netdev - Re: [PATCH] tcp: add tsval and tsecr to TCP

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Message-ID: <CAJ75kXZT1Mt_=dqG+YEZHpzDLUZaPK=Nep=S85t9V+cT1TNMfA@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Thu, 3 Oct 2019 00:54:15 +0200
From:   William Dauchy <wdauchy@...il.com>
To:     Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc:     NETDEV <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tcp: add tsval and tsecr to TCP_INFO

Hello Eric,

On Thu, Oct 3, 2019 at 12:33 AM Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com> wrote:
> On 10/2/19 3:10 PM, William Dauchy wrote:
> Reporting the last recorded values is really not good,
> a packet capture will give you all this information in a non
> racy way.

Thank you for your quick answer.
In my use case I use it on a http server where I tag my requests with
such informations coming from tcp, which later helps to diagnose some
issues and create some useful metrics to give me a general signal.
Does it still sound like an invalid use case?

Best regards,
-- 
William