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From: William Dauchy <wdauchy@gmail.com>
To: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: NETDEV <netdev@vger.kernel.org>, "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tcp: add tsval and tsecr to TCP_INFO
Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2019 00:54:15 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJ75kXZT1Mt_=dqG+YEZHpzDLUZaPK=Nep=S85t9V+cT1TNMfA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <025bcf1e-b7d4-5fa2-ec68-074c62b9d63c@gmail.com>

Hello Eric,

On Thu, Oct 3, 2019 at 12:33 AM Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/2/19 3:10 PM, William Dauchy wrote:
> Reporting the last recorded values is really not good,
> a packet capture will give you all this information in a non
> racy way.

Thank you for your quick answer.
In my use case I use it on a http server where I tag my requests with
such informations coming from tcp, which later helps to diagnose some
issues and create some useful metrics to give me a general signal.
Does it still sound like an invalid use case?

Best regards,
-- 
William

  reply	other threads:[~2019-10-02 22:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-10-02 22:10 [PATCH] tcp: add tsval and tsecr to TCP_INFO William Dauchy
2019-10-02 22:33 ` Eric Dumazet
2019-10-02 22:54   ` William Dauchy [this message]
2019-10-02 23:14     ` Eric Dumazet
2019-10-03  5:47       ` William Dauchy
2019-10-26 18:45 ` [PATCH v2] tcp: add timestamp options fetcher William Dauchy
2019-10-26 20:42   ` Eric Dumazet

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