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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: Markus.Elfring@web.de
Cc: johunt@akamai.com, dsahern@gmail.com, stephen@networkplumber.org,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ss: Checking efficient analysis for network connections
Date: Sat, 01 Jun 2019 16:48:38 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190601.164838.1496580524715275443.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3d1c67c8-7dfe-905b-4548-dae23592edc5@web.de>

From: Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@web.de>
Date: Sat, 1 Jun 2019 10:36:40 +0200

> I imagine then that it would be also nicer to perform filtering based on
> configurable constraints at the data source directly.
> How much can Linux help more in this software area?
> How do you think about such ideas?

If you use netlink operations directly, you can have the kernel filter
on various criteria and only get the socket entries you are interested
in.

This whole discussion has zero to do with what text format 'ss' outputs.

  reply	other threads:[~2019-06-01 23:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-05-01  1:38 [PATCH v2] ss: add option to print socket information on one line Josh Hunt
2019-05-02 23:11 ` David Ahern
2019-05-30  9:11 ` Markus Elfring
2019-06-01  8:36 ` ss: Checking efficient analysis for network connections Markus Elfring
2019-06-01 23:48   ` David Miller [this message]
2019-06-02  5:40     ` Markus Elfring
2019-06-13 14:40     ` Markus Elfring
2019-07-23  8:25     ` Markus Elfring
2019-09-16 10:32     ` ss: Checking selected network ports Markus Elfring
2019-09-16 10:32       ` Markus Elfring
2019-10-22  6:00     ` [RFC] " Markus Elfring
2019-10-22  6:00       ` Markus Elfring

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