netdev - Re: TCP event tracking via netlink...

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Message-ID: <20071205144843.GB2623@2ka.mipt.ru>
Date:	Wed, 5 Dec 2007 17:48:43 +0300
From:	Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@....mipt.ru>
To:	John Heffner <jheffner@....edu>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, ilpo.jarvinen@...sinki.fi,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: TCP event tracking via netlink...

Hi.

On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 09:11:01AM -0500, John Heffner (jheffner@....edu) wrote:
> >Maybe if we want to get really fancy we can have some more-expensive
> >debug mode where detailed specific events get generated via some
> >macros we can scatter all over the place.  This won't be useful
> >for general user problem analysis, but it will be excellent for
> >developers.
> >
> >Let me know if you think this is useful enough and I'll work on
> >an implementation we can start playing with.
> 
> 
> FWIW, sounds similar to what these guys are doing with SIFTR for FreeBSD:
> http://caia.swin.edu.au/urp/newtcp/tools.html
> http://caia.swin.edu.au/reports/070824A/CAIA-TR-070824A.pdf

And even more similar to this patch from Samir Bellabes of Mandriva:
http://lwn.net/Articles/202255/

-- 
	Evgeniy Polyakov
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