On Sat, Apr 22, 2000 at 10:18:19AM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
>
> Linux reserves half of the socket buffer for metadata (skbuff headers etc.)
> BSD doesn't do that. Most programs using SO_SNDBUF/SO_RCVBUF didn't expect
> this, because traditional BSD does not do metadata accounting, and on Linux
> they ended up with too small effective buffers. To fix this Linux always
> doubles the buffer internally to stay compatible.
If you're "reserving" half, then why don't you report half back? Now I
think I have a buffer that is twice the size I have.
Kurt
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