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Background: Broadcast and multicast packages are enqueued for later processing. This queue was previously hardcoded to 1000. This proved insufficient for handling very high packet rates. This resulted in packet drops for multicast. While at the same time unicast worked fine. The change: This patch make the queue length adjustable to accommodate for environments with very high multicast packet rate. But still keeps the default value of 1000 unless specified. The queue length is specified as a request per macvlan using the IFLA_MACVLAN_BC_QUEUE_LEN parameter. The actual used queue length will then be the maximum of any macvlan connected to the same port. The actual used queue length for the port can be retrieved (read only) by the IFLA_MACVLAN_BC_QUEUE_LEN_USED parameter for verification. This will be followed up by a patch to iproute2 in order to adjust the parameter from userspace. Signed-off-by: Thomas Karlsson <thomas.karlsson@paneda.se> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/dd4673b2-7eab-edda-6815-85c67ce87f63@paneda.se Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.