Yes the primary benefits would be network performance. Especially for whonix users given the slowness of Tor. People using typical VPNs may also benefit with having increased UDP limits (as these services scarcely use the TCP protocol, at least by default).
The added protections against DoS attacks would also be quite effective as they are going to be combined with existing sysctl parameters in security-misc.
I have committed the changes on a local branch shown below:
Two possible strategies moving forward are:
- Create
performance-miscand include these changes, or - If the creation of
performance-miscis premature, merge intosecurity-miscfor now and separate the changes later.