Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 10 Jun 2002 22:03:25 +1000 | From | Lincoln Dale <> | Subject | Re: RFC: per-socket statistics on received/dropped packets |
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At 09:34 PM 9/06/2002 -0700, David S. Miller wrote: >Every argument I hear is one out of lazyness. And that is not a >reason to add something. Simply put, I don't want to add all of this >per-socket counter bumping that only, at best, 1 tenth of 1 percent >of people will use. This means that the rest of the world eats the >overhead just for this small group that actually uses it.
would you be willing to accept a patch that enables per-socket accounting with a CONFIG_ option?
to my mind, i can see a number of perfectly valid scenarios. one is for streaming-media applications which could use retransmissions as an indication to buffer more data and/or switch to a different bitrate.
another is for a http proxy which has multiple outgoing interfaces which are multihomed via different providers (and some via simplex satellite). retransmissions woud be a nice metric to use for determining the weightings between using different interfaces.
cheers,
lincoln.
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