From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: hkchu@google.com
Cc: shemminger@vyatta.com, eric.dumazet@gmail.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add useful per-connection TCP stats for diagnosis purpose.
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2011 21:51:50 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110317.215150.112598866.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=W-=8zhQpfJZ=DrDyUCwrT==5JkwRBiHaDkVXK@mail.gmail.com>
From: Jerry Chu <hkchu@google.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2011 21:33:50 -0700
> Yes I'm familiar with ss and how inet_csk_diag_fill() calls into
> tcp_diag_get_info(),..., etc. Like I mentioned previously the netlink
> interface
> requires a new version of reader app (e.g., ss) to ship every time a new
> counter is added and exported by the kernel, whereas /proc/net/tcp does
> not have such a problem.
You can add new netlink attributes to portably extend the existing
info, and also to add a mechanism by which to make 'ss' utility
upgrades unnecessary.
Please, just use modern mechanisms like netlink and leave legacy
bits like /proc/net/tcp alone, thank you.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-18 4:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-17 8:06 [PATCH] Add useful per-connection TCP stats for diagnosis purpose H.K. Jerry Chu
2011-03-17 8:42 ` Eric Dumazet
2011-03-17 20:16 ` Jerry Chu
2011-03-17 21:20 ` Stephen Hemminger
2011-03-18 4:33 ` Jerry Chu
2011-03-18 4:51 ` David Miller [this message]
2011-03-18 6:05 ` Eric Dumazet
2011-03-19 4:33 ` Jerry Chu
2011-03-19 5:02 ` Eric Dumazet
2011-03-19 5:38 ` Jerry Chu
2011-03-19 6:03 ` Eric Dumazet
2011-03-20 7:30 ` Jerry Chu
2011-03-20 9:18 ` Eric Dumazet
2011-03-21 21:18 ` Stephen Hemminger
2011-03-21 22:19 ` Ben Greear
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