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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add useful per-connection TCP stats for diagnosis
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Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2011 10:18:30 +0100
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Le dimanche 20 mars 2011 =C3=A0 00:30 -0700, Jerry Chu a =C3=A9crit :

> I presume the filtering of specific IP addrs/ports are done in the
> kernel to short-circuit the
> O(n) loop. Otherwise it seems moot (i.e., it still costs O(n)).
>=20

=46iltering is done in kernel, and we can extend filtering capa if
necessary.

/proc/net/tcp is a flat file, you cannot do this


> A quick look at inet_csk_diag_dump() does not reveal anything like
> that. But I haven't
> looked hard enough.

You should ;)