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Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2011 13:45:53 -0500 (EST) From: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> To: xemul@...allels.com Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/5] inet_diag: Extend the meminfo report From: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...allels.com> Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2011 17:38:40 +0400 > Add the backlog length and wmem and rmem buffers limits. > With this the TCP memory info is full and can be analyzed. > > Few words about extending the existing structure. The nla engine stores lengths of > fields and the nla parser will parse the new format successfully (checked on the ss > tool). But new apps will have to take this field's length into account. Hopefully > this is acceptable price for not introducing another ext bit and structure. > > Singed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...allels.com> I think you'll need to add a new extension, rather than create this incompatability. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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