On 05/24/2010 03:28 AM, Michael Kerrisk wrote:
> Actually, SO_*BUF is pretty weird. It returns double what was
> supplied. It's not simply a matter of rounding up: it always doubles
> what was supplied.
Rationale in net/core/sock.c:
set_rcvbuf:
sk->sk_userlocks |= SOCK_RCVBUF_LOCK;
/*
* We double it on the way in to account for
* "struct sk_buff" etc. overhead. Applications
* assume that the SO_RCVBUF setting they make will
* allow that much actual data to be received on that
* socket.
*
* Applications are unaware that "struct sk_buff" and
* other overheads allocate from the receive buffer
* during socket buffer allocation.
*
* And after considering the possible alternatives,
* returning the value we actually used in getsockopt
* is the most desirable behavior.
*/
if ((val * 2) < SOCK_MIN_RCVBUF)
sk->sk_rcvbuf = SOCK_MIN_RCVBUF;
else
sk->sk_rcvbuf = val * 2;
break;
I'm guessing pipes don't have this kind of wrinkle.
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