From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: davem@davemloft.net, gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk, kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru,
yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
dccp@vger.kernel.org, Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@microsoft.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v3 0/2] socket statistics for ss
Date: Wed, 9 May 2018 10:31:44 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180509103144.195e7494@xeon-e3> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <be94fb64-1dd5-e512-50d6-16a1b7d4d092@gmail.com>
On Wed, 9 May 2018 10:18:23 -0700
Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 05/09/2018 08:22 AM, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
>
> > I am not sure if these patches are worth applying.
> > The 'ss -s' command has had missing values since 2.4 kernel.
> > And the first complaints came in only this year.
> >
> > Another alternative would be just to remove these fields from ss -s
> > output and move on.
> >
>
> Anyway your patches are not netns ready, so lets remove these fields from ss.
>
> Or you have to spend _much_ more time on writing and testing the kernel part.
>
> Thanks.
The patches only expose the existing TCP socket accounting infrastructure.
Several other pieces that sockstat has are not netns aware.
That is a completely different problem.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-05-09 17:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-05-07 18:43 [PATCH net-next v3 0/2] socket statistics for ss Stephen Hemminger
2018-05-07 18:43 ` [PATCH net-next v3 1/2] inet: add bound ports statistic Stephen Hemminger
2018-05-07 18:43 ` [PATCH net-next v3 2/2] socket: keep track of the number of sockets allocated Stephen Hemminger
2018-05-09 15:22 ` [PATCH net-next v3 0/2] socket statistics for ss Stephen Hemminger
2018-05-09 17:18 ` Eric Dumazet
2018-05-09 17:31 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2018-05-09 17:53 ` Eric Dumazet
2018-05-09 18:44 ` Stephen Hemminger
2018-05-09 18:53 ` Eric Dumazet
2018-05-09 19:34 ` Stephen Hemminger
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