netdev - Re: [PATCH] tcp: Fix slowness in read /proc/net/tcp

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Message-ID: <87eigjgrcw.fsf@basil.nowhere.org>
Date:	Mon, 07 Jun 2010 10:49:03 +0200
From:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc:	Tom Herbert <therbert@...gle.com>, davem@...emloft.net,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, Yakov Lerner <iler.ml@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tcp: Fix slowness in read /proc/net/tcp

Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com> writes:
>
> BTW, another problem of /proc/net/tcp is the buffer size used by netstat
> utility : 1024 bytes instead of PAGE_SIZE, making O(N^2) behavior even
> more palpable.

That would be easily fixable in netstat.

But I'm not sure net-tools is still maintained as a separate package,
afaik the standard procedure is to submit a patch to a big distribution
and the others take it from there.

-Andi
-- 
ak@...ux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only.
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