From: Rick Jones <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 16:46:36 -0700
> David Miller wrote:
> > If DLM really wants minimum, it can use SO_SNDBUFFORCE and
> > SO_RCVBUFFORCE socket options and use whatever limits it
> > likes.
> >
> > But even this is questionable.
>
> Drift...
>
> Is that something netperf should be using though? Right now it uses the regular
> SO_[SND|RCV]BUF calls and is at the mercy of sysctls. I wonder if it would be
> better to have it use their FORCE versions to make life easier on the
> benchmarker - such as myself - who has an unfortunate habit of forgetting to
> update sysctl.conf :)
The force calls are for root only.
And I want to remind you that explicitly setting socket
buffer sizes hurts performance with TCP. I know you know
this but it bears restating for the benefit of others.
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