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

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Date:   Thu, 3 Oct 2019 07:47:55 +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

On Thu, Oct 3, 2019 at 1:14 AM Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com> wrote:
> I would rather use a new getsockopt() to fetch this specific data,
> instead of making TCP_INFO bigger for everyone :/
>
> ss command can dump millions of sockets in busy hosts, we need to be
> careful of TCP_INFO size.

Thanks Eric for your advices. I will see how I can come back with a
second proposition.
-- 
William