Re: min-write-size for a UDP socket to be POLLOUT cannot be set. (proposed fixes)

[Ben Greear]

Richard B. Johnson wrote:

> On Mon, 10 Dec 2001, Ben Greear wrote:
> 
> 
>>This relates to my earlier question about setting the threshold
>>at which select returns that a (UDP) socket is writable.
>>
>>It appears that UDP sockets are hardwired at 2048 bytes...
>>
>> From linux/include/net/sock.h:
>>
> 
>     int len = 0x8000;
> 
>     setsockopt(s, SOL_SOCKET, SO_SNDBUF, &len, sizeof(len));
>     setsockopt(s, SOL_SOCKET, SO_RCVBUF, &len, sizeof(len));
> 
> 
> Doesn't this work?

That sets the queue sizes bigger, but suppose this:

I have 4M queue size.  I have 4M-2k bytes already in the
queue (2k free).  I have a 4k UDP buffer to write.  I call
select and it says the socket is writable.  However, in this
case I cannot actually write to the socket because I have only
2 of the 4k that I need...  Now, I can detect the failure to send
and re-transmit, but that basically gets me into a tight loop because
select keeps saying I can write, and I keep trying.  The tight loop
is doubly bad because the machine is already highly stressed or it's
buffers would never be so full....

I want select to only say I can write when I'm at XX (say, 64k) bytes of
free buffer-queue space...

Ben

> 
> Cheers,
> Dick Johnson
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