From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>, buytenh@wantstofly.org, netdev@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: way of figuring out total number of retransmitted packets on a TCP socket?
Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 01:27:19 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041020232719.GG995@wotan.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041020160728.1d5a337e.davem@davemloft.net>
On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 04:07:28PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 01:04:05 +0200
> Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> wrote:
>
> > Is it really necessary? Our struct sock is already bloated enough
> > as is ... If Lennert needs it for some obscure purpose it's probably
> > better if he just does it locally.
>
> There are a couple of "__u32" holes before pointers in tcp_opt
> which is the space I was going to use for this new item.
On 64bit you mean? That doesn't help the 32bit challenged users.
>
> tcp_opt will be getting smaller some time soon as well, since
> we can consolidate most of the congestion control knobs into
> a single set of datums or some kind of union.
ok. good. I remember the times when you made jokes about the size
of TCBs in some other OSes. I bet we beat them all now in bloat, but it's
good that things are shrinking again.
-Andi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-20 23:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-20 13:01 way of figuring out total number of retransmitted packets on a TCP socket? Lennert Buytenhek
2004-10-20 13:25 ` Baruch Even
2004-10-20 22:16 ` David S. Miller
2004-10-20 22:14 ` David S. Miller
2004-10-20 22:35 ` Lennert Buytenhek
2004-10-20 22:53 ` David S. Miller
2004-10-20 23:04 ` Andi Kleen
2004-10-20 23:07 ` David S. Miller
2004-10-20 23:27 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2004-10-20 23:42 ` David S. Miller
2004-10-21 1:18 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2004-10-20 23:44 ` Lennert Buytenhek
2004-10-20 23:44 ` David S. Miller
2004-10-21 9:01 ` Lennert Buytenhek
2004-10-21 4:37 ` David S. Miller
2004-10-26 13:47 ` Lennert Buytenhek
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