Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 08 Apr 2009 00:18:28 -0700 (PDT) | Subject | Re: [PATCH] IPv4/IPv6: update sysctl files | From | David Miller <> |
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From: Shen Feng <shen@cn.fujitsu.com> Date: Wed, 08 Apr 2009 11:28:21 +0800
> > > on 04/08/2009 10:47 AM, Ben Hutchings wrote: >> On Wed, 2009-04-08 at 02:39 +0000, Shen Feng wrote: >>> Now the following sysctl files in /proc/sys/net/ipv4 are used by >>> both IPv4 and IPv6. >>> tcp_mem tcp_rmem tcp_wmem >>> udp_mem udp_rmem_min udp_wmem_min >>> Putting them in /proc/sys/net/ipv4 is not a good choice. >> [...] >> >> But this is part of the ABI to userland. You cannot remove sysctl files >> without long advance notice documented in feature-removal-schedule.txt >> (if at all). >> >> If it is possible to add the paths >> /proc/sys/net/{tcp,udp} while retaining aliases under /proc/sys/net/ipv4 >> then that might be a workable solution. > > Thanks. That's a good solution. > > But I'm still confused. > Why not create another tcp_mem in /proc/sys/net/ipv6?
People just need to understand that ipv4 is always going to be there and that's where all the tcp controls are.
I really am not going to entertain changes that try to move generic inet sysctl things out of the ipv4 directory. There is really no point at all.
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