to improve the solution

Pablo you really need to provide some good testcases to prove this.



Jamal, I told you that I made a tool to stress netlink sockets, I think that it could help. I'll post in some hours to the maillist.


regards,
Pablo

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