netlink: autosize skb lengthes
authorEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Fri, 7 Mar 2014 20:02:33 +0000 (12:02 -0800)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Mon, 10 Mar 2014 17:56:26 +0000 (13:56 -0400)
commit9063e21fb026c4966fc93261c18322214f9835eb
treec63b6774f68574b9197fb083af77029d9d4e52c6
parentcd84ff4da1f46cbdc2d73366eabe9a8f818447cd
netlink: autosize skb lengthes

One known problem with netlink is the fact that NLMSG_GOODSIZE is
really small on PAGE_SIZE==4096 architectures, and it is difficult
to know in advance what buffer size is used by the application.

This patch adds an automatic learning of the size.

First netlink message will still be limited to ~4K, but if user used
bigger buffers, then following messages will be able to use up to 16KB.

This speedups dump() operations by a large factor and should be safe
for legacy applications.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Acked-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
net/netlink/af_netlink.c
net/netlink/af_netlink.h