From: Bill Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 10:15:08 -0500
> Another reason the SO_SNDBUF/SO_RCVBUF values shouldn't include > the kernel overhead. If the user requests 100K of kernel data > buffering, then they should get 100K. It shouldn't matter to the > user that the kernel would actually be using a total of 167K of > memory to satisfy the request for 100K of data buffering. It matters to the kernel because the socket snd and receive buffer _limits_ decide how much we can let any particular socket consume at once. That's why we include the struct sk_buff et al. overhead into the calculations in the first place. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
