netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 0/4] tracking TCP data delivery and ECN stats

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Date:   Thu, 19 Apr 2018 13:52:16 -0700
From:   Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@...gle.com>
To:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:     netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@...gle.com>,
        Soheil Hassas Yeganeh <soheil@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/4] tracking TCP data delivery and ECN stats

On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 10:07 AM, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> wrote:
>
> From: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@...gle.com>
> Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2018 23:18:45 -0700
>
> > This patch series improve tracking the data delivery status
> >   1. minor improvement on SYN data
> >   2. accounting bytes delivered with CE marks
> >   3. exporting the delivery stats to applications
> >
> > s.t. users can get better sense of TCP performance at per host,
> > per connection, and even per application message level.
>
> Definitely useful, so series applied.
Thanks.

TCP socket is getting bigger and bigger :-( I am cooking a patch set
to simplify loss recovery that should help conserving the space.

>
> But it is not lost upon me that slowly over time tcp sockets are
> bloating quite a bit...