Re: [PATCH] Improve behaviour of Netlink Sockets

[Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 08:14:42PM +0200, Pablo Neira wrote:
> 
> jamal wrote:
>
> >Agreed.
> >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.

Good.  That's something we can look at easily.  Dumping is meant to
be self-controlling as each packet naturally stops the next one from
being sent until the user has done a recvmsg.

> yes, this is exactly what I've observed.
> 
> Here a link to the tool that I use to stress netlink sockets.
> 
> http://eurodev.net/~pablo/netlinkbench-unicast-1.0.tar.gz

Thanks for the link.  I'll take a look.

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