netdev - Re: [PATCH 3/4] tcp: metrics: Delete all entries matching a certain destination

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Date:	Mon, 06 Jan 2014 16:10:27 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	christoph.paasch@...ouvain.be
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, eric.dumazet@...il.com, ja@....bg
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] tcp: metrics: Delete all entries matching a
 certain destination

From: Christoph Paasch <christoph.paasch@...ouvain.be>
Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2014 10:18:23 +0100

> Do you mean that if no source-IP is given in the netlink command that all
> entries matching the dst should be deleted or rather only one of them (and that it
> would be non-deterministic which one)?

You would delete all of them, it's the only way to stay compatible with
the current code.

> Because, if I delete all of them, then "ip tcp_metrics flush PREFIX" of
> today's iproute2 will complain, because iproute2 expects that for each entry of
> "ip tcp_metrics show" a delete-call must be done.
> 
> But, the non-deterministic case also feels a bit odd to me.

iproute2 should not expect that if it doesn't specify a specific
source address, in fact it doesn't even know how to currently.  I
can't think of any other reasonable behavior.
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