From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Cc: cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
netdev@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: RFC: per-socket statistics on received/dropped packets
Date: Fri, 07 Jun 2002 15:15:24 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D01307C.4090503@candelatech.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3CFFB9F8.54455B6E@nortelnetworks.com> <20020606.202108.52904668.davem@redhat.com>
Datagram sockets are the ones that drop data though (tcp will
deal with it via re-transmits).
I have not looked at his patch in detail, but I would welcome anything
that gets us closer to being able to account for every packet that enters
the NIC, or enters the kernel from user-space via send(to), etc...
David S. Miller wrote:
> Your idea is totally useless for non-datagram sockets.
> Only datagram sockets use the interfaces where you bump
> the counters.
>
> I don't like the patch, nor the idea behind it, at all.
>
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-06-08 20:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 92+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-06-06 19:37 RFC: per-socket statistics on received/dropped packets Chris Friesen
2002-06-07 3:21 ` David S. Miller
2002-06-07 15:34 ` Chris Friesen
2002-06-07 15:34 ` Chris Friesen
2002-06-07 22:15 ` Ben Greear
2002-06-07 22:15 ` Ben Greear [this message]
2002-06-08 21:05 ` Mark Mielke
2002-06-08 23:04 ` David S. Miller
2002-06-09 0:13 ` Ben Greear
2002-06-09 0:13 ` Ben Greear
2002-06-09 0:51 ` David S. Miller
2002-06-09 0:51 ` David S. Miller
2002-06-09 18:23 ` Ben Greear
2002-06-10 4:34 ` David S. Miller
2002-06-10 4:34 ` David S. Miller
2002-06-10 5:55 ` Mark Mielke
2002-06-10 5:55 ` Mark Mielke
2002-06-10 6:08 ` Ben Greear
2002-06-10 6:08 ` Ben Greear
2002-06-10 12:03 ` Lincoln Dale
2002-06-10 12:03 ` Lincoln Dale
2002-06-10 12:18 ` David S. Miller
2002-06-10 12:18 ` David S. Miller
2002-06-10 12:24 ` jamal
2002-06-10 13:57 ` Mark Mielke
2002-06-10 14:45 ` jamal
2002-06-10 14:56 ` jamal
2002-06-10 19:28 ` Chris Friesen
2002-06-10 19:28 ` Chris Friesen
2002-06-10 19:28 ` Chris Friesen
2002-06-10 19:28 ` Chris Friesen
2002-06-10 19:28 ` Chris Friesen
2002-06-10 18:44 ` David Ford
2002-06-10 18:50 ` Thunder from the hill
2002-06-10 19:02 ` David Ford
2002-06-11 22:41 ` Bill Davidsen
2002-06-11 22:41 ` Bill Davidsen
2002-06-12 3:41 ` David S. Miller
2002-06-12 3:41 ` David S. Miller
2002-06-12 3:57 ` Richard Guy Briggs
2002-06-12 5:20 ` Mark Mielke
2002-06-12 5:20 ` Mark Mielke
2002-06-12 6:08 ` Pekka Savola
2002-06-12 6:26 ` Ben Greear
2002-06-12 6:26 ` Ben Greear
2002-06-12 6:32 ` Pekka Savola
2002-06-12 6:32 ` Pekka Savola
2002-06-12 6:49 ` Ben Greear
2002-06-12 6:49 ` Ben Greear
2002-06-12 12:11 ` Horst von Brand
2002-06-12 12:28 ` Lincoln Dale
2002-06-12 12:28 ` Lincoln Dale
2002-06-12 12:33 ` jamal
2002-06-12 12:44 ` Lincoln Dale
2002-06-12 12:44 ` Lincoln Dale
2002-06-12 12:44 ` Lincoln Dale
2002-06-12 12:44 ` Lincoln Dale
2002-06-12 13:00 ` jamal
2002-06-12 13:00 ` jamal
2002-06-12 14:53 ` Mark Mielke
2002-06-12 14:53 ` Mark Mielke
2002-06-12 14:53 ` Mark Mielke
2002-06-12 15:57 ` jamal
2002-06-12 15:57 ` jamal
2002-06-12 17:00 ` Horst von Brand
2002-06-12 17:00 ` Horst von Brand
2002-06-14 0:24 ` Lincoln Dale
2002-06-14 15:51 ` Stephen Hemminger
2002-06-14 18:09 ` Ben Greear
2002-06-14 18:09 ` Ben Greear
2002-06-14 15:51 ` Stephen Hemminger
2002-06-12 14:52 ` john slee
2002-06-12 14:55 ` Mark Mielke
2002-06-13 2:52 ` Lincoln Dale
2002-06-13 19:53 ` Horst von Brand
2002-06-13 7:21 ` David Schwartz
2002-06-13 8:44 ` Lincoln Dale
2002-06-13 10:10 ` David Schwartz
2002-06-13 10:10 ` David Schwartz
2002-06-13 8:44 ` Lincoln Dale
2002-06-13 7:21 ` David Schwartz
2002-06-23 2:03 ` Alan Cox
2002-06-23 2:03 ` Alan Cox
2002-06-23 2:05 ` Lincoln Dale
2002-06-12 12:11 ` Horst von Brand
2002-06-12 6:08 ` Pekka Savola
2002-06-12 9:18 ` Sean Hunter
2002-06-12 9:18 ` Sean Hunter
2002-06-08 23:04 ` David S. Miller
2002-06-09 14:47 ` Pekka Pietikäinen
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