netdev - Re: [PATCH ] net: frag: print frag_mem_limit value in sockstat proc file

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Date:   Tue, 29 Aug 2017 16:04:01 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     liujian56@...wei.com
Cc:     kuznet@....inr.ac.ru, yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org, brouer@...hat.com,
        fw@...len.de, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH ] net: frag: print frag_mem_limit value in sockstat
 proc file

From: <liujian56@...wei.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2017 21:05:34 +0800

> From: liujian <liujian56@...wei.com>
> 
> From 6d7b857d5( net: use lib/percpu_counter API for fragmentation mem
> accounting),
> frag_mem_limit and sum_frag_mem_limit have different value if there are
> multiple NIC RX CPU.
> Print frag_mem_limit value, then we can get more debug info.
> 
> Signed-off-by: liujian <liujian56@...wei.com>

Sorry, I don't think it is justified to change the deprecated procfs
output just for this.

Use tracepoints and other similar facilities to debug situations
like this if you like.