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authorLaurent Bercot <ska-skaware@skarnet.org>2025-05-02 17:04:50 +0000
committerLaurent Bercot <ska@appnovation.com>2025-05-02 17:04:50 +0000
commitbff439345cafa59a4bd72c2a20591e7bd8441b47 (patch)
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downloadmdevd-bff439345cafa59a4bd72c2a20591e7bd8441b47.tar.gz
Increase default kbufsz to 1 MiB; don't die on ENOBUFS (but spam)
Signed-off-by: Laurent Bercot <ska@appnovation.com>
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@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ for all these devices.
<h2> Interface </h2>
<pre>
- mdevd-coldplug [ -v <em>verbosity</em> ] [ -s <em>slashsys</em> ] [ -O <em>nlgroup</em> ] [ -b <em>kbufsize</em> ]
+ mdevd-coldplug [ -v <em>verbosity</em> ] [ -s <em>slashsys</em> ] [ -O <em>nlgroup</em> ] [ -b <em>kbufsz</em> ]
</pre>
<ul>
@@ -57,8 +57,8 @@ if <a href="mdevd.html">mdevd</a> is running with a similar <tt>-O</tt>
option with a compatible value; else, <tt>mdevd-coldplug</tt> will wait
forever. </li>
<li> <tt>-b</tt>&nbsp;<em>kbufsz</em>&nbsp;: try and reserve a kernel buffer of
-<em>kbufsz</em> bytes for the netlink queue. The default is 500 kB;
-if you're getting "No buffer space available" errors, try increasing this number.
+<em>kbufsz</em> bytes for the netlink queue. The default is 1 MiB;
+if you're getting related warnings on stderr, try increasing this number.
This option is only meaningful when paired with the <tt>-O</tt> option. </li>
</ul>