Re: [PATCH] Improve behaviour of Netlink Sockets

On Tue, 2004-09-21 at 22:48, Pablo Neira wrote:

jamal wrote:

quoted

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?