netdev - Re: [RFC] addition of a dropped packet notification service

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Date:	Mon, 9 Feb 2009 21:21:34 +1100
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com>
Cc:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	davem@...emloft.net, kuznet@....inr.ac.ru, pekkas@...core.fi,
	jmorris@...ei.org, yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] addition of a dropped packet notification service

On Sat, Feb 07, 2009 at 12:49:32PM -0500, Neil Horman wrote:
>
> Well, as I mentioned, its totally incomplete.  I only posted it, so that you
> could see an exemplar of how I wanted to use tracepoints to dynamically
> intercept various in kernel events so that I could gather drop notifications. Of
> course several other tracepoints will be needed to capture other classes of drop
> (IPv6 stats, arp queue overflows, qdisc drops, etc).

FWIW it sounds pretty reasonable to me.  Although I'm still unsure
on what impact all these trace points will have on the maintainence
of our source code.

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