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, change, however if you run these tools from the source directory,
patch them or use them as Python modules your workflows may need to patch them or use them as Python modules your workflows may need to
be adapted. 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.
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