From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Horst von Brand Subject: Re: RFC: per-socket statistics on received/dropped packets Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 08:11:45 -0400 Sender: owner-netdev@oss.sgi.com Message-ID: References: Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@oss.sgi.com Return-path: To: Ben Greear In-Reply-To: Message from Ben Greear of "Tue, 11 Jun 2002 23:26:40 MST." <3D06E9A0.5060801@candelatech.com> List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org [Cc:'s stripped] Ben Greear said: > Pekka Savola wrote: > > Just to chime in my support (not that I don't think anyone needs it), I > > think socket-based counters are An Extremely Bad Idea. [...] > If they are useful to some people, and have zero performance affect on others > (due to being a configurable kernel feature), then what is your > complaint? That it adds code, which impacts _everybody_ futzing around in that area, specially if it is a configurable option (this means multiplying the possible configurations to be tested). > I see two reasons left to dislike this feature: > > 1) General increase in #ifdef'd code. This actually seems like > a pretty good argument, but I haven't seen anyone mention it > specifically. Right. > 2) General dislike for a feature that one personally has no use for. > Seems to be Dave's main (professed) excuse. General dislike for adding features of _extremely_ limited (debugging!) use? -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile Fax: +56 32 797513