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From: "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@redhat.com>
To: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: Hagen Paul Pfeifer <hagen@jauu.net>,
	"Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@elastic.org>,
	Satoru Moriya <satoru.moriya@hds.com>,
	David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	"netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	"tgraf@infradead.org" <tgraf@infradead.org>,
	"stephen.hemminger@vyatta.com" <stephen.hemminger@vyatta.com>,
	"eric.dumazet@gmail.com" <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>,
	Seiji Aguchi <seiji.aguchi@hds.com>,
	fche@sourceware.org, mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca,
	rostedt@goodmis.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] Tracepoint for tcp retransmission
Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2012 11:21:36 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120206162136.GJ27935@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120206155305.GB3620@hmsreliant.think-freely.org>

Hi -

On Mon, Feb 06, 2012 at 10:53:05AM -0500, Neil Horman wrote:

> [...] If you're unfamiliar with them, netfilter hooks are those
> standard points in the network input/output/forwarding paths at
> which we can watch and maniupulate network traffic.  [...]

Aha, nf_register_hook and friends.  Thanks for the pointer.

> > Does this mean that this netfilter hook mechanism is sufficient to
> > adapt to the current/future diversity of behaviors?  Why not make
> > *that* into a tracepoint then, so perf/stap scripts could get at it in
> > userspace?

> I suppose you could.  [...]  I'm suggesting a kernel module because
> then you wouldn't have the performance overhead of moving all those
> frames to user space.

(For what it's worth, if there were a tracepoint in the netfilter 
hook machinery, stap would be able to process the packets likewise,
in-kernel, with no kernel debuginfo installed.)

- FChE

  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-02-06 16:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-01-20 18:07 [PATCH v2 0/2] Tracepoint for tcp retransmission Satoru Moriya
2012-01-20 18:08 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] tcp: refactor tcp_retransmit_skb() for a single return point Satoru Moriya
2012-01-20 18:09 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] tcp: add tracepoint for tcp retransmission Satoru Moriya
2012-01-20 18:50 ` [PATCH v2 0/2] Tracepoint " David Miller
2012-02-03 21:47   ` Satoru Moriya
2012-02-04  4:40     ` Yuchung Cheng
2012-02-06 18:32       ` Satoru Moriya
2012-02-04 14:28     ` Neil Horman
2012-02-04 15:58       ` Hagen Paul Pfeifer
2012-02-04 20:09         ` Neil Horman
2012-02-05 12:53           ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2012-02-05 19:17             ` Neil Horman
2012-02-05 20:04               ` Hagen Paul Pfeifer
2012-02-05 21:48                 ` David Miller
2012-02-06  1:32                 ` Neil Horman
2012-02-06 15:20                   ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2012-02-06 15:24                     ` Eric Dumazet
2012-02-06 15:38                       ` Neil Horman
2012-02-06 15:53                     ` Neil Horman
2012-02-06 16:18                       ` Steven Rostedt
2012-02-06 17:02                         ` Eric Dumazet
2012-02-06 17:18                           ` Steven Rostedt
2012-02-06 16:21                       ` Frank Ch. Eigler [this message]
2012-02-06 18:21                       ` Satoru Moriya
2012-01-25 13:27 ` Hagen Paul Pfeifer
2012-01-25 14:44   ` Eric Dumazet
2012-01-26 18:51     ` David Miller
2012-02-03 20:31     ` Satoru Moriya
2012-02-03 20:43   ` Satoru Moriya
2012-02-03 20:55     ` Hagen Paul Pfeifer

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