Linux-Kernel Archive: Re: RFC: per-socket statistics on receive Re: RFC: per-socket statistics on received/dropped packets From: Horst von Brand (vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl) Date: Wed Jun 12 2002 - 07:11:45 EST Next message: Benjamin Herrenschmidt: "Re: PCI DMA to small buffers on cache-incoherent arch" Previous message: Oliver Neukum: "Re: PCI DMA to small buffers on cache-incoherent arch" Next in thread: Lincoln Dale: "Re: RFC: per-socket statistics on received/dropped packets" Reply: Lincoln Dale: "Re: RFC: per-socket statistics on received/dropped packets" Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ] [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?
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