On Thu, 4 Aug 2022 10:00:37 -0700 Eric Dumazet wrote: > On Thu, Aug 4, 2022 at 9:58 AM Adel Abouchaev <adel.abushaev@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Looking at > > https://github.com/shemminger/iproute2/blob/main/misc/ss.c#L589 the ss.c > > still uses proc/. > > Only for legacy reasons. That but in all honesty also the fact that a proc file is pretty easy and self-describing while the historic netlink families are undocumented code salads. > ss -t for sure will use netlink first, then fallback to /proc > > New counters should use netlink, please. Just to be sure I'm not missing anything - we're talking about some new netlink, right? Is there an existing place for "overall prot family stats" over netlink today?
