From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-1.web.codeaurora.org [10.30.226.201]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 486B132FF74 for ; Thu, 16 Oct 2025 16:58:43 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1760633924; cv=none; b=PEPU9MNCXHjTYWhDiThzw3U5Bks6JXdww7GA8lA2cwXXd35Cwyj21oDqxTczCiPgehBm4P9ZeYY4mT1FJ1qEPiuceRV0s+ruAoPtwYMdbN4rRCyvPui9GeXQ8LrNWIIIR4AwsJUF7pMrXguhJRmqd+UKBDtV4+pIOpPZXPVOHpo= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1760633924; c=relaxed/simple; bh=EoTmt3XVv4FgsbiT10WziGz+GgB71HkKxfgg14OhWZE=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version: Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To; b=kiCfX65uRh+XKSApEAfRDQFzdP+D/6w4CCSR7zevo5SuJQcFfJgsNSCYFqP7pDbNP57an+Km5jnHfMm/6kYR349Vef8TGNxfHNUra83lzfHdTFFVnf1gygnWynAYVf7XYZrGqm3X+kWogwDI8w0Mm58/PsuFS2ypPaFMRNu37Do= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b=S3t28COI; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b="S3t28COI" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 869A5C4CEFE; Thu, 16 Oct 2025 16:58:42 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=k20201202; t=1760633923; bh=EoTmt3XVv4FgsbiT10WziGz+GgB71HkKxfgg14OhWZE=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=S3t28COIEBpGw3TyM0Ggxy8QCXguRbRsbmkkP9RMkpOw5OSj1bqSfD9AVagcV3FsR n05lzK56QYkaBELRN3v0dSEZPIYtk5TWx3YrlpoNld27N+IrpQbx3Zs9KJ1XhiE9Zy euOl1gAcy+zFV7owi8Sc4Q0N7XPsDwq9FcJb9OUnSIyCpljbtNTxm4Ax6epTc6O7Xz onTh6hUb+z48KAILyzKxME6BFQ7Dx2dKNvaJpUlm47YOLeYuEDEiYjtaxcn2SHmfQc FRy1Vty3Lyowka60IECMZIgfwJMq+kGWSnI7HCt/HVlvNrZlIbRPkwANFLuxSyCMkR P571wm6lhhqZg== Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2025 17:58:40 +0100 From: Simon Horman To: Florian Westphal Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, Paolo Abeni , "David S. Miller" , Eric Dumazet , Jakub Kicinski Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: Kconfig: discourage drop_monitor enablement Message-ID: References: <20251016115147.18503-1-fw@strlen.de> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: netdev@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20251016115147.18503-1-fw@strlen.de> On Thu, Oct 16, 2025 at 01:51:47PM +0200, Florian Westphal wrote: > Quoting Eric Dumazet: > "I do not understand the fascination with net/core/drop_monitor.c [..] > misses all the features, flexibility, scalability that 'perf', > eBPF tracing, bpftrace, .... have today." > > Reword DROP_MONITOR kconfig help text to clearly state that its not > related to perf-based drop monitoring and that its safe to disable > this unless support for the older netlink-based tools is needed. > > Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal I think it is always good to guide people in the right direction. Reviewed-by: Simon Horman