Re: rpc/tcp mesg size

From: P.Basker (basker_p@bbv.satyam.com)
Date: Sat Apr 29 2000 - 16:26:34 EST


Sorry I forgot to mention. Im running my code on 2.2.14 kernel.
Im able to send data of k bytes sucessfully between the client server
kernel modules.

> > Im trying to send data across 2 kernel modules using rpc
> > client
> > server. I want to know what is the maximum data limit of
>
> RPC client or RPC server? They are 2 completely different sets of
> code.
>
> > sending RPC argument when using as a TCP service. Im abl to
> > send around 3800 bytes, but after that I get "sk_data
> > negative!", "bad directions", "dropping requests" messages. Is
> > there any limitation imposed by the kernel?
>
> For the RPC server stuff: the answer is that tcp is still not working
> properly.
>
> For the RPC client, the limitation is currently 10 iov entries in
> 2.3.99-pre6. That gives you 32k rsize and wsize over NFS.
> For 2.2.x RPC over tcp doesn't work without extra patches.

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