Messages in this thread | | | From | Eric Dumazet <> | Date | Mon, 13 Mar 2023 10:33:52 -0700 | Subject | Re: [PATCH net-next] net-sysfs: display two backlog queue len separately |
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On Mon, Mar 13, 2023 at 10:16 AM Jason Xing <kerneljasonxing@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Thanks for the guidance. Scaling is a good way to go really. But I > just would like to separate these two kinds of limits to watch them > closely. More often we cannot decide to adjust accurately which one > should be adjusted. Time squeeze may not be clear and we cannot > randomly write a larger number into both proc files which may do harm > to some external customers unless we can show some proof to them. > > Maybe I got something wrong. If adding some tracepoints for those > limits in softnet_data is not elegant, please enlighten me :) >
I dunno, but it really looks like you are re-discovering things that we dealt with about 10 years ago.
I wonder why new ways of tracing stuff are needed nowadays, while ~10 years ago nothing officially put and maintained forever in the kernel was needed.
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