From: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
To: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: Kconfig: discourage drop_monitor enablement
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2025 17:58:40 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <aPEkQA6cF2-STgv2@horms.kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20251016115147.18503-1-fw@strlen.de>
On Thu, Oct 16, 2025 at 01:51:47PM +0200, Florian Westphal wrote:
> Quoting Eric Dumazet:
> "I do not understand the fascination with net/core/drop_monitor.c [..]
> misses all the features, flexibility, scalability that 'perf',
> eBPF tracing, bpftrace, .... have today."
>
> Reword DROP_MONITOR kconfig help text to clearly state that its not
> related to perf-based drop monitoring and that its safe to disable
> this unless support for the older netlink-based tools is needed.
>
> Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
I think it is always good to guide people in the right direction.
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-10-16 16:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-10-16 11:51 [PATCH net-next] net: Kconfig: discourage drop_monitor enablement Florian Westphal
2025-10-16 16:58 ` Simon Horman [this message]
2025-10-16 18:01 ` Eric Dumazet
2025-10-17 23:40 ` patchwork-bot+netdevbpf
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