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From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
To: Jason Xing <kerneljasonxing@gmail.com>
Cc: davem@davemloft.net, kuba@kernel.org, pabeni@redhat.com,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Jason Xing <kernelxing@tencent.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net-sysfs: display two backlog queue len separately
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2023 10:33:52 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANn89iLWTie6bZZR3fkuOPfVWgjmiV9er_6MPbbcM2AE13ZQLQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAL+tcoCsQ18ae+hUwqFigerJQfhrusuOOC63Wc+ZGyGWEvSFBQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Mar 13, 2023 at 10:16 AM Jason Xing <kerneljasonxing@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Thanks for the guidance. Scaling is a good way to go really. But I
> just would like to separate these two kinds of limits to watch them
> closely. More often we cannot decide to adjust accurately which one
> should be adjusted. Time squeeze may not be clear and we cannot
> randomly write a larger number into both proc files which may do harm
> to some external customers unless we can show some proof to them.
>
> Maybe I got something wrong. If adding some tracepoints for those
> limits in softnet_data is not elegant, please enlighten me :)
>

I dunno, but it really looks like you are re-discovering things that
we dealt with about 10 years ago.

I wonder why new ways of tracing stuff are needed nowadays, while ~10
years ago nothing
officially put and maintained forever in the kernel was needed.

  reply	other threads:[~2023-03-13 17:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-03-11 15:17 [PATCH net-next] net-sysfs: display two backlog queue len separately Jason Xing
2023-03-12 19:02 ` Simon Horman
2023-03-13  1:55   ` Jason Xing
2023-03-13  2:28     ` Stephen Hemminger
2023-03-13  2:42       ` Jason Xing
2023-03-13  9:03       ` Jason Xing
2023-03-13 12:11     ` Simon Horman
2023-03-13 12:19       ` Jason Xing
2023-03-13 12:34 ` Eric Dumazet
2023-03-13 13:15   ` Jason Xing
2023-03-13 15:59     ` Eric Dumazet
2023-03-13 17:15       ` Jason Xing
2023-03-13 17:33         ` Eric Dumazet [this message]
2023-03-14  1:54           ` Jason Xing

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