From: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: subramanian.vijay@gmail.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] tcp: Fix bug in ofo queue pruning MIB stats
Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2012 15:10:41 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F038AF1.3040307@hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111221.221511.1067604757446412302.davem@davemloft.net>
On 12/21/2011 07:15 PM, David Miller wrote:
> From: Vijay Subramanian<subramanian.vijay@gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2011 17:14:05 -0800
>
>> If the counter is tracking the right thing, is it worth fixing
>> netstat?
>
> Probably.
>
> The thing is, I can see both intepretations being useful.
>
> If we count packets, we can't tell that OFO pruning happened 4 times
> vs. we pruned 4 packets.
>
> But if you want to know the "extent" to which OFO pruning occurs, then
> you want the packet count.
Starting from the premise that the *primary* goal of netstat is to allow
end users/admins to know about packet loss events and how they correlate
with retransmissions, were I to have a "vote" it would be "count the
packets."
rick jones
prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-03 23:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-12-21 23:50 [PATCH net-next] tcp: Fix bug in ofo queue pruning MIB stats Vijay Subramanian
2011-12-22 0:33 ` David Miller
2011-12-22 1:14 ` Vijay Subramanian
2011-12-22 3:15 ` David Miller
2012-01-03 23:10 ` Rick Jones [this message]
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