Mitigations/tunables for reducing netlink loss?

Alexander aldem-bird.201704 at nk7.net
Wed Sep 22 01:17:23 CEST 2021


On 2021-09-21 23:19, Dave Johnson wrote:

> On the previously posted patch, I don't think SO_RCVBUFFORCE would be
> the best idea.  Generally, max system setting should be honored, and
> SO_RCVBUF used (caped at the lesser of user configured value and the
> system-wide max).

The problem is that rmem_max is also global (kind of) as it allows
any user/app (even without CAP_NET_ADMIN capability) to use it, and this
is not always desirable.

/Al


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