| Message ID | 1341593561-14090-5-git-send-email-greearb@candelatech.com |
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On Fri, Jul 06, 2012 at 09:52:39AM -0700, greearb@candelatech.com wrote: > I was getting this error on wpa_supplicant startup when configured > for 200+ stations: > > 1333514002.074458: netlink: recvfrom failed: No buffer space available > > So, increase rcv buffer size to 1MB so we don't drop netlink > packets. This looks like a very special corner case and unnecessary (and potentially undesired) change for more common use cases. If there is a megabyte of pending netlink messages in the buffer, something has went seriously wrong for normal use case and it sounds like a better idea to drop the messages than try to keep collecting more of them. If this is needed for special cases, it would sound more reasonable to increase the buffer once a huge number of virtual interfaces is enabled at the same time.
On 07/07/2012 08:16 AM, Jouni Malinen wrote: > On Fri, Jul 06, 2012 at 09:52:39AM -0700, greearb@candelatech.com wrote: >> I was getting this error on wpa_supplicant startup when configured >> for 200+ stations: >> >> 1333514002.074458: netlink: recvfrom failed: No buffer space available >> >> So, increase rcv buffer size to 1MB so we don't drop netlink >> packets. > > This looks like a very special corner case and unnecessary (and > potentially undesired) change for more common use cases. If there is a > megabyte of pending netlink messages in the buffer, something has went > seriously wrong for normal use case and it sounds like a better idea to > drop the messages than try to keep collecting more of them. > > If this is needed for special cases, it would sound more reasonable to > increase the buffer once a huge number of virtual interfaces is enabled > at the same time. How about a command-line arg to allow users to set the size? Thanks, Ben
diff --git a/src/drivers/netlink.c b/src/drivers/netlink.c index dd662f3..930acc4 100644 --- a/src/drivers/netlink.c +++ b/src/drivers/netlink.c @@ -92,6 +92,7 @@ struct netlink_data * netlink_init(struct netlink_config *cfg) { struct netlink_data *netlink; struct sockaddr_nl local; + int rsize; netlink = os_zalloc(sizeof(*netlink)); if (netlink == NULL) @@ -118,6 +119,18 @@ struct netlink_data * netlink_init(struct netlink_config *cfg) return NULL; } + /* Set the rcv buffer large so we don't drop netlink messages + * on heavily loaded systems. + */ + rsize = 1024 * 1024; + if (setsockopt(netlink->sock, SOL_SOCKET, SO_RCVBUF, + (char *)&rsize, sizeof(rsize)) < 0) { + wpa_printf(MSG_ERROR, + "netlink: Failed setting rcv buffer to: %i: %s\n", + rsize, strerror(errno)); + /* Not the end of the world..continue */ + } + eloop_register_read_sock(netlink->sock, netlink_receive, netlink, NULL);
From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com> I was getting this error on wpa_supplicant startup when configured for 200+ stations: 1333514002.074458: netlink: recvfrom failed: No buffer space available So, increase rcv buffer size to 1MB so we don't drop netlink packets. Signed-hostap: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com> --- src/drivers/netlink.c | 13 +++++++++++++ 1 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)