[netperf-dev] Controlling socket priority

[Rick Jones]

On 08/25/2011 11:44 AM, Rick Jones wrote:
> Amir -
>
> I went to apply your patch via "patch" and all but configure.ac was
> rejected. Also, the convention for setting things on the data socket on
> the netserver side is to set the "local" version of the variable and let
> create_data_socket() handle it.
>
> I went ahead and added things by hand, omitting the changes to the
> "classic" tests and only doing the omni and making the requisite fixups.
> I've compiled it and run a couple of quick sanity checks to make sure
> that expected values are printed in the output. I've not looked at
> packets on the wire.
>
> The result is in the top of trunk for you and others to give a try. Keep
> in mind that the need to increase the control message size means that
> top-of-trunk will *not* work with previous versions of netperf. Both
> sides will have to be updated.

Amir (et al)

There was a minor little bug in what I checked-in where it wasn't 
actually trying to make the setsockopt() call.  I've fixed that and 
pushed it to the repository.

rick