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Subject: Re: [ANN] Unified dynamic storage for different socket types
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From: Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru>
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2007 21:59:44 +0300

> Yes, current code does not support statistics.
> Existing stats run over whole hash table, I do not like such approach,
> so I will introduce a per-protocol lists of all sockets, which can be
> accessed from statistics code, but it is next step.

We are _NOT_ bloating up the socket structure even more because your
data structure does not support a "iterate over all objects"
operation.

We got rid of the linked list of all sockets per-protocol precisely
for this reason 10 years ago, you cannot add it back, sorry.