netdev - Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] Tracepoint for tcp retransmission

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Message-ID: <20120206162136.GJ27935@redhat.com>
Date:	Mon, 6 Feb 2012 11:21:36 -0500
From:	"Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@...hat.com>
To:	Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com>
Cc:	Hagen Paul Pfeifer <hagen@...u.net>,
	"Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@...stic.org>,
	Satoru Moriya <satoru.moriya@....com>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"tgraf@...radead.org" <tgraf@...radead.org>,
	"stephen.hemminger@...tta.com" <stephen.hemminger@...tta.com>,
	"eric.dumazet@...il.com" <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
	Seiji Aguchi <seiji.aguchi@....com>, fche@...rceware.org,
	mathieu.desnoyers@...ymtl.ca, rostedt@...dmis.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] Tracepoint for tcp retransmission

Hi -

On Mon, Feb 06, 2012 at 10:53:05AM -0500, Neil Horman wrote:

> [...] If you're unfamiliar with them, netfilter hooks are those
> standard points in the network input/output/forwarding paths at
> which we can watch and maniupulate network traffic.  [...]

Aha, nf_register_hook and friends.  Thanks for the pointer.

> > Does this mean that this netfilter hook mechanism is sufficient to
> > adapt to the current/future diversity of behaviors?  Why not make
> > *that* into a tracepoint then, so perf/stap scripts could get at it in
> > userspace?

> I suppose you could.  [...]  I'm suggesting a kernel module because
> then you wouldn't have the performance overhead of moving all those
> frames to user space.

(For what it's worth, if there were a tracepoint in the netfilter 
hook machinery, stap would be able to process the packets likewise,
in-kernel, with no kernel debuginfo installed.)

- FChE
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