[vlc-devel] [PATCH] network: export SO_RCVBUF & SR_SNDBUF as config options

Rémi Denis-Courmont remi at remlab.net
Wed Nov 20 15:28:19 CET 2013


On Wed, 20 Nov 2013 13:59:55 +0100, "Steinar H. Gunderson"
<sgunderson at bigfoot.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 02:36:34PM +0200, Ilkka Ollakka wrote:
>>>>> The default for VLC (at least on Linux) should simply be to leave it
>>>>> alone,
>>>>> though, as Linux has socket buffer size auto-tuning these days.
>>>> Leave it alone for Linux probably will be fine since we can still
>>>> manipulate the
>>>> system-wise default values if we have to.
>> I agree that atleast in Linux we should just remove the calls to change
>> recvbuf and sendbuf. Haven't tested in Windows how well Windows can
tune
>> those itself to be proper.
> 
> I'm pretty sure that on modern Windows (around Vista or 7 or something),
> this is also relatively reasonable.

Fine then, feel free to remove the SO_...BUF socket options.

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