On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 09:47:42PM +0000, Thomas Graf wrote: > On 11/16/12 at 11:39am, Neil Horman wrote: > > Yes, I think this is good, I still don't like the idea of having to do these via > > an ioctl, but I suppose it fits well enough. > > I'm with you on this. I have started scribbling notes on paper for > a netlink based stats retriever. We should discuss this at some > point making sure we get everyone on board with interests in this > and solve this nice and clean for everyone to enjoy. > Agreed, I was also doodling out some protocol format and kernel API ideas for this. We have a short week due to Thanksgiving here next week, but why don't I email you after the holiday and we can exchange thoughts? I think a netlink stats protocol would be a great way to solve the process-private/global access problem. > I guess the ioctl is the best we can do as long as we don't have > the above. > Agreed, it will do, and if we do a good job with the kernel API for the netlink idea above, maybe we can even inherit existing stats transparently. Neil -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-sctp" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
