Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 10 Jun 2002 08:24:44 -0400 (EDT) | From | jamal <> | Subject | Re: RFC: per-socket statistics on received/dropped packets |
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On Mon, 10 Jun 2002, David S. Miller wrote:
> From: Lincoln Dale <ltd@cisco.com> > Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 22:03:25 +1000 > > would you be willing to accept a patch that enables per-socket > accounting with a CONFIG_ option? > > What is the point? > > If all the dists will enable it then everybody eats the overhead. > If the dists don't enable it, how useful is it and what's so wrong > with it being an external patch people just apply when they need to > diagnose something like this? >
I think i would agree with Dave for it to be an external patch. You really only need this during debugging. I had a similar patch when debugging NAPI about a year ago. I didnt find it that useful after a while because i could deduce the losses from SNMP/netstat output.
cheers, jamal
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