netdev - RE: Information about SCTP patch

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Date:	Wed, 23 Jul 2014 11:55:20 +0000
From:	"Padiyar, Prasad (NSN - IN/Bangalore)" <prasad.padiyar@....com>
To:	ext Michele Baldessari <michele@...syn.org>
CC:	"linux-sctp@...r.kernel.org" <linux-sctp@...r.kernel.org>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Kumar, Sumit 11. (NSN - IN/Bangalore)" <sumit.11.kumar@....com>,
	kishan simha <ksimha123@...il.com>
Subject: RE: Information about SCTP patch

Hi Michele,

Thanks for your time and reply.

We here have a requirement to implement a CLI to get these stats.
And one of the options we thought to use was /proc files to get these stats.

Going through the mail chain of this patch (http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-sctp/msg01813.html) , I came across this.
" socket option is preferable as /proc doesn't scale very well as number of associations grows."

Here I am just curious to know how much "is the number of associations" referred to?

Thanks & Regards,
Prasad 

-----Original Message-----
From: ext Michele Baldessari [mailto:michele@...syn.org] 
Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2014 1:33 PM
To: kishan simha
Cc: linux-sctp@...r.kernel.org; netdev@...r.kernel.org; Padiyar, Prasad (NSN - IN/Bangalore); Kumar, Sumit 11. (NSN - IN/Bangalore)
Subject: Re: Information about SCTP patch

Hi Kishan,

On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 02:08:21PM +0530, kishan simha wrote:
> We are trying to integrate this patch to a little older kernel 2.6.34.13.

This is trivial as we've done so for RHEL 6.5 already.

> Additionally we are planning to give a proc file interface to display the stats.
> 
> I came across a review comment for your patch, where the proc solution
> was rejected.
> 
> Can you provide some information on why the solution was rejected ?

It was preferred to do it via an API extension, similar to how
Solaris does it. And, I believe, the /proc interface for these kind of
things is discouraged.

regards,
Michele
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Michele Baldessari            <michele@...syn.org>
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