From: Brodie Greenfield <brodie.greenfi...@alliedtelesis.co.nz> Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2019 17:57:27 +1300
> We want to have some more space in our queue for processing incoming > multicast packets, so we can process more of them without dropping > them prematurely. It is useful to be able to increase this limit on > higher-spec platforms that can handle more items. > > For the particular use case here at Allied Telesis, we have linux > running on our switches and routers, with support for the number of > multicast groups being increased. Basically, this queue length affects > the time taken to fully learn all of the multicast streams. > > Changes in v3: > - Corrected a v4 to v6 typo. This is a new feature, and therefore net-next material. The net-next tree is closed, please resubmit when it opens back up.
