netdev - Re: [PATCH v3] net-netlink: Add a new attribute to expose TOS values via netlink

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Date:	Wed, 12 Oct 2011 06:31:09 +0200
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	MuraliRaja Muniraju <muralira@...gle.com>
Cc:	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@....inr.ac.ru>,
	James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>,
	Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>,
	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] net-netlink: Add a new attribute to expose TOS
 values via netlink

Le mardi 11 octobre 2011 à 21:16 -0700, MuraliRaja Muniraju a écrit :
> Eric,
>      I think it would be useful to expose the values this way.
>      I shall make the changes to add TCLASS for ipv6 in the description.
> 
>      Regarding the TIME_WAIT state, I think it would be better of not
> exposing the values because there would hardly be anything to transmit
> during this time.
> 

My remark had nothing to do with your patch actually :

We dont store TOS/TCLASS on TIME_WAIT sockets, so you cannot report
value in inet_diag.

But we do send packets on behalf of TIME_WAIT sockets ;)

Think about ACK messages. They probably are sent with a 0 TOS/TCLASS
field... I am not sure its a problem or not.



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