Subject: Re: [iproute PATCH] libnetlink: Double the dump buffer size

From: Stephen Hemminger <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2016 15:35:53 -0800

On Fri, 4 Mar 2016 18:57:28 +0000
Phil Sutter <[email-masked]> wrote:

> There have been reports about 'ip addr' printing "Message truncated" on
> systems with large numbers of VFs. Although I haven't been able to get
> my hands on hardware suitable to reproduce this, increasing the dump
> buffer has been reported to resolve the issue. For want of a better
> idea, just double the buffer size to 32k.
> 
> Feels like this opportunistic buffer size selection is rather
> workarounding a design flaw in libnetlink or maybe even the netlink
> protocol itself.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Phil Sutter <[email-masked]>
> ---
>  lib/libnetlink.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/lib/libnetlink.c b/lib/libnetlink.c
> index d6b5fd3e8a493..245c4ca216753 100644
> --- a/lib/libnetlink.c
> +++ b/lib/libnetlink.c
> @@ -223,7 +223,7 @@ int rtnl_dump_filter_l(struct rtnl_handle *rth,
>  		.msg_iov = &iov,
>  		.msg_iovlen = 1,
>  	};
> -	char buf[16384];
> +	char buf[32768];
>  	int dump_intr = 0;
>  
>  	iov.iov_base = buf;

I thought this was addressed in kernel by making the VF info optional.
The netlink protocol is showing some strain, this is one of them.