forked from Minki/linux
mainlining shenanigans
67cc570eda
On x86_64, each notification results in one skbuff allocation which consumes at least 768 bytes due to the skbuff overhead. This patch coalesces several notifications into one single skbuff, so each notification consumes at least ~211 bytes, that ~3.5 times less memory consumption. As a result, this is reducing the chances to exhaust the netlink socket receive buffer. Rule of thumb is that each notification batch only contains netlink messages whose report flag is the same, nfnetlink_send() requires this to do appropriate delivery to userspace, either via unicast (echo mode) or multicast (monitor mode). The skbuff control buffer is used to annotate the report flag for later handling at the new coalescing routine. The batch skbuff notification size is NLMSG_GOODSIZE, using a larger skbuff would allow for more socket receiver buffer savings (to amortize the cost of the skbuff even more), however, going over that size might break userspace applications, so let's be conservative and stick to NLMSG_GOODSIZE. Reported-by: Phil Sutter <phil@nwl.cc> Acked-by: Phil Sutter <phil@nwl.cc> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org> |
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Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.