doc/userguide: af-packet upgrade notes

Add note about increased block size and how to change it back to old
defaults if needed.

Ticket: #7458
pull/12779/head
Jason Ish 4 months ago committed by Victor Julien
parent b8b6ed550a
commit c6d18fc871

@ -103,6 +103,14 @@ Major changes
change, however if you run these tools from the source directory,
patch them or use them as Python modules your workflows may need to
be adapted.
- The AF_PACKET default block size for both TPACKET_V2 and TPACKET_V3
has been increased from 32k to 128k. This is to allow for full size
defragmented packets. For TPACKET_V3 the existing ``block-size``
parameter can be used to change this back to the old default of
32768 if needed. For TPACKET_V2 a new configuration parameter has
been added, ``v2-block-size`` which can be used to tune this value
for TPACKET_V2. Due to the increased block size, memory usage has
been increased, but should not be an issue in most cases.
Removals
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