On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 2:47 AM, Eric Dumazet <eric.duma...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, 2015-08-19 at 23:41 +0530, tej parkash wrote: >> All, >> >> We are running application on Linux Kernel 3.10 to collect network >> interface information using NETLINK_ROUTE protocol. earlier (kernel >> 2.6.32) we were having 8K buffer allocated to collect all data but >> with new kernel (3.10) we are seeing read socket error, as buffer size >> is not sufficient for all network dump data. >> >> We want to understand that if the userspace buffer limit increased to >> 16K or we need some other mechanism to collect the data in 8K chuck. >> or Is there any other way application can use NETLINK_ROUTE protocol, >> so that it will not break the application if data size gets increased >> in future. >> >> I did some some browsing and found some link but they were not very >> conclusive. >> http://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg162185.html >> >> Appreciate for any kind of help or pointers here >> > > This sounds like a bug that might have been fixed later. https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/kernel-team/2014-August/046758.html
Is this the patch we are talking about? It is available from 3.13 kernel only. Let me also verify it, if it is working for us. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
