netdev - Re: [PATCH] tcp: /proc/net/tcp rto,ato values not scaled properly

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Message-Id: <20080620.120526.246965779.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Fri, 20 Jun 2008 12:05:26 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	shemminger@...tta.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tcp: /proc/net/tcp rto,ato values not scaled properly

From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2008 11:56:03 -0700

> I found another case where we are sending information to userspace
> in the wrong HZ scale.  This should have been fixed back in 2.5 :-(
> 
> This means an ABI change but as it stands there is no way for an application
> like ss to get the right value.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>

Agree with your patch, but 'ss' should be getting this kind of info
from netlink not procfs, right?

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