From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Subject: Re: way of figuring out total number of retransmitted packets on a TCP socket? Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 22:18:03 -0300 Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Message-ID: <41770E4B.1040906@conectiva.com.br> References: <20041020130134.GC24757@xi.wantstofly.org> <20041020151448.51209278.davem@davemloft.net> <20041020223547.GJ29583@xi.wantstofly.org> <20041020155352.1c9b70f6.davem@davemloft.net> <20041020230405.GE995@wotan.suse.de> <20041020160728.1d5a337e.davem@davemloft.net> <20041020232719.GG995@wotan.suse.de> <20041020164241.5f29cea5.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Andi Kleen , buytenh@wantstofly.org, netdev@oss.sgi.com Return-path: To: "David S. Miller" In-Reply-To: <20041020164241.5f29cea5.davem@davemloft.net> Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org David S. Miller wrote: > On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 01:27:19 +0200 > Andi Kleen wrote: > > >>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. > > > Nope, Solaris's TCB is still 3 times the size of ours. > > BSD's is about the same size, yet they lack most of the > congestion control and ECN functionality we have. That doesn't mean we should keep trying to get to their level ;) /me goes back to his pile of sk_buff layer header pointers patches :-) - Arnaldo